
Sorainen
We are an international business law firm working as one integrated team for a single goal – helping clients succeed in business. With 44 partners and more than 240 lawyers and tax specialists, we have the resources to support our clients on all business law and tax issues involving our region. Founded in 1995, the firm has worked on many significant mandates for international and local clients. Here you can find our webinars in podcast form.
Episodes
177 episodes
ENG I Helping clients succeed in the ESG transition: unwrapping CS3D
This webinar, organised by Sorainen, will break down CS3D and explore its impact on businesses, supply chains, and compliance strategies. We discussed:The legal implications of CS3...
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Sport kohtus – äärmiselt omapärased mängureeglid ehk millal satub Eesti sportlane Rahvusvahelisse spordikohtusse (CAS)?
Spordikohtu „mängureeglitest“ räägib Soraineni spordiõiguse ekspert Polina Tšernjak.Episood on salvestatud 11.02.2025 Erinevate Tubade Klubis toimunud spordiõiguse ärihommikul „Spordiõigus: kuidas teha nii, et mänguväljakul või...
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ENG I Helping clients succeed in the ESG transition: ESG and Tax
This webinar, organised by Sorainen, will explore the important role of tax in advancing ESG initiatives, examining how tax strategies can align with and support broader sustainability objectives and vice...
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ENG I Labour market restrictions: distorting supply and demand or protecting investments and trade secrets?
In today’s business landscape, companies often struggle with finding the right balance between protecting their interests and ensuring compliance with the increasingly complicated legal requirements. While competition law enc...
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ENG I How to make your family business successful through generations? Insights from the first pan-Baltic survey
Family businesses are vital to the economy, driving employment and innovation, but face unique challenges like balancing family dynamics, succession planning, and staying competitive, making them more vulnerable than non-family businesses. Addr...
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ENG I Navigating the legal landscape in the Life Sciences & Healthcare sector
The Life Sciences & Healthcare sector faces evolving legal challenges due to new legislation, such as the EU medical devices regulations and the AI Act, alongside estab...
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ENG I Mastering DORA regulation
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a new European framework for effective and comprehensive management of digital risks in financial markets. It aims to ensure that financial entities are able to withstand, respond to and recover ...
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ENG I Helping clients succeed in the ESG transition: greening the construction sector
The Sorainen ESG service line is dedicated to helping clients navigate the constantly changing landscape of sustainability-related regulation.On this we...
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ENG I How to audit your intellectual property?
Special webinar, organised by Sorainen and dedicated to World Intellectual Property Day. Among speakers – Sorainen experts from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. They covered following topics:<...
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ENG I The AI Act in practice: what it means for your business
This time we've focused on the European Union (EU) Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act),...
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ENG I Wind Energy Academy webinar #1: An Introduction to Wind Farm Development in Latvia
Latvia’s wind energy potential is significant, both for onshore and offshore, but the country is lagging behind its neighbors and others. Only 137.4 MW of capacity have been installed, with wind farm projects taking too long to build. The webin...
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ESG Talks 3: Carbon Footprint
Tiina Pajula from Afry explains about climate change and carbon at corporations: · Megatrends and drivers· Climate and carbon as a part of wider s...
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Data protection webinar discussion. The view of the three Baltic states.
How to market without getting caught by the supervisory authorities. The view of the three Baltic states. Discussion from Data protection webinar, Latvia edition.
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ENG | Tax Stories – Episode 37 – Porus Kaka (India)
In this Tax Stories episode I chat with Porus Kaka who is a tax world celebrity, a former president of IFA globally, now Honorary President, ...
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ENG | Tax Stories Podcast – Episode 36 – Pekka Puolakka (FIN)
Tax Stories Podcast – Episode 36 – Pekka Puolakka (FIN) – lessons from father and IOTIn this Tax Stories episode, Jānis chats with Pekka
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ENG | Tax Stories Podcast – Episode 34 – Simon Whitehead (JHA, UK)
Simon is ranked consistently among the leading individuals for tax litigation by the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners. He is a founding partner at Joseph Hage Aaronson, established 10 years ago. JHA is a boutique dispute resolution firm wh...
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ENG | Tax Stories - Episode 32 – Leonard Wagenaar (EY UK) – the art of making tax posts
Leonard Wagenaar is a director at EY UK office, mostly visible as M&A, PE and international tax expert. He was with a Big4 for 9 years, was also working for a bank, two private equity funds and his own consulting. Probably what makes Leonar...
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ENG | Tax Stories – Episode 30 – Christian Kaeser (Siemens, Germany)
Christian is a global head of tax @Siemens in charge of some 650 tax people, tax law professor & Dr., lecturing at Vienna and Freiburg Universities, president of IFA Germany, Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce Tax Commission,...
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ENG | Investors’ views of wind park acquisition. Erika Ščiogoleva
In the first Energy Club Latvia we have invited a guest speaker, expert with extensive experience in the wind park project development - Erika Ščiogoleva, head of Ignitis Renewables Latvia. Erika shares her insights into investors’ views of win...
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ENG | Zoning requirements in Latvia – how to be on the safe side? Andris Vilisons
Sorainen senior associate Andris Vilisons shares a legal overview of the zoning requirements: how developers can feel safe about zoning requirements for the development of wind parks, what the legal solution is in case site planning contradicts...
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ENG | Legal amendments to energy regulation Latvia. Viktorija Cherkas
Counsel Viktorija Cherkas, head of Sorainen’s Latvian Energy sector group, speaks about the latest amendments to legal regulation, which will have a direct impact on wind park development – what to be aware of, and which requirements allow simp...
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ENG | EC complaints as a lobbying tool. Joren Vuylsteke, Valentijn De Boe
Our guest speakers from Loyens & Loeff – associate, attorney-at-law Joren Vuylsteke and partner, attorney-at-law Valentijn De Boe introduced a number of case studies of complaints to European Commission. They also presented a schematic over...
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ENG | Tax Stories – Episode 27 – Allison Christians
Tax Stories Podcast – Episode 27 – Allison Christians (Canada)
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