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TGS Baltic ‘always delivers the result quickly’. The firm has a particular focus on data protection, and also fields a team of ‘excellent IP law specialists’ including senior associate Silvia Urgas, who is often involved in IP disputes. Peeter Viirsalu is also well versed in disputes, in addition to working with clients on matters connected to distressed assets. Priit Lätt joined as head of the IP and IT department in early 2024 following the firm’s merger with PwC Legal. Mari-Liis Orav left the firm.

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  • ‘Cooperation and commitment.’

  • 'TGS Baltic always quickly finds a professional person to work with us and delivers the result quickly.’

  • ‘I find it very useful and important that before digging into the task they first make sure they understand the challenge and then offer the most reasonable solution. If needed, they communicate directly with our counterparties.’

  • ‘Great at IP, easy to contact, take their duty seriously.’

  • ‘The team is truly specialist in their respective fields and work extremely well together. You receive excellent quality.’

  • ‘We mainly work with Peeter Viirsalu, who knows our field of business very well and can therefore deliver quality. We have also worked with Silvia Urgas and Mari-Liis Orav who are excellent IP law specialists.’

  • 'Absolute top specialists with very good understanding of commercial aspects and needs of a specific client. Highly efficient (the speed of getting feedback and answers is incredible) and flexible approach, focused on a client and a specific solution. Interested in and contributing into the general development of the sector as such, not only oriented in providing legal consulting.'

  • 'Priit Lätt is an outstanding attorney.'

Key clients

  • Merck Sharp & Dohme OÜ
  • Circle K Eesti Aktsiaselts
  • MTÜ Eesti Muuseumiühing
  • Aktsiaselts Eesti Post (Omniva)
  • Eesti Autorite Ühing (Estonian Authors’ Society)
  • Fujitsu Estonia AS
  • Veriff OÜ
  • The City of Tartu and Tartu 2024 Foundation
  • Auto-Bon Baltic OÜ and AutoHalle Aktsiaselts
  • Inchcape Motors Estonia OÜ
  • CityBee and MyBee
  • ERGO Insurance SE
  • Adcash OÜ
  • Better Medicine OÜ
  • Mooncascade OÜ
  • AS Eesti Loots
  • Eesti Tudengisatelliidi Sihtasutus (Estonian Student Satellite Foundation)
  • Timbeco Woodhouse OÜ
  • Bondora Group AS
  • Volta1 OÜ
  • FitSphere OÜ
  • Steven Micallef
  • Francorp Baltic
  • Fairown Finance OÜ
  • Estonian E-residency team
  • Estonian Actors Union
  • Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF)
  • SK ID Solutions
  • GuardTime
  • Tietoevry Estonia
  • Nortal
  • Estonian Railways
  • Solid World
  • LimeWire
  • The European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA)
  • Rush Street Interactive
  • Vichy Catalan
  • Delfi Meedia
  • North Estonia Medical Centre Foundation (Põhja-Eesti Regionaalhaigla)
  • Ülemiste Center
  • NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence
  • teledisko DAO OÜ

Work highlights

  • Advised venture capital fund NFT.VC on making an investment into FoodTech startup äio tech OÜ.
  • Advised an IT specialist based in Switzerland on the sale of his Estonian company SM7 Software to Intel 471.

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Priit Lätt
Attorney-at-Law Priit Lätt is a Partner at PwC Legal Eesti responsible for the fields of IP/IT, tax disputes and public procurement at PwC Legal in Estonia. Priit is a renowned specialist in IP, IT (including the internet of things and cryptocurrencies), tax and public procurement law, representing and advising Estonian and international companies and public institutions. Priit also has significant experience in representing clients in disputes which have created precedents at the Supreme Court, including the constitutional review chamber. Among other things, Priit has represented a client in Estonia’s biggest software dispute and in Estonia’s first bitcoin-related legal regulation lawsuit. Priit also successfully represented a client in a trademark dispute, in which the Supreme Court declared several important provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, and Government Regulations that established limits to legal expenses in civil disputes, as invalid and unconstitutional. Priit participated as the only attorney in a public and private sector work group, which for the first time in Estonia developed a recommended standard contract for the public procurement of software development. Priit has given many presentations at seminars and conferences, and has published articles on several legal issues. He is also a lecturer in the IT law training program at the University of Tartu on the subject of IT contracts.  

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Priit Lätt

Other key lawyers

Peeter Viirsalu, Silvia Urgas