Jüri
Raidla

Senior Partner

Contact

T. +372 6407 170

Jüri Raidla is the founder and Senior Partner of Raidla Lejins & Norcous Estonia. He is one of the most widely recognised legal practitioners in Estonia and the only individual that has been endorsed in the Chambers & Partners legal directories from Estonia in the "Star Individual" category. Jüri Raidla served as the first Minister of Justice of Estonia (1990 to 1992) as well as the Chairman of the expert committee that drafted the Constitution of the Republic of Estonia in 1992. Mr. Raidla is also the first Chairman of the Estonian Banking Association established in 1992.

Areas of Expertise

Corporate Advisory
Real Estate, Construction and Planning
Logistics and Transit
Constitutional and Administrative Law

JOINED THE FIRM

1993

Partner since

1993

Education

1992 Post-doctorate program, Lund University, Sweden
1987 Ph.D in Law, University of St. Petersburg, Russia
1980 BA in Law / officially equivalent to MA, cum laude, University of Tartu, Estonia

Participation in legislative drafting

Constitution of the Republic of Estonia
Estonian State Symbols Act
Law on Property Reform
Law on Land Reform
Law on Protection of Foreign Investments
Privatization Law Act
Development Fund Act
Human Gene Research Act
Health Insurance Act
Unemployment Insurance Act
Estonian Health Insurance Fund Act
Credit Institutions Act

Memberships

Since 1994 Member of the Estonian Bar Association
Since 1998 Member of the International Bar Association (IBA)
2001-2011 Chairman of the Advisory Board of the University of Tartu
Member of Supervisory Board SA Iuridicum

Languages

Estonian, English, Russian

A selection of deals and cases

Advising Aktsiaselts SILMET GRUPP in the EUR 63 million sale of a 90.023% shareholding in Aktsiaselts SILMET to Molycorp Inc.
Advising Rail Garant Estonia OÜ in its agreements to develop a container terminal in Muuga Harbor
Advising Aktsiaselts Mainor in the sale of shares in Mainor Ülemiste AS to Technopolis Oyj and establishing of joint venture
Advising AS Vopak E.O.S. in various transit projects
Advising Norwegian-Austrian investors in the development of a pulp mill plant in Russia
Advising the Aktsiaselts SILLAMÄE SADAM in the preparation of source documents and in concluding contracts with the operators of the harbour
Advising Norwegian investors in the development of Aktsiaselts Estonian Cell plant in Kunda
Advising US investors in the development of Galvex Estonia OÜ (ArcelorMittal Tallinn OÜ) plant in Muuga harbour
Advising US-Estonian investors in the building up the Estonian Gene Bank

A selection of publications

Докучаева, Н. (2011). Юрий Райдла: Министром юстиции Эстонии я стал в 32 года. Pravotoday,
17 January 2012, URL
Raidla, J. (2010). Eesti Vabariik koduteel: riigiõiguslik areng 1990-1992 (The Republic of Estonia on its way home: constitutional development from 1990 to 1992). Riigikogu Toimetised, 22, 159-165
Raidla, J., Lang, R. (2007). Estonia: Europe`s Delaware? The European Lawyer, 71, 46-47
Ames, J. (2011). A strong constitution. European Lawyer, april, 105, 39-42, PDF