Commercial Law & Litigation

Advising clients on a commercial law issue, whether contentious or non-contentious, never allows for ready-made solutions. Only a lawyer understanding both the world of commerce and the business of the concrete client may succeed. That is why for usual services such as conducting due diligence exercises, commercial drafting, issuing legal opinion letters for financiers, we have developed a number of innovative legal products such as compliance due diligence programme and legal risk management programme.

We dare to challenge anyone who says litigation must always be avoided. Where you have a contract, you will get a dispute, but where you have a dispute, you may get a settlement. Commercial dispute resolution means unexpected solutions. This may be asking the court for an injunction before even starting proceedings, request to the court to encumber the defendant's property with a mortgage, but also mediation and arbitration.

The current economic situation in Estonia resulted in a drastic increase of companies’ insolvencies. We regularly carry out both contentious and non-contentious insolvency work. Cost-effective insolvency needs strategic planning and its further thorough implementation allowing the client to get most of his claims. Insolvency may be also a good instrument for corporate restructuring giving the insolvent company a fresh start.

Competition Law

Competition law is not about just EC merger regulation. This part of law influences nearly all contracts and businesses are always at risk being caught up with misusing their dominant position or entering into cartels. Therefore, in this legal area we mostly deal with review of contracts, evaluation of whether merger constitutes a controllable merger under EU or local law and draft applications for competition clearance. Our competition law compliance programme is also worth noticing. In case things go wrong and a penal law investigation has been started, we provide defence to companies and their top managers both at interviews at the competition authorities and during dawr raids as well as in the criminal court.

Maritime law

Greinoman & Co advises clients on commodities trading issues across a wide range of commodities, including steam coal, grain and timber under INCOTERMS or otherwise. Another part of our admiralty and maritime law practice is ship finance and chartering, as well as crew disputes.

Our legal advice in this area of law is always technically accurate but also commercially aware. When and whenever necessary, we work with our colleagues in England, Finland, Russia and Hong Kong, offering our clients an integrated cross-jurisdictional advice.