e-services portal for the Sultanate of Oman. The Invest Easy portal allows Omani entrepreneurs to register a company in 1 minute 50 seconds. Oman rose 127 places in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business index ranking as a result. 2016 – Nortal acquired marketing automation and lead management company Element, based in Stockholm, Sweden. 2016 – Nortal Group shareholders bought back 50% of Group shares from Enterprise Investors and LHV Pension Funds, regaining full ownership of the company. 2017 – Nortal issued bonds for 15 million euros to boost expansion. 2018 – Nortal opens an office in Düsseldorf, Germany. 2018 – Nortal acquires U.S. Company Dev9 expanding its North American footprint. 2020 – Nortal announced selling off its marketing automation division in Sweden via a management buyout. 2020 – Nortal acquired Schütze AG, a leading strategic consulting and software engineering company in Germany. The merge strengthened Nortal’s expansion strategy in Europe, creating a transatlantic digital transformation powerhouse of 1000 experts. Over the years Nortal has been the start for several spin-off businesses, which continue to operate as separate companies – ZeroTurnaround, Plumbr, eInvoices Centre, OpenText ECM and Leanest Ltd. One of the founding members, Taavi Kotka left Nortal in 2012 to become the first Chief Information Officer of the Estonian government and one of the founders of the e-Residency program. Areas of expertise Since the foundation of the company, Nortal's solutions have been implemented in 60 countries across five continents. Nortal has received significant critical acclaim for many of its solutions. Most notably a third of all e-government solutions in Estonia have been planned and implemented by Nortal, for example operative system of European Union structural funds for Estonian Ministry of Finance, employment information system for Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund, launching proactive family and parental benefits for Social Insurance Board etc. Among some of its most noteworthy projects are also the electronic financial management platform GIFMIS for the federal government of Nigeria, e-tax system for Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) and Invest Easy, major government e-services portal for the Sultanate of Oman. Invest Easy is widely acknowledged and awarded EODB (ease of doing business) project that has had substantial impact on local business environment and climate in Oman. Following successful launch and implementation of Invest Easy portal, Oman made an unprecedented leap in the Ease of Doing Business Ranking of World Bank's annual Doing Business 2017 report, jumping 127