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			<title>Successful TLS Alliance Open Golf tournament held in “Ozo Golf Club”, Riga</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/news/successful-tls-alliance-open-golf-tournament-held-in-ozo-golf-club-riga</link>
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			<pubDate>2010-09-09</pubDate>
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			<title>Inese Hazenfusa on the trends in concluding of marriage contracts, Dienas bizness</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/inese-hazenfusa-on-the-trends-in-concluding-of-marriage-contracts-dienas-bizness</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Grunte &amp; Cers senior associate Inese Hazenfusa comments on the trends in concluding of marriage contracts, that is, increase in quantity of the marriage contracts that frequently are aimed at protecting the personal property from the creditors. The lawyer turns attention of the readers to the importance of the time of concluding of the marriage contracts considering the challenge possibilities of the same.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-08-11</pubDate>
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			<title>Inese Hazenfusa on influence of internal changes in an undertaking on an employment agreement for a fixed period of time, iFinanses</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/inese-hazenfusa-on-influence-of-internal-changes-in-an-undertaking-on-an-employment-agreement-for-a-fixed-period-of-time-ifinanses</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Inese Hazenfusa, senior associate of Grunte &amp; Cers, analyses legal aspects of situations, when internal changes in an undertaking affect an employee with whom an employment agreement for a fixed period has been concluded, based on Clause 44.1.3 of the Labour Law, that governs substitution of an absent employee or an employee suspended from office, and also substitution of an employee whose full-time position has become vacant until a new employee has been engaged. Special focus is paid to the issue of amendments to an employment agreement where the term of the agreement is changed from fixed to unlimited period of time.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-08-10</pubDate>
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			<title>Grunte &amp; Cers team organises and participates in M&amp;A Student Camp 2010 in Vilnius</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/news/grunte-cers-team-organises-and-participates-in-ma-student-camp-2010-in-vilnius</link>
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			<pubDate>2010-07-09</pubDate>
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			<title>Andis Paunins on establishing of internet shops, Saldo</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/andis-paunins-on-establishing-of-internet-shops-saldo</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Andis Paunins, associate of Grunte &amp; Cers, reviews the possibilities of establishing internet shops and addresses the essential legal nuances, which should be considered when establishing an internet shop.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-06-29</pubDate>
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			<title>Nauris Grigals on application of value added tax to home-consumption, iFinanses.lv</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/nauris-grigals-on-application-of-value-added-tax-to-home-consumption-ifinanseslv</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Nauris Grigals, associate of Grunte &amp; Cers, reviews issues related to application of value added tax to home-consumption. The author explains the notion of home-consumption, specifying the criteria for determination of value of such transactions, on which the calculation of VAT depends, and accordingly – pretax amount to be deducted.

The lawyer turns attention of the readers to the topical issues of application of company car tax, anticipating that they will bring about new disputes and disagreements between the State revenue service and taxpayers.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-06-18</pubDate>
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			<title>Inese Hazenfusa on the amendments to the Commercial Law, Dienas bizness</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/inese-hazenfusa-on-the-amendments-to-the-commercial-law-dienas-bizness</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Inese Hazenfusa, senior associate of Grunte &amp; Cers, comments on the latest amendments to the Commercial Law in respect of the term of office of members of the executive institutions, encouraging third persons to ascertain rights of the representatives of their co-operation partners to undertake obligations on behalf of the respective business person.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-06-07</pubDate>
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			<title>Agnese Hartpenga on the amendments to the Procurement Laws, Dienas bizness</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/agnese-hartpenga-on-the-amendments-to-the-procurement-laws-dienas-bizness</link>
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			<pubDate>2010-06-07</pubDate>
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			<title>TLS Alliance on the deadlines for review of disputes in the Baltic states, Dienas bizness</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/on-the-deadlines</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The law firms of TLS Alliance - Grunte &amp; Cers (Latvia), Tark &amp; Co (Estonia) and Sutkiene, Pilkauskas &amp; Partners (Lithuania) – compare the deadlines for review of disputes between tax administrations and business persons in the Baltic states, concluding that they depend not only on the requirements of the particular country’s normative acts, complexity of disputes, but also on the case load in courts. 

