Programme
9.00 – 9.30
REGISTRATION, MORNING COFFEE
9.30 – 9.35
Welcome Address
- Jüri Raidla, Managing Partner, Raidla Lejins & Norcous, Estonia
9.35 – 9.50
Opening speech
- Juhan Parts, Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications, Estonia
9.50 – 10.20
Reawakening investment potential in the Baltics - a fresh start!?!
- Jan Olsson, Chairman of the Nordic and Baltic Markets Committee, Deutsche Bank AG, London
10.20 – 10.50
A penetrating glance from Scandinavia – has the market reached its bottom?
- Erkki Raasuke, CFO, Swedbank group, Sweden
10.50 – 11.10
COFFEE
11.10 – 11.40
A lawyer’s perspective – investor hindsight
- Ulf-Henrik Kull, Managing Partner, Roschier, Finland and Sweden
11.40 – 12.10
Practical interactive insights: recent market shifts
- Sven Papp, Partner, Raidla Lejins & Norcous, Estonia
- Girts Lejins, Managing Partner, Raidla Lejins & Norcous, Latvia
- Irmantas Norkus, Managing Partner, Raidla Lejins & Norcous, Lithuania
12.10 – 13.00
M&A transactions in the Baltics (presentation + panel)
Moderator:- Sven Papp, Partner, Head of M&A practice group, Raidla Lejins & Norcous, Estonia
- Henrik Igasta, Member of the Board, SEB Enskilda
- Viljar Arakas, CEO, EfTEN Capital
- Gert Tiivas, CEO, East Capital Explorer
- Aare Tammemäe, Member of the Board, Redgate Capital
13.00 – 14.00
LUNCH
14.00 – 14.30
Status and perspective of development in the Russian economy – focusing on investments abroad
- Raivo Vare, Head of Supervisory Board, Estonian Development Fund
14.30 – 15.00
Doing business in Russia and CIS countries – lessons and guidelines for foreign investors
- Mikhail Kazantsev, Head of M&A Group, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners, Russia
15.00 – 15.20
COFFEE
15.20 – 16.20
CIS-related investments (presentation + panel)
Moderator:- Jüri Raidla, Managing Partner, Raidla Lejins & Norcous, Estonia
- Joakim Helenius, Head of Supervisory Board, Trigon Capital
- Fjodor Berman, Head of Management Board, BLRT Group
- Urmas Sõõrumaa, Head of Management Board, U.S. Invest
- Tiit Vähi, Head of Supervisory Board, Sillamäe Sadam/Silmet Grupp
16.20 – 16.50
A gateway between east and west – new opportunities or increasing competition?
- Stephen Denyer, Partner, Allen & Overy, Germany and London
16.50 – 17.30
