Sorainen advised Linna Ekraanid on the sale of the remaining 50% of its shares to Ekspress Grupp. In 2016 Sorainen advised Kindel Reklaam, Unicorpo and Trend on the sale of their 50% shareholding in Linna Ekraanid to Ekspress Grupp. The purpose of the first acquisition was to create preconditions for Ekspress Grupp to set off […]
Our Risk Management, Corporate Crime Investigations & Defence team helped Tallinn city government to formulate its new anti-corruption strategy. To outline the strategy, research was carried out from June 2018 to March 2019. This mainly covered three areas: review of the city’s internal policies and their legality; supervision of property transactions; and random inspection of […]
Sorainen successfully represented the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (SDPL), one of the major political parties in the country, in a dispute with Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission (CEC). The SDPL appealed the CEC’s finding, which had resulted in the party not receiving half a year’s subsidy of EUR 504 000 before elections to municipal councils, […]
Sorainen provides general legal assistance to global science and technology company Merck in the Baltics. Assistance includes drafting and analysing commercial contracts according to local laws, advice on competition law, data protection law, application of the GDPR and local employment law. We have assisted with respect to interpreting local pharmaceutical regulations, especially as to interactions […]
FinEst Bay Area Development signed a memorandum of understanding for EUR 15 billion in financing with China’s Touchstone Capital Partners for an undersea train tunnel project linking Helsinki with the Estonian capital Tallinn. FinEst Bay Area raised the first external funding of EUR 100 million from Dubai-based construction company ARJ Holding in December 2018 and is seeking […]