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Raidla Lejins & Norcous expands towards the East

Responding to an increased interest from the clients towards opening investment opportunities towards the East, Raidla Lejins & Norcous has launched Belarus Help Desk to offer comprehensive legal advice on doing business in Belarus. A team of highly professional lawyers are ready to advise clients with interest in entering the Belarus market, in all areas of local business law.

The managing partner of Raidla Lejins & Norcous Estonia, Mr. Jüri Raidla states that the cooling economy urges entrepreneurs to search for effectiveness and find new interesting markets and investment possibilities: "The globalization paves way to discover new markets and business opportunities. Eastern European market, culture and somewhat bulky business environment are familiar to us – we have no language barriers and share similar recent historical background. The integration of Baltic markets is profound, now we need to incorporate our "gateway" position to the world", Mr. Raidla sees the potential developments.

The Head of Belarus team, Ms. Olga Mažitova, lawyer of Raidla Lejins & Norcous Lithuania with a LL.M degree from the Belarus State Economic University, foresees different interesting possibilities on the Belarus market: "During the past two years, Belarus has intensively worked on positive investment climate as well as on tightening the economic relations with Western European countries. Although the local market is continuously relatively complex for foreign companies, its attractiveness and understanding of the market potential is increasing. In the process of evaluation of new potential markets, entrepreneurs are looking for partners who are competent in the analysis of potential risks, partners who feel at home on the local market. We are glad to be there on time", says Mažitova who acknowledges the most interesting areas for foreign companies to be real estate, privatization and financial fields.

Raidla Lejins & Norcous are leading pan-Baltic providers of legal services with offices in Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius. Before unifying their corporate identity and consolidating their pan-Baltic branding in May 2008, Raidla Lejins & Norcous were locally operating under the business names of Raidla & Partners in Estonia, Lejins, Torgans & Partners in Latvia and Norcous & Partners in Lithuania. The firms render comprehensive legal services to local, regional and international legal entities, including multinational enterprises, international banks and financial institutions. The substantial domestic and international practices of Raidla Lejins & Norcous focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate advisory, dispute resolution, competition, real estate and construction, banking and finance, intellectual property, and employment law.

In May 2004 Raidla Lejins & Norcous joined forces with Roschier, a leading law firm in Northern Europe with offices in Helsinki and Stockholm, to form RoschierRaidla – the network covering five jurisdictions in Northern Europe. The group employs approximately 260 lawyers, of whom over 100 are employed by Raidla Lejins & Norcous in the Baltic States. Since 2005, RoschierRaidla firms are members of IUS LABORIS, an international Employment Law, Pensions and Employee Benefits Alliance.
Further information about RoschierRaidla firms and alliance: www.roschierraidla.com

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Additional information:
Kadri Mätik
Marketing & Communication Manager
Raidla Lejins & Norcous Tallinn
+372 640 7170
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