Sorainen

Dispute Resolution & Risk Management, Employment law, Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG), Ukraine

Partner, head of the firm’s Public Procurement & Public Projects team in Estonia.

Kadri Härginen is head of the firm’s Public Procurement & Public Projects team in Estonia. This forms part of the Dispute Resolution and Risk Management practice. In her view, a dispute resolution team is like an emergency room for legal issues: disputes arise quickly in various areas of the law and the key to success is to form a unique and highly skilled unit for each dispute.

Dispute resolution experience. Although public procurement-related issues are her passion, Kadri has also successfully represented clients in public and civil law cases ‒ for example, involving state liability, waste management, environmental law, land reform and consumer protection. Her secondary field of expertise is employment law disputes, including representing employers in cases where an employee has been diagnosed with an occupational disease.

Knowing both sides. Before joining Sorainen, Kadri Härginen worked in the public sector as a public procurement specialist and policymaker. Having the desire to fully understand both the contracting authority’s and the tenderer’s side of the process, and to get a grasp of many different cases, she chose to work as a lawyer. This allows her to see the daily joys and concerns of many different tenderers and also still advise several contracting authorities. Her experience in public procurement law dates back to 2007.

Trainer and mentor. Kadri has trained judges, state authorities and local authorities as well as businesses focusing on public procurement. In addition, for many years she have taught public procurement law at the Law Faculty of the University of Tartu. She deeply appreciate the firm’s mentoring programme and place high value on the fact that every colleague feels a real member of the team because team-work and cooperation are key components of quality work.

Academic work in public procurement law. Kadri Härginen has written all her academic theses in the field of public procurement law (framework agreements and grounds for exclusion in Estonian and EU public procurement law). She is currently writing a PhD thesis on the contracting authority’s due diligence obligation.

Educated in public and municipal law. In earlier studies at the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences Kadri specialised in public law. In addition, she was awarded a certificate for acting as a rural or city municipality secretary.

Estonian, English

Estonian Bar Association Estonian Bar Association Administrative Law Commission

University of Tartu, Faculty of Law (PhD, to be obtained) University of Tartu, Faculty of Law (LL.M.) University of Tartu, Faculty of Law (LL.B.) Estonian Academy of Security Sciences (Professional higher education in public administration)