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Former Varul Partner Ants Mailand Joins Sorainen Estonia

Former Varul Partner Ants Mailand Joins Sorainen Estonia

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Sorainen has announced that former Varul Partner Ants Mailend has joined the firm’s Tallinn office as a Partner, where he will strengthen the Sorainen Dispute Resolution Team as well as its Commercial Contracts Team and Intellectual Property Practice in Estonia.  

Ants Mailend was one of the five first Partners of the Varul law firm in Estonia, and was with that firm for over 20 years before joining Sorainen. “I have known Ants for more than 20 years as a person of high integrity and a great professional with a very good reputation within the legal community in Estonia,” commented Senior Partner Aku Sorainen. “In fact I tried to hire him 20 years ago when he returned to Estonia after finishing his master studies abroad and then again about 15 years ago, but he was very dedicated at that time to building up the firm he worked for back then.” Sorainen also praised Mailend as a strong “all-rounder,” since he has been practising in various fields of business law. “One aspect of our strategy is to gradually widen the scope of work for many of our lawyers and Ants fits well with this strategic approach,” Sorainen noted.

Mailend expressed his enthusiasm at joining Sorainen. "Over the years I have been watching the outstanding development of Sorainen with interest and respect,” he observed. “It is an honor and a professional challenge to join the leading and only truly integrated Baltic law firm.”  In addition, he noted the increasing importance of dispute resolution in legal business. “A large full service law firm should develop this practices in order to guarantee quality, increase market share, and have a balanced portfolio for leverage at times of market fluctuation.”

At Varul, Mailend managed the dispute resolution, banking & finance, corporate and M&A, and IT & IP practices. He has been a member of the Estonian Bar Association since 1996 and has also been on the board of the Estonian Bar Association for several years. He has regularly served as an arbitrator in institutional and ad hoc arbitrations. He studied law at the Universities of Tartu and Amsterdam, focusing on product liability and EU competition law. He also obtained an LL.M. from Amsterdam University in EU business law.  

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