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Our regionally integrated team connects international business with local expertise, which makes us a great choice for large multi-jurisdictional projects. Our full-scale portfolio of competition and regulatory products covers all stages, from compliance to action and reaction, so that we are able to support our clients whenever the need arises. Besides being experts in the field of law, our team members also have in-depth knowledge about a wide range of business sectors, and as a result, they bring together diverse sets of expertise across the region.


Our areas of specialisation include:

  • Merger control issues
  • Advice on abuse of dominant position
  • Advice on anticompetitive agreements
  • State aid
  • Competition compliance measures
  • Assistance during dawn raids
  • Food retailing regulation
  • Advertising and consumer protection
  • Regulated markets
  • Assistance with national and EU public institutions

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Competition/Antitrust - Estonia

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Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Sorainen remains a market-leading firm in the area of Estonian competition law. The team boasts a broad practice that covers merger clearance filings, behavioural investigations and state aid mandates. In addition to assisting clients with investigations, the law firm offers notable experience in challenges to authority decisions and follow-on damages actions. It has a number of clients from the energy sector.

Work Highlights

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  • Sorainen advised Milrem Robotics on the competition law aspects of its merger with EDGE Group.

Strengths

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"The team have a total understanding of the client's needs and the ability to offer the most suitable solution."

Competition/Antitrust respondent
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"The team are good at pointing out risks and offering solutions to prevent them."

Competition/Antitrust respondent
Europe

"The team always do their utmost to give us a prompt response."

Competition/Antitrust respondent
Europe

"We receive quick, good, understandable answers."

Competition/Antitrust respondent
Europe

"It is a very strong team with a high commitment to delivering on targets."

Competition/Antitrust respondent
Europe

Notable Practitioners

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Kaupo Lepasepp
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Kaupo Lepasepp
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Eminent Practitioners

The firm's managing partner, Kaupo Lepasepp assists clients with competition law matters. He has particular experience in state aid matters.

"He is a high-level specialist."

"He is very smart, technical and knows the market well."

"His expertise and demeanour in all interactions contribute to a very strong level of service."

"Kaupo Lepasepp has been a great help; he sees beyond things."

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Piibe Lehtsaar
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Piibe Lehtsaar
1
Band 1

Piibe Lehtsaar enters the top tier of the rankings this year, following impressive activity in the competition law clearance aspects of proposed mergers and joint ventures, as well as in challenges to possible abuses of dominance. She also represents clients in follow-on damages actions.

"She is a very systematic and result-oriented lawyer who has excellent legal knowledge in competition law, public law and contract law."

"She is able to notice critical places and point them out correctly."

"She is a lawyer with a high competence in the competition law area."

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Kaupo Lepasepp
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Kaupo Lepasepp
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Piibe Lehtsaar
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Piibe Lehtsaar
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Band 1
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