Deals & Cases / Pekka Puolakka, Paul Künnap
Metsä Wood, the wood products arm of Metsä Group, acquired an industrial land plot in Estonia, Pärnu city in the spring and is establishing a birch plywood mill there. The cornerstone of the new factory was laid in August. The new mill is due to start production by the end of 2018 and will create […]
KONE, a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, invested in the Estonian startup Indoor.Ninja, a developer of cloud-based visitor management services, in an effort to improve and automate the check-in experience for office building visitors. Sorainen Estonia performed legal due diligence of the target and drafted transaction documents. The Sorainen team advising KONE included […]
International automotive group Inchcape Motors acquired the assets of United Motors, becoming the exclusive distributor for BMW Group in Estonia. The business acquired serves customers of BMW Group and KIA, employing more than 90 people at retail sites in Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu and Kohtla-Järve. The transaction received approval of the Estonian Competition Authority in June. […]
Deals & Cases / Paul Künnap, Pekka Puolakka
Sorainen Estonia advised Sanoma Media Finland on divestment of its fully owned subsidiary Sanoma Baltics to a consortium of management team members and a private equity investor BaltCap. Sanoma Baltics operates auto24.ee, the market leader in Estonian online car classifieds, and Kuldne Börs, an online generalist market place, among others. In 2016, the net sales […]
Sorainen advised Lords LB Baltic Fund IV in the acquisition of an office building in central Tallinn known as EU House. The transaction posed some unique challenges due to the fact that the property is structured as a building title and parts of the building remained under reconstruction during the transaction. Additionally, the transaction involved […]