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Fort Adds Mediator in Estonia

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The Estonian office of Fort has announced that Ilona Nurmela, a commercial mediator, has joined its team as Counsel.

Nurmela is a former General Counsel and Management Board member of a NASDAQ OMX-listed company, and has 12 years of experience in dispute resolution and prevention. She has a background in utilities, regulatory, contract management and IT, and helps businesses and their legal advisors to conduct classical (non-legal) and adjudicative mediations of international as well as local disputes in Estonian, Russian and English.

Talinn Managing Partner Kuldar-Jaan Torokoff was enthusiastic about Nurmela's decision to come on board, exclaiming that: "I can say on behalf of our firm that we are very proud that she has joined our team. Her recruitment marks a significant step in development of our dispute management practice. It is our strong belief that courts should always be treated as a last resort and our law firm hopes to promote mediation in general in the Estonian legal culture. We are confident that with the help of her unique skill-set and experience our law firm shall stand out in the market as the leading law firm in the field of mediation."

 

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