At WALLESS, the team garners praise for its expertise in representing lenders in transactional work. Key areas of instruction for the group include cross-border financings and debt and equity capital markets transactions. Regulatory matters are also prominent in the team’s workload. Practice co-head Andres Siigur is well-versed in acting as counsel to financial institutions on mandates, and practice co-head Hannes Vallikivi brings experience in advising on structured finance, project finance and derivatives, to name a few areas. Kaisa Saarmann acts on financial regulatory cases and bond issuance matters.
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- 'Andres Siigur, Rolan Jankelevitsh and Kaisa Saarmann have been great from start to finish, providing excellent advice throughout, thorough and responsive.'
- 'The team was a pleasure to work with. Always responsive, highly commercial, very thorough and offering innovative solutions.'
- 'Andres Siigur is always available to discuss issues. Kaisa Saarmann is responsive and helpful.'
- 'Walless has great expertise in cross border financings and is able to efficiently advise on local law diligence, security and financing issues. We see them as experts in advising lenders to the Estonian market. They are proactive in their advice.'
- Andres Siigur, Rolan Jankelevitsh, and Kaisa Saarmann have been great from start to finish - providing excellent advice throughout, being thorough and responsive, and a pleasure to work with.
- Waless has great expertise in cross-border financings and is able to efficiently advise on local law diligence, security, and financing issues. We see them as experts in advising lenders to the Estonian market. They are proactive in their advice.
Key clients
- ALD Automotive
- Aosphere
- Avolon Aerospace
- Capitalica
- Cognitech
- Crowdestate
- East Capital
- Elisa
- Estonian Centre for Defence Investment
- EveryPay
- Firebird
- Hansa Group
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Practice head
Andres Siigur; Hannes Vallikivi
Other key lawyers
Kaisa Saarmann; Rolan Jankelevitsh