Our partner Carri Ginter spoke about the digital transformation of Estonian courts at the European Court of Human Rights. Carri participated in the panel focusing on information technologies as means of communication and remote access to case-file at the meeting with national bar associations as a representative of the Estonian Bar Association. The full meeting schedule is […]
We are helping the Estonian streaming platform Fairmus to make the payment model of music streaming services more transparent and to create an opportunity for musicians to earn a fair fee for their work. Fairtrade music Founded by Tõnis Kivisild, Juko-Mart Kõlar, Kristjan Ulst, and Reigo Ahven, the company is a fair trade system of […]
Non-use trademark cancellation is quite a common legal tool for combatting trademark piracy, as well as preventing rightsholders from “taking up space” with inactive trademark registrations. General rules In Belarus, a trademark registration may be fully or partially cancelled by a decision of the Intellectual Property Board of the Supreme Court if, without a valid […]
Deals & Cases / Ann Laevskaya, Artem Melnikovich
We advised a Chinese financial institution in connection with the provision of a credit facility to the Belarusian subsidiary of an international group of companies headquartered in China. Our services and team Our team assisted the client at all stages of the transaction, including corporate legal due diligence on the borrower, revision of the transaction […]
Estonians have not yet recovered from this fall’s electricity price shock, while the 2022 state budget already aims to considerably hike traffic fines and state fees. As if that was not enough, the government introduced a bill in late September that promises to increase the tax burden further, our partner Allar Jõks and counsel Piibe […]