Practice areas:

Mergers and Acquisitions, Competition Law, Banking and Finance, Insurance, Capital Markets and Derivatives, Company Law, Commercial Law and Contracts, Employment and Immigration Law

Career:

Since 2009 senior associate at Grunte & Cers
2005-2009 senior associate at Loze, Grunte & Cers
2003-2005 senior associate at Grunte & Cers
2002-2003 associate at Grunte & Cers
1999-2002 legal assistant at Grunte & Cers

Education:

2006 Riga Graduate School of Law (Mag. iur.)
2003 Department of Law, University of Latvia (LL.B., LL.M.)
1999 Latvian Academy of Arts (B.A.)

Publications:

Has published several articles about Banking and Finance, Insurance, Competition law, Company law and Commercial law and contracts, including:
The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Cartels & Leniency, Latvia - 2009
Manual of Contracts, "Dienas Bizness" - 2008, 2009

Has made a number of presentations on M&A, Competition, Company law, Commercial law and contracts, including:
Corporate governance in a distressed context, Helsinki - June 2009
Influence of amendments to the Commercial Law on the current and future commercial transactions, Riga - March 2009
Influence of amendments to the Competition Law on retail trade, Riga - November 2008
Comments to the new regulation of the Competition Law, Riga - July 2008
Cross-border mergers, Riga, June 2008

TLS Alliance on the deadlines for review of disputes in the Baltic states, Dienas bizness - May 2010
Andra Rubene on the legal services quality, Dienas bizness - May 2010
Andra Rubene on the most important nuances of the amendments to the Commercial Law, Dienas bizness - February 2010
Andra Rubene on reasons why it is important to consider whether transactions provide for business transfer, ifinanses.lv - January 2010
Andra Rubene on cartels between competitors and possibilities to get remission of penalty, RigaNow! - January 2010
Competition council can be 'negotiated' with, "Dienas Bizness" - August 2009
Jurisdiction update: Latvia – insurance, complinet.com - May 2009
Enterprise Register creates obstacles for business persons, "Dienas Bizness", Saldo - April 2009
Franshize – one of the solutions in the current situation, "Dienas Bizness", Saldo - December 2008
Application or forcing of ungrounded and unfair payments, "Jurista Vards" - September 2008
Payments for delivery of goods for a newly opened retail trading place, "Jurista Vards" - September 2008

Member:

Latvian Bar Association (admitted 2002)

Language:

Latvian, English, Russian