Sorainen

Dispute Resolution & Risk Management

Senior Associate

As a senior associate specialising in dispute resolution, Triin Toom is especially passionate about complex financial disputes and disputes involving cross-border elements and EU law. As a member of the firm’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications sector group she does a lot of work with tech companies.

Squeeze-out in listed company. A squeeze-out of the minority shareholders in a publicly listed company is extremely rare, having happened only three times in Estonia, and Triin advised clients in two of the more recent cases. In one of these she had the opportunity to advise the minority shareholders in obtaining fair compensation. In the other case she represented the majority shareholder in disputes with some minority shareholders who tried to hinder the squeeze-out process by filing unsubstantiated claims. These disputes involved hundreds of shareholders and had a financial influence amounting to millions of euros.

Supporting innovation. Triin Toom has been lucky to assist companies offering new and innovative services, including financial services. As regulation on new fields is often insufficient, it is her mission to make sure that lack of experience in our court system will not stop clients from executing new and innovative solutions that have the power to improve our lives.

Cross-border disputes. A large part of Triin' work concerns recognition and enforcement in Estonia of foreign court judgments and arbitral awards. She has always been passionate about private international law and her master’s thesis also concentrated on this field. Triin often works with cases involving EU law and have advised clients in matters where the Estonian courts refer questions to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for a preliminary ruling. Among these was the first preliminary reference submitted by an Estonian court which was discussed by the Grand Chamber of the ECJ.

Empowering others. Triin Toom enjoys giving lectures on the topics she cares about, such as EU law, argumentation skills and moot courts at the University of Tartu and the Sorainen Student Academy. Every year, she is actively involved in helping students from the University of Tartu to prepare for the European Law Moot Court competition. As a student, Triin had the possibility to successfully represent her university in the same competition and also to participate in the Estonian Moot Court Competition, which our team won. She believes that moot court competitions provide one of the best possibilities for students to prepare for work as successful litigation lawyers.

Estonian, English, French

Estonian Bar Association Board of the Estonian Bar Association The European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) Estonia

University of Salzburg, Austria (summer university, European Private Law) Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France (exchange student 2012-2013) University of Tartu, Estonia (MA in Law, cum laude) University of Tartu, Estonia (BA in Law)