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, […]
We represented Kaefer, a construction services provider, in a landmark dispute where the Estonian courts explained the principles of burden of proof in cases involving a claim for remuneration under a contract for services. Kaefer had concluded a contract for services with Isoest, under which Isoest had to insulate the pipes in a cogeneration plant. […]
Sorainen successfully represented former board members of Investment and Business Guarantees (Invega) – a company subordinate to the Lithuanian Ministry of Economy ‒ in an appeal case heard at Vilnius Regional Court concerning a bonus payment to a former manager of Invega. The Ministry of Economy appealed the decision of the Vilnius City District Court, […]
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Alexey Anischenko, partner with Sorainen Belarus, took part in a conference on ‘Dispute Resolution in CIS-Related Business Transactions’ in Frankfurt, where he spoke about recent tendencies in dispute resolution involving foreign entities. In general, Alexey positively assessed the changes taking place in Belarus in the area of quality of justice and development of alternative methods […]