The lawyers compare the appeal processes against decisions issued by tax administrations in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, establishing that in Estonia such process takes the least time, because taxpayers may choose to appeal the decision directly in court without turning to higher authorities of the tax administration. The research participants also assess possibilities to stay and suspend decisions adverse to business persons.

The comparison was made by Rolan Jankelevitsh, senior associate of Tark &amp; Co, Rokas Bukauskas, senior associate of Sutkiene, Pilkauskas &amp; Partners, and Andra Rubene, senior associate of Grunte &amp; Cers.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-05-27</pubDate>
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			<title>Andra Rubene on the legal services quality, Dienas bizness</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/legal-services-quality</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Andra Rubene, senior associate of Grunte &amp; Cers, comments on the legal services quality in Latvia, emphasising that lawyers, who are members of the Latvian Bar Association, are the “safe” choice, because their activities are supervised by the Bar Council.

Comparing the performance of lawyers in the capital and in the regions of Latvia A.Rubene believes that unlimited access to information has minimised the differences between Riga and regions.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-05-26</pubDate>
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			<title>Grunte &amp; Cers lawyers participated in seminar on the Cross-border litigation</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/news/participated-in-seminar</link>
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			<pubDate>2010-05-25</pubDate>
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			<title>Andra Rubene speaks in the conference of the Ministry of Justice Liability regulation in commercial law</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/news/a</link>
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			<pubDate>2010-05-21</pubDate>
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			<title>Grunte &amp; Cers team participates in Nordea Riga Marathon</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/news/grunte-cers-team-in-nordea-riga-marathon</link>
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			<pubDate>2010-05-21</pubDate>
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			<title>Inese Hazenfusa and Linda Strause in the role of judges participated in the Moot Court Competition on civil law organized by ELSA Latvia</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/news/inese-hazenfusa-and-linda-strause-in-the-role-of-judges-participated-in-the-moot-court-competition-on-civil-law-organized-by-elsa-latvia</link>
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			<pubDate>2010-05-18</pubDate>
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			<title>Inese Hazenfusa on deleting of enterprises which failed to re-register with the commercial register, Dienas bizness</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/inese-hazenfusa-on-deleting-of-enterprises-which-failed-to-re-register-with-the-commercial-register-dienas-bizness</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Inese Hazenfusa, senior associate of Grunte &amp; Cers, comments on the already effective amendments to the Commercial Law that deal with the long-lasting problem for the enterprises, which have not been re-registered with the commercial register, by allowing creditors to initiate their liquidation.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-05-05</pubDate>
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			<title>Inese Hazenfusa on the current amendments to the Commercial Law, in force since May 1, 2010, iFinanses.lv</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/inese-hazenfusa-on-the-current-amendments-to-the-commercial-law-in-force-since-may-1-2010-ifinanseslv</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Inese Hazenfusa, senior associate of Grunte &amp; Cers, reviews the most essential novelties in the amendments to the Commercial Law, paying particular attention to the possibility to establish limited liability companies with reduced share capital amount as well as to the changes in the term of office of members of executive institutions.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-05-05</pubDate>
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			<title>Zanete Raize on collection against compensation for unused holidays due by the employee, iFinanses.lv</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/zanete-raize-on-collection-against-compensation-for-unused-holidays-due-by-the-employee-ifinanseslv</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Zanete Raize, associate of Grunte &amp; Cers, replies to a question on the possibility to turn collection against compensation for unused holidays due by the employee.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-05-05</pubDate>
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			<title>Nauris Grigals on the purposes of the Out-of-court debt recovery draft law, Dienas bizness</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/nauris-grigals</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Nauris Grigals, associate of Grunte &amp; Cers, discusses the provisions of the Out-of-court debt recovery draft law concluding that they will limit excessive activities by creditors in debt recovery process and will protect interests of those creditors that will take an active role in looking for solutions.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-04-22</pubDate>
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			<title>Legal 500 ranks Grunte &amp; Cers highly in all categories</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/news/legal-500-ranks-grunte-cers-highly-in-all-categories</link>
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			<pubDate>2010-04-20</pubDate>
