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Cobalt and Ellex Advise on Taba Invest and SBA Urban JV for Kaunas Project Development

Cobalt and Ellex Advise on Taba Invest and SBA Urban JV for Kaunas Project Development

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Cobalt has advised Taba Invest on the development project for a 3.3-hectare area on the left bank of the river Nemunas in Kaunas through a joint venture with the SBA Group. Ellex advised the SBA Group.

As SBA Urban is also developing another 2.5-hectare plot in the Nemunaiciai district, according to Cobalt, "the companies applied to the Competition Council for a permit to establish a joint venture. If approved, each of the partners would own 50% of the shares of the newly established company."

Taba Invest is an investment company that performs real estate management activities and provides hotel and catering services.

The SBA Group is a Vilnius-headquartered investment company focusing on the furniture, textile, modular construction, and real estate sectors. SBA Urban is a real estate developer.

"We believe in the potential of Kaunas, and especially the left bank of the Nemunas River and, as a financial investor in the project, we have assessed that organic development of the entire territory will create more value for us and our future clients than a spontaneous or eclectic one," Taba Invest CEO Tautvydas Barstys commented. "However, in order to start work with our partners, we need to get the Competition Council’s permission to set up a joint venture."

The Cobalt team included Managing Partner Irmantas Norkus and Partners Rasa Zasciurinskaite and Arturas Kojala.

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.