At WALLESS, sector strengths include energy, infrastructure, real estate and telecoms. In addition, the group has particular experience in the financial services sector and has the ‘capabilities and capacity to handle any kind of finance and capital market transaction’. The team is overseen by Rolan Jankelevitsh, one of the many ’creative lawyers and good negotiators’ in the practice. Toomas Taube is a standout team member for corporate advice; Margo Lemetti is an expert in reorganisation proceedings; and senior associate Kaisa Üksik works on many of the group’s large transactions. In early 2024, the practice gained the expertise of Minni-Triin Park, Kuldar-Jaan Torokoff and their team following the firm’s merger with FORT.
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‘Experienced team with good knowledge. Excellent service and very responsive. They have all the necessary capabilities and capacity to handle any kind of finance and capital market transaction. Their lawyers are creative and good negotiators. They always find solutions allowing the deal to go forward.’
‘Walless has high standards of quality.'
‘Walless has a great client account management culture. Our organisation has a dedicated core contact for every legal request. Over the years this has led to knowing each other in detail and this further boosts the effectiveness.’
‘The Walless team knows us very well and is able to think from our perspective in order to provide solutions.’
‘Always available and ready to speak.’
‘We can describe the practice as a highly efficient and cooperative team of professionals. They have an individual approach to clients' needs and deep knowledge in all areas that allows them to find the best solution for their client.’
Key clients
- HeidelbergCement
- Nortal
- BE Group
- éolane Tallinn
- Bigbank Group
- Alludo
- LMT
- Magnetic MRO Group
- Mandatum Life Insurance Company
- Šiaulių Bankas
Work highlights
- Advised a local renewable energy company on the sale of two large-scale fully developed solar parks to various local and international investors.
- Advising Šiaulių Bankas on the merger of its and INVL Invalda’s pension and investment fund businesses in the Baltics.
- Advising Turnit on negotiating the commercial contract with Samtrafiken, transferring a large part of Sweden’s bus, train and urban multi-modal transport ticketing system to Turnit’s software platform.
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Rolan Jankelevitsh