COBALT's employment practice is recognised as one of the leading players in labour and employment legal matters.
Our alliance and affiliations allow us to cater to clients both in the Baltics and internationally.
COBALT is a closely integrated alliance of top-tier law offices across the Baltics and Belarus.
Our firms are consistently ranked in the top tier by the most prestigious legal directories: Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, Legal500 and IFLR 1000.
Established in 1994, COBALT Latvia is one of Latvia's leading law firms and was again named in 2015 'Baltic Law Firm of the Year' by Chambers Europe, one of the world's leading independent legal analysts. The COBALT network consists of around 230 professionals; of whom 182 are highly educated lawyers and legal professionals advising in labour and employment law.
Consistently recognised as the law firm of choice in the Baltics and Belarus, our offices have several times received Chambers Europe, IFLR, the Lawyer and Mergermarket awards.
Our employment law practice is one of the leading players in employment-related legal matters, with years of relevant experience in providing a full range of counselling, litigation and compliance services to international and local clients.
Toms Sulmanis heads the Employment & Immigration practice group in COBALT Latvia. Toms has 15 years of experience in the fields of M&A, Corporate/Commercial, Real Estate and Employment, including representation of clients in acquisition and sale of trade centers, commercial and residential developments, advice on all aspects of construction process, drafting and negotiating of commercial leases. Toms has also represented clients in complex corporate and employment matters, like restructuring of operations, redundancies, dealing with trade unions.