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Contact
Office: Tallinn
E-mail: sven.papp@rln.ee
Tel: +372 640 7170
Fax: +372 640 7171

Sven Papp

Born
5 January 1963

Position
Partner
Head of Transactions and Corporate Advisory Practice Group

Expertise
M&A, business & contract law, general corporate, labour law, electronic communications

Joined Firm
1994

Career
1994 - (current) Partner, Raidla Lejins & Norcous
1995-1998 General Counsel of Swedish Match East Europe (Stockholm)
1992-1994 Law Office Sven Papp and associated legal counsel of SIAR Bossard Management Consultants (Stockholm)
1991-1992 Legal Counsel to the Ministry of Economy and Tallinn Chamber of Commerce and Industry
1990-1991 White & Case (New York and Stockholm)
1989 Height Gardner Poor & Heavens, currently Holland & Knight (New York)
1986 – 1989 Tallinn II Legal Advisory Office

Education
Stockholm University, Master Program at Law Faculty on Private Law and Comparative Law (LL.M. as of 1991)
University of Tartu, Law degree (1986)

Languages
Estonian, English, Finnish, Russian

Memberships
Member of the Expert Council of Independent Legal Profession and Insolvency Law at the Ministry of Justice (Vabade õiguselukutsete ja maksejõuetusõiguse ekspertnõukogu)
Member of European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
Member of Listing and Supervisory Committee of Tallinn Stock Exchange since 2002
Member of Estonian Bar Association since 1987

Participation in legislative drafting

  • Privatisation Act
  • Law on Investment Funds
  • Commercial Code
  • Tobacco Act
  • Railways Act
  • Energy Act
  • Telecommunication Act and Law on Electronic Communication
  • Package Act
  • Law on Development Fund (state risk capital fund)

Publications

  • Estonian Chapter of “Common Legal Framework for Takeover Bids in Europe” (together with Ahto Nirgi), General Editor Dirk Van Gerven, Cambridge University Press, November 2008
  • Estonian Chapter of "Mergers & Acquisitions in 52 Jurisdictions Worldwide 2008", Getting the Deal Through 2008
  • Estonian Chapter of "Hiring the Best Qualified and Most Talented Employees: Handbook on Global Recruiting, Screening, testing and Interviewing Criteria", Editors: Salvador del Rey and Robert J. Mignin, Wolters Kluwer, International Bar Association Series, 2008
  • Estonian Chapter of "Employment and Labour Law", jurisdictional comparisons, second edition, General Editor: Janet Gaymer CBE, The European Lawyer Ltd. 2007
  • J. Shipova, S. Papp “Termination of the authority of Board Members”, Juridica 2007
  • K. Reinson, S. Papp, T. Vaher “Application of European Regulation of Electronic Communication in Estonia” (256 pages) Juura 2005.
  • Estonian Chapter of “The European Company. Volume I”, General Editors: Dirk Van Gerven and Paul Storm, Cambridge University Press 2006.

 

Sven Papp has contributed to a substantial number of articles, overviews and reports on various topics of Estonian law.


Other
Sven Papp has spoken on several domestic and international conferences on issues related to M&A and corporate governance.