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The Latvian advertising experience platform, Monetizr, headquartered in Atlanta, USA, has raised EUR 3.6 million (USD 4 million USD) in a round led by Estonian Change Ventures, with participation from prior investors, the accelerator Techstars and Ludus Ventures. Monetizr will..

COBALT successfully represented the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism “Re:Baltica” in legal proceedings related to the article “Mega-donor to pro-Russian party benefits from Magnitsky and Azerbaijani laundromats”published by “Re:Baltica” on 19 March 2019. On 14 September 2022 the Supreme Court’s..

COBALT successfully represented the independent news magazine “Ir” in legal proceedings related to an investigative report on insolvency procedures by journalist Indra Sprance. In 2017 a judge brought a defamation claim against the magazine “Ir” and the journalist regarding a..

COBALT has achieved a win for a client, regarding rights to the domain name after filling a complaint in May, 2022 with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the “Center”). The Center’s Administrative Panel found that the disputed domain name, consisting..

Law firm COBALT advised Fortumo in the filing of a complaint to the Press Council regarding incorrect and misleading articles and headlines in the publications Äripäev and Postimees. COBALT assisted the client in the filing of a complaint with the..

Senior Associate Kadri Matteus successfully represented individual clients regarding a complaint lodged with the Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate for commencement of monitoring and issue of a precept on the basis of the GDPR. As AKI refused to hear the complaint,..

COBALT successfully represented Latvian Radio, public broadcaster of Latvia as respondent in a legal dispute with Ogre municipality for revocation of false news. In the spring of 2019, the morning program of the Latvian Radio featured an analytical story prepared..

On 30 June 2020, the Latvian Supreme Court upheld a decision which had dismissed the claim by All Media Latvia (previously Latvijas Neatkarīgā Televīzija) against Latvian Television (public broadcaster). The claimant alleged a breach of the copyright and unfair competition,..