- Managing Partner: Toomas Vaher
- Senior Partner: Jüri Raidla
- Number of partners: 7 in Estonia, 19 across the Baltics and Belarus
- Number of lawyers: 35 in Estonia, 130 across the Baltics and Belarus
- Languages: English, Estonian, French, German, Russian
Firm Overview: In the Baltics and Belarus: Raidla Lejins & Norcous firms in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus are leading providers of legal services in the Baltic and Belarus region with a total team of 165 professionals, of who 130 are lawyers.
In Estonia: The Estonian office of Raidla Lejins & Norcous is one of the oldest and largest law firms in Estonia, established in 1993.
Raidla Lejins & Norcous is one of the few firms in Estonia that is endorsed in Band 1/Tier 1 category by all the major law firm directories and the only firm that is endorsed in Band 1 by Chambers Europe in both areas – disputes and transactions.
Main Areas of Practice:
Corporate/ M&A:
1 partner, 9 fee earners based in Tallinn n Advising Transportation Investments Holding Limited, in the sale of 50% of its shares in Global Ports Investments PLC to APM Terminals, a company belonging to A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S group
• Advising Uponor, a leading international provider of plumbing and indoor climate systems and KWH Group in creation of JV company by merger of their infrastructure businesses
• Advising Norwegian company Reitan Servicehandel AS in the €130 million acquisition of over 1000 R-Kiosk convenience stores
Contact: Sven Papp Tel: +372 6407 151 Email: sven.papp@rln.ee
Banking & Finance, Capital Markets:
1 partner, 5 fee earners based in Tallinn
• Advising AS Tallink Group, one of the largest passenger and cargo shipping companies in the Baltic Sea region, and one of its major shareholders AS Infortar in the sale of 15.73% shares in Tallink to Baltic Cruises Holding L.P. for approximately €117 million
• Advising Ukrselhosprom with the acquisition of AS Marfin Bank. It was the first Ukrainian entity that was given the approval for acquisition of a qualifying shareholding in an EU bank. • Advising AS Vopak E.O.S., the global market leader in the independent storage and handling of liquid oil products, chemicals, vegetable oils, and liquefied gases and AS E.R.S. in connection with a €100 million term loan facility from a syndicate of Estonian banks
Contact: Raino Paron Tel: +372 6407 188 Email: raino.paron@rln.ee
Competition:
1 partner, 3 fee earners based in Tallinn
• Advising AS Estonian Air, the national air carrier, in state aid issues related to its restructuring
• Representing AS Tallinna Vesi, a company engaged in the supply of water and treatment of wastewater services in the city of Tallinn and its surrounding areas, in a number of disputes conserning water prices
• Advising Elion Ettevõtted AS, the leading fixed network operator and EMT AS, the leading mobile operator, in disputes on pricing and competition issues
Contact: Raino Paron Tel: +372 6407 188 Email: raino.paron@rln.ee
Ligitation & Arbitration:
2 partners, 8 fee earners based in Tallinn
• Advising Nordecon, one of the largest listed construction groups in Estonia, in a number of public procurement processes and related disputes over construction of Estonian main roads (Tallinn-Tartu, Tallinn-Narva etc) and infrastructure
• Advising BLRT, a shipbuilding company headquartered in Estonia and owning shipyards in Lithuania, Finland and Norway, in disputes with its stakeholders over share transfer and preemptive rights
• Representing SEB Pank AS as a third party in the Supreme Court in one of the most discussed and controversial court case of the year, where the Supreme Court analysed whether the former clients of Estonian commercial banks of early nineties may have claims against the state as a result of assets frozen at Foreign Trade Bank of U.S.S.R. in 1992 and following insufficient efforts of the state to resolve the issue within 20 years.
Contact: Arne Ots Tel: +372 6407 160 Email: arne.ots@rln.ee
IP & Technology:
1 partner, 4 fee earners based in Tallinn
• Representing Astra Zeneca,Bayer and Novartis, in disputes against producer of generic pharmaceuticals over patent infringement n Representing Estonian Authors’ Society against AS Viasat over interpretation of cable transmission and SAT TV exceptions under the EU cable TV directive
• Advising insurance provider RSA in outsourcing all of its IT services in Estonia
Contact: Ants Nõmper Tel: +372 6407 197 Email: ants.nomper@rln.ee
Real Estate & Infrastructure:
2 partners, 9 fee earners based in Tallinn
• Advising Rail Garant, one of the largest transport companies in Russia, in the development of multimillion container terminal in Muuga
• Advising Eesti Energia AS, the national energy company, in connection with the procurement and construction of the new greenfield 600MW oil shale fired power plant in Narva, Estonia for over €200 million
• Advising Eesti Energia AS, the national energy company, in connection with the procurement and construction of the new greenfield shale oil plant in Narva, Estonia
Contact: Jaanus Ikla Tel: +372 6407 190 Email: jaanus.ikla@rln.ee
Tax:
1 partner, 3 fee earners based in Tallinn
• Providing tax advice to Mölnlycke Health Care AB, during the corporate restructuring in all three Baltic States
• Advising Eesti Energia AS, the national energy company, in tax planning related to investments to a power plant and oil shale production plant in Jordan
• Advising Citigroup, the leading global bank, on tax issues related to securities transactions in Estonia
Contact: Sven Papp Tel: +372 6407 151 Email: sven.papp@rln.ee
Areas of PracticeBanking & Finance, Capital Markets
Constitutional & Administrative
Corporate Advisory
Data Protection
Dispute Resolution, Litigation & Arbitration
Energy & Infrastructure
Environmental
EU & Competition Law, State Aid
Health Care & Medicine
Intellectual Property (IP)
IT & Telecoms
Labour
Media & Advertising
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
Penal Power
Product Liability, Consumer Protection, Product
Recall
Public Procurement & PPP
Real Estate, Construction & Planning
Restructuring & Insolvency
Tax
Transport, Logistics & Transit