About

 

  • One of the largest providers of legal services in the Baltics and Belarus
  • Founded in 1993 in Estonia, in 1994 in Latvia, in 2001 in Lithuania and in 2012 in Belarus
  • Total team of 155 professionals, of whom 120 are lawyers

 

      

 

  • Regularly involved in the most complex transactions and disputes across the region
  • Expertise covers all areas of business law with a special focus on Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Corporate Advisory, Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, EU & Competition, Litigation and Arbitration, Tax, Restructuring & Insolvency, Real Estate, Planning & Construction, Energy & Infrastructure, Environmental law, IP&IT, and Labour law
  • Recommended as a Tier 1 law firm by all major global directories: Chambers, Legal 500, PLC Which Lawyer?, IFLR1000. Top ranked by leading M&A intelligence firms: mergermarket, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters et al

 

Interesting facts

  • One of the oldest commercial law firms in Estonia, established in 1993
  • The only law firm in Estonia whose transaction and litigation practices are both endorsed with the highest rankings by leading global law firm directories
  • Participating very actively in legislative drafting – members of the team have participated in the drafting of more than 40 laws in Estonia

     

What makes us special

  • The highest number of PhD degrees in Estonia: universities of Saint Petersburg, Freiburg and Tartu
  • One of the highest number of LL.M degrees in Estonia: universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Leiden, Georgetown, Göttingen, Tartu, Stockholm, Freiburg, Münster, Amsterdam, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Our lawyers have studied internationally: universities of Helsinki, Göttingen, Warwick, Salzburg, Münster, Genova, Liege, Lund, University of Paris X Nanterre etc
  • Our lawyers have interned at: Roschier (Finland and Sweden), White & Case (New York and Stockholm), Height Gardner Poor & Heavens (New York), Mannheimer Swartling (Stockholm), Moquet Borde & Associes and elsewhere in Germany, the UK, Denmark and France
  • Our lawyers have worked for: the Estonian Government, the World Bank, the IMF, large Scandinavian and Estonian listed and non-listed companies such as Swedish Match, Nokia, SIAR Bossard Management Consultants, Eesti Energia, Port of Tallinn
  • Our team is very active - giving regular lectures at Estonian universities, belonging to a number of expert committees, serving in the bodies of the Estonian Bar Association, IBA, Estonian Young Bar Association, AIJA, CCBE, Tallinn Stock Exchange, Tartu University etc