Our Risk Management, Corporate Crime Investigations & Defence team helped Tallinn city government to formulate its new anti-corruption strategy. To outline the strategy, research was carried out from June 2018 to March 2019. This mainly covered three areas: review of the city’s internal policies and their legality; supervision of property transactions; and random inspection of […]
We represented Kaefer, a construction services provider, in a landmark dispute where the Estonian courts explained the principles of burden of proof in cases involving a claim for remuneration under a contract for services. Kaefer had concluded a contract for services with Isoest, under which Isoest had to insulate the pipes in a cogeneration plant. […]
Tallinn City mayor Taavi Aas has formed a working group tasked with developing an anti-corruption strategy for the city. The Sorainen white-collar investigation team, consisting of counsel Norman Aas, partner Carri Ginter and associate Merika Nimmo, has been invited by Tallinn City government to participate in the working group as external advisor. The Sorainen team […]
On 5 March, the European Court of Justice delivered a judgment that found the sales tax imposed from 1 June 2010 to 31 December 2011 in Tallinn, Estonia, to be a violation of EU law and the excise duty directive. This means that illegally collected sales tax must be returned to companies, with interest. Our […]
Sorainen represented the European Commission jointly with members of the Commission’s legal service in proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg under a preliminary reference (TFEU article 267). The case concerned a reference by an Estonian appeal court as to proper interpretation of the rules for fees on official controls […]
