Marta Cera is an associate partner and Co – Head of the Banking & Finance practice group. Marta has extensive experience in financial regulatory matters, financing transactions and has developed the firm’s investment funds practice.
Marta advises clients on financial regulatory matters in relation to the application of AIFMD, MiFID, PSD, and other EU and local regulatory frameworks. Marta assists major international clients in a wide scope of cross-border secured lending and structured financing transactions. Marta also often acts on M&A deals involving significant financing aspects. Marta also works with capital markets projects and is one of the contact persons at Ellex in Latvia for the NASDAQ First North Certified Advisor programme.
Marta holds a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) certificate from the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) and advises clients on AML/CTF related matters.
Sunly, a renewable energy producer, raises €300 million
Financing of Latvia’s largest standalone solar PV plant
Merito Partners has been launched in Latvia
Maag Group acquires HKScan’s Baltic businesses
Initial public offering of Enefit Green shares
Bite Group’s EUR 700 million bond issuance and financing
UnifiedPost Group acquires Fitek Holding
Enefit Green acquires Nelja Energia
2017
Riga Graduate School of Law
2015
Riga Graduate School of Law
2012
University of Greenwich
Since 2020
Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS)
Since 2020
NASDAQ First North
Since 2017
Latvian Bar Association
Since 2017
International Bar Association (IBA)
2020
COVID-19 – Opportunities. CEE finance and capital markets 2020–2021The CEE banking and finance practice at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer – jointly with leading firms in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region as part of their StrongerTogether network – presents an annual update highlighting market trends and legal developments in the banking, finance and capital markets sectors in CEE. This year’s publication focuses on opportunities in the CEE region as a result and in the aftermath of COVID-19.
Ellex is the author of the Latvia and Lithuania chapter of the guide. The co-authors of the Latvia chapter are Associate Partner Valters Diure and Senior Associate Marta Cera. The Lithuania chapter has been prepared by Senior Associate Neringa Mickevičiūtė.
2018
Latvian government looks to repair reputation with AML overhaulAssociate Marta Cera comments on the Moneyval AML report and the adopted regulatins made in response by the Latvian government.
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