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			<title>Andis Paunins on the essential provisions of debt restructuring, Dienas bizness</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/andis-paunins-on-the-essential-provisions-of-debt-restructuring-dienas-bizness</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Andis Paunins, associate of Grunte &amp; Cers, reviews the essential provisions of debt restructuring, explaining the most important activities that are to be performed by debtor’s management depending on the category of the liabilities.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-04-12</pubDate>
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			<title>Inese Hazenfusa on the debts transfer transactions – assignment and novation, iFinanses.lv</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/inese-hazenfusa-on-the-debts-transfer-transactions-assignment-and-novation-ifinanseslv</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Inese Hazenfusa, senior associate of Grunte &amp; Cers, reviews the debt transfer transactions – assignment and novation – with an aim to assist business persons to choose the most adequate transaction for debt transfer. The lawyer compares both types of the transactions and specifies their essential differences.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-04-07</pubDate>
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			<title>Andis Paunins on the topical issues of patents in Latvia, Dienas bizness</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/andis-paunins-on-the-topical-issues-of-patents-in-latvia-dienas-bizness</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Andis Paunins, Associate of Grunte &amp; Cers, comments on the disputes in relation to protection of intellectual property rights, emphasising the current issues in the area of patents in Latvia and explaining when it is worthwhile to register the patents.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-03-26</pubDate>
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			<title>Ivars Grunte has been elected to the supervisory board of SOS Children’s village association</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/news/ivars-grunte-has-been-elected-to-the-supervisory-board-of-sos-childrens-village-association</link>
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			<pubDate>2010-03-23</pubDate>
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			<title>Linda Štrause and Nauris Grigals on the laws and regulations on real estate and their application in Latvia</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/linda-strause-and-nauris-grigals-on-the-laws-and-regulations-on-real-estate-and-their-application-in-latvia</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Grunte &amp; Cers senior associate Linda Štrause and associate Nauris Grigals have prepared the Latvian Chapter of the International Comparative Legal Guide to Real Estate in the year 2010 edition published by Global Legal Group. This legal guide provides current and practical comparative legal information on laws and regulations governing real estate.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-03-18</pubDate>
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			<title>Grunte &amp; Cers Attorneys at Law in cooperation with publishing house Dienas Bizness are preparing the Business Expansion and Restructuring Manual</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/news/grunte-cers-attorneys-at-law-in-cooperation-with-publishing-house-dienas-bizness-are-preparing-the-business-expansion-and-restructuring-manual</link>
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			<pubDate>2010-03-11</pubDate>
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			<title>Grunte &amp; Cers Attorneys at Law in cooperation with publishing house Dienas Bizness are preparing the Forest Owner’s Manual</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/news/grunte-cers-attorneys-at-law-in-cooperation-with-publishing-house-dienas-bizness-are-preparing-the-forest-owners-manual</link>
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			<pubDate>2010-03-10</pubDate>
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			<title>Agnese Hartpenga on legal regulation of public infrastructure and its application in Latvia, Delna</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/agnese-hartpenga-on-legal-regulation-of-public-infrastructure-and-its-application-in-latvia-delna</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Agnese Hartpenga, Senior Associate of Grunte &amp; Cers, participated in a research led by Transparency International Latvia – Delna on legal regulation of public infrastructure and its application in Latvia, providing analyses of corruption risks and their prevention methods in the public-private partnership projects.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-03-02</pubDate>
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			<title>Linda Strause on the insolvency process of individuals, Dienas bizness</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/linda-strause-on-the-insolvency-process-of-individuals-dienas-bizness</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Linda Strause, Attorney at Law of Grunte &amp; Cers, participates in a discussion on the provisions of the draft Insolvency law on the insolvency process of individuals and analyses possible creditor’s and debtor’s advantages from filing an insolvency application in court.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-02-22</pubDate>
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			<title>Linda Strause on the Provisions of draft Insolvency Law, Dienas bizness</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/publications/linda-strause-on-the-provisions-of-draft-insolvency-law-dienas-bizness</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Linda Strause, Attorney at Law of Grunte &amp; Cers, comments on the provisions of the draft Insolvency law, which foresees waiver of the balance sheet criterion for recognition of insolvency, and concludes how this change could affect the debtor.]]></description>
			<pubDate>2010-02-18</pubDate>
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			<title>Banking and finance lawyers participated in a seminar in Riga</title>
			<link>http://www.gruntecers.eu/news/news/banking-and-finance-lawyers-participated-in-a-seminar-in-riga</link>
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			<pubDate>2010-02-16</pubDate>
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