Mag iur Kirill Ležeiko > TGS Baltic > Tallinn, Estonia > Lawyer Profile
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ADMIRAL HOUSE
AHTRI 6A
10151 TALLINN
Estonia
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Mag iur Kirill Ležeiko
Work Department
Banking & Finance
Position
Kirill has worked as Head of Group Legal at FinTech financial institution SupplierPlus Group. Prior to that, he worked as a senior associate and attorney with the Banking and Finance practice at PwC Legal. Previously, Kirill also worked as Senior Counsel and Division Head within the Legal department at Eesti Energia AS, one of the largest multinational energy companies in the Baltic countries. Along with heading up and leading teams of lawyers, Kirill also acted as a counsel for the Treasury, Financial Risk Management and Financial Trading departments on a wide range of legal matters. As part of that experience, Kirill has developed a solid understanding of the needs and expectations of business with respect to legal service deliverables.
Throughout his professional career, Kirill has been involved in advising on and coordinating complex transactions, often in the context of international projects involving several jurisdictions and legal and tax teams. More specifically, he provided legal support for a number of Eurobond issues, including the benchmark €500 million issue for the Estonian market in 2015. He also advised on numerous multi-million euro term and revolving credit facilities, including those from the European Investment Bank, and due diligence and restructuring exercises as part of the preparation for potential IPOs.
Kirill has a sharp practical understanding of the commodity derivatives trading business and has in-depth experience in negotiating and drafting ISDA documentation and other transaction instruments in connection with financial trading. He advised on the analysis and implementation of the comprehensive in-house measures in response to the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II and MiFIR).
Kirill holds two LLM degrees, one in International Commercial Arbitration from Stockholm University and the other in Finance from the Institute for Law and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt. He was also involved as a trainee with the Capital Markets & Structured Finance team in the Frankfurt office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.
Languages
Estonian, Russian, English
Lawyer Rankings
Estonia > Banking, finance and capital markets
Major banks in the region, such as Coop Pank, turn to the finance team at TGS Baltic. In 2022 and 2023, the group was involved in some of the largest transactions in the country, and it is also active in complex regulatory matters. Kirsti Pent, who leads the team, has a great deal of experience in banking law, particularly in mandates related to financial innovation. Kirill Ležeiko was a new arrival in 2024 following the firm’s merger with PwC Legal.