Martin Käerdi

Position
Counsel

Expertise
business & contract law, project finance, property law, construction & real estate development, energy, EU law, infrastructure, product liability & consumer protection

Joined Firm
2003

Career
since 2002 Lecturer, University of Tartu, Faculty of Law
1997-2003 Head of the Division of Private Law, Ministry of Justice of Estonia

Education
2005 Dr iur, University of Freiburg, Germany
2002 LL.M, University of Tartu, Estonia
2000 Law degree, University of Tartu, Estonia

Languages
Estonian, English, German, Finnish

Memberships
since 2005 Member of the Expert Committee of Free Legal Profession and Insolvency Law at the Ministry of Justice
2002-2003 Head of the company law sector of accession negotiations between the Republic of Estonia and the European Union

Participation in legislative drafting

• Law of Obligations Act
• Restructuring Law
• Law of Property Act
• Commercial Code
• Employment Contracts Act
• Law of the General Part of the Civil Code, Head of the Drafting Commission
• Merchant Shipping Act, Head of the Drafting Commission
• Bankruptcy Act, Head of the Drafting Commission
• Inheritance Act, Head of the Drafting Commission
• Securities Market Act
• Law on Investment Funds
• Law on Credit Institutions Act
• Seafarers Act

Publications

• Paul Varul, Irene Kull, Villu Kõve, Martin Käerdi. Law of Obligations Act II.- Juura 2007
• Irene Kull, Martin Käerdi, Villu Kõve. Law of Obligations I. General Part, Tallinn: Juura, 2004, 469 pages (in Estonian);
• Western Legal Concepts for Post-Socialist Societies: Legislative Experiences in Estonia. - Brückenschlag zwischen den Rechtskulturen des Ostseeraums, H. Heiss (Hrsg.), Tübingen: Mohr, 2001, pages 75-88 (in German);
• Estonia and the Process Towards New Civil Law: Inspiration, Models and Perspectives. - Regional Private Laws and Codification in Europe, Ed by Hector MacQueen a.o, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pages 250-259;
• Regulation of Limitation Periods in Estonian Private Law: Historical Overview and Prospects. - Juridica International, No 6, 2001, pages 66 77;
• Martin Käerdi et al. Contracts. Forms and Commentaries (Commentary to the Law of Obligations Act). Tallinn: Käsiraamatute Kirjastus, 2002.

Other
Martin Käerdi has spoken on several domestic and international conferences on issues related to private law reform in Estonia.