White-Collar Crime

Ellex Klavins experts have extensive experience in defending, representing and providing legal assistance to international and local companies and their management in issues related to economic and financial crime, online fraud and corruption (“white-collar crime”). This accrued experience and allows Ellex Klavins professionals to provide our clients with a tailormade approach, thereby helping to protect their interests before Latvian law enforcement agencies and supervisory authorities, prosecutor’s offices, courts, as well as international law enforcement agencies.
Ellex Klavins provides legal assistance to business clients on a wide range of white-collar crime matters, especially on recovery of embezzled funds and investigations of allegedly unlawful actions of companies’ employees or management.
The application of coercive measures against legal entities and companies is becoming increasingly widespread, and the experience that we have acquired is unique in these matters that are the first of their kind.

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Andris Lazdiņš

Associate Partner

Co-Head of Dispute Resolution Practice

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Daiga Zivtiņa

Partner

Co-Head of Dispute Resolution Practice

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Key projects in the field

We assisted a major Baltic sports retailer in a fraud scheme aimed at the client

Assisting the client in a debt recovery case that involved a potential fraud scheme aimed against the client. Filing a successful application to the court for freezing the assets of the former owner and the General manager of the client’s customer. In addition, successfully filing a submission to the police for initiation of criminal proceedings against the perpetrators of the criminal offense.

The client was consulted by partner Peteris Dalderis and associate partner Andris Lazdins.

Ellex Klavins advised a foreign bank in the court proceedings in Luxembourg

Assisting the client and its Luxembourgian advisors with drafting an expert opinion on the applicable regulations of the Latvian law regarding the client’s court proceedings in Luxembourg. The Luxembourgian court proceedings originated from the decision the Latvian Criminal court stating that the funds that had been originally pledged with the client by a now insolvent Latvian bank are proceedings of crime.

The client was represented by partner Daiga Zivtina and associate partner Andris Lazdins.

We are advising one of the world’s largest IT companies in an investigation of the client’s product retailers

Assistance to one of the world’s largest IT companies in a complex investigation regarding potential wrongdoings of the client’s licensed retailers. The client had suspicions that the retailers may have committed several breaches in re-selling of the client’s licenses. The case has dispute resolution, public procurement law and competition law implications.

The client is represented by the senior partner Filips Klavins and associate partners Andris Lazdins and Maris Brizgo.

We are advising a major real estate developer in criminal proceedings regarding arrest of a property

Legal advice to a client in the criminal proceedings before the Latvian police regarding the arrest of the client’s real estate. The client’s real estate was arrested due to the claims of an individual that he lost the ownership of the property due to a fraud. The case is very specific and important from the perspective of building future criminal law practice as the client purchased the property from a seller who bought it in a public auction. There is no dispute in the case that the client and the seller of the property did not commit any offense against the victim - the original owner of the property.

The client is advised by Ellex Klavins associate partner Andris Lazdins.

Our team advised a client on a case involving international sanctions

Providing assistance to a multinational corporation in a dispute with client’s business partner in relation to international sanctions being imposed on the business partner that precluded it from making and receiving payments in the Latvian banking system.

Ellex Klavins has an extensive experience in advising clients on cybercrime cases

Advising clients on various cybercrime cases and fraudulent activities of the top managers of the companies and on matters related to corruption in public tenders.

For example, our experts have represented and advised one of the largest international corporations in a global internet fraud affecting in a complex criminal matter in respect of a fraud where the client has suffered loss in the amount of USD 23 million. The client’s assets were successfully recovered.

Furthermore, we have advised a Canadian company regarding delivery of goods. The matter involved complex legal matters regarding the impact of an internet fraud on the fulfilment of the contractual party’s contractual obligations and the legal characterization of the fraud as the cause of potential indirect losses to third parties.

We have assisted a major foreign logistics company in an internet fraud case. By performing illegal activities and using fake identities the perpetrators of the cyber fraud scheme had succeeded in persuading the client to make a transfer of money to a UK company’s bank account in Latvia. We successfully represented the client before the Latvian police and court and as a result the client achieved recovery of the defrauded assets.

We assisted a client in an action against its former management in an embezzlement and Intellectual Property theft case

Assisting a client - a major foreign IT company – in a complex dispute with the former management of the Latvian subsidiary of the client. The case had both the criminal law and civil law implications and interaction. Assistance to the client in the investigation of the activities of the former management and representing the client in various state authorities. In addition, drafting the application to the police, the statement of claim to the court and represented the client before the court in the litigation against the former managers.

The client was consulted by partner Peteris Dalderis and associate partner Andris Lazdins.

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Consumer & Retail Energy & Infrastructure Financials & Investments Industrials Life Science Real Estate & Construction Transport Technology, Media and Communications