Ellex

M&A, Capital Markets, Private Equity, Foreign Direct Investment

Partner

Sven has unique and broad international experience both as an attorney and as a General Counsel, having worked at White & Case law firm in New York (1989-1990) and in Stockholm (1991-1992), the Swedish-French strategic management consulting firm SIAR-Bossard in Stockholm (1992-1994) and as General Counsel of Swedish Match East Europe in Stockholm (1994-1998). Sven has an unrivalled track record having over the past 25 years acted as lead  counsel for more than 1,500 high-value landmark local and international M&A transactions across the Baltic and Nordic region.

Sven is widely renowned expert in corporate governance, he has been serving as Board member and/or corporate secretary to several major companies, e.g. Eesti Energia, Swedish Match, Eesti Telecom (currently Telia Eesti), Estonian Recycling Company, Tere/Farmi (Estonian leading dairy industries), Eesti Post/Omniva, Estonian Development Fund, Elcogen AS, Meeat Foodtech Oy, Estonian Festival Orchestra (symphony orchestra of world-famous Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi), etc.

2002 Nasdaq CSD Tallinn Stock Exchange, Chairman of the Listing and Supervisory Committee

2014 Estonian Bar Association, Member of Business Law Committee

2014 Ministry of Justice, Member of the Committee of Review of the Estonian Commercial Code

2014 European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

2014 Estonian Service Industry Association

1987 Estonian Bar Association

1991 Stockholm University, Sweden, Master of Laws (LL.M.)

1986 University of Tartu, Estonia, Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), officially equivalent to MA