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Cobalt and Walless Advise on Avena's Sale of Grain Trade Business to Scandagra

Cobalt and Walless Advise on Avena's Sale of Grain Trade Business to Scandagra

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Cobalt has advised Avena Nordic Grain on the sale of its Estonian and Lithuanian grain trade businesses to the Scandagra Group. Walless advised Scandagra on the deal.

According to Cobalt, Avena Nordic Grain is a subsidiary of the Apetit Group. Apetit is a food industry company firmly rooted in Finnish primary production. Apetit’s shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki.

The Scandagra Group is an agriculture company operating in the Baltics.

Cobalt’s team included Estonia-based Partners Peeter Kutman and Karina Paatsi, Specialist Counsel Jesse Kivisaari, and Senior Associate Heleri Tammiste and Lithuania-based Partner Juozas Rimas, Managing Associate Jovita Valatkaite, and Senior Associate Zygintas Voronavicius.

The Walless team included Managing Partner Dovile Burgiene and Senior Associate Domas Sileika.

Cobalt at a Glance

COBALT is a closely integrated alliance of top-tier law offices across the Baltics, uniting more than 250 attorneys and support staff. During 25 years of experience, we have become a strategic partner to our clients in handling both daily matters and complex large–scale transactions and disputes.

The firm’s broad spectrum of expertise and established position as the market leader gives a comprehensive basis for providing full-service business law advice.

Top international and regional businesses, financial institutions, state and local governments, and the region’s most promising start-ups are among our clients. We offer leading-edge solutions in key industry sectors: Consumer Products, Trade & Distribution, Real Estate & Construction, Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare, Energy & Utilities, Communications, Media & Technologies, Financial Services, Transport & Logistics.

COBALT has been named Baltic Law Firm of the Year 7 times receiving Chambers Europe, IFLR, The Lawyer and Mergermarket awards, and we are regularly listed amongst the top-performing M&A legal advisors in the Bloomberg, Refinitiv and Mergermarket deal tables. Recognized as the No.1 Lithuanian law firm in the Prospera Law Firm Review 2021 and No. 1 law firm in Latvia in 2022, 2020, 2019, and 2018 client satisfaction surveys. We were recognized as a Baltic-wide Law Firm of the Year at the 2022 Chambers Europe Awards ceremony and named the Baltic States Tax Firm of the Year and Pro Bono Firm of the Year at the annual ITR EMEA Tax Awards 2021 ceremony. 

More information on COBALT can be found at www.cobalt.legal.