Our team is recognised on national and international levels for outstanding knowledge and experience as well as efficient and personalised service. To preserve our good reputation, we are particular about selecting new lawyers with expertise in certain specific areas of law and capable of blending into the team.

Our clients include mainly Estonian companies, governmental institutions and municipalities and to a lesser degree the private individuals, both Estonian and foreign nationals. We also act for international financial, trading, insurance, property and industrial consortiums and their Estonian subsidiaries.

Besides handling their day to day work of providing advice to the clients, our attorneys Asko Pohla, Toivo Viilup and Martin Männik are internationally recognised arbitrators who have acted as arbitrators and represented parties in several arbitration disputes in various European countries.

Pohla & Hallmägi has knowledge and extensive experience in debt collection based on applicable EU Regulations, including but not limited to the jurisdictions of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany and other EU member states.

Pohla & Hallmägi has extensive experience in representing Clients inter alia concerning EC and Estonian competition law matters.

Our professionals provide their services in addition to Estonian also in English, Russian, Finnish, Swedish and German.

The firm specialises in a broad range of legal services including: (listed in alphabetical order)

2019

• Representing state owned transport company in the dispute with Russian Railways
• Advising Estonian companies on the transfer of the shares of the Lithuanian company
• Advising the corporate restructure of the Estonian origin leading metal industry company
• Successful representing of French origin Idemia in the ID card tender dispute in all the court instances
• Representing Norwegian origin investors on acquiring the new warehouse and office houses close to Tallinn Airport
• Representing Estonian leading metal industry on starting the litigations in one of the major bankruptcy proceedings
• Representing the Norwegian owned metal industry company in selling the business to local industry
• Representing Autospirit on acquisition of Ascar Auto from Amserv Group

2018

• Representing of Kunda Sadam on acquisition of logistic companies in the port
• Managing Partner Asko Pohla participated in development and adoption of the Rules on the efficient conduct of proceedings in International arbitration („the Prague rules“) in Prague (Czech Republic)
• Representing the Latvian investor on acquisition of shares and establishing a joint venture with the oil company of British origin to refuel the aircrafts in Tallinn Airport
• Representing the state of Estonia in the dispute with the company illegally occupying the area in Tallinn port
• Advising the worlds´ leading pharmaceutical company on business transfer to the Italian origin pharmaceutical company
• Successful representing of the owner of Põhjakeskus (shopping centre near Rakvere, Estonia) in the litigations creating precedents against Olympic Entertainment Group and Aurum.
• Advising Norwegian origin metal industry company on the transactions with the investor
• Advising Danish origin world´s leading pharmaceutical company on establishing the clinical trial center in Estonia
• Representing Baltic Maritime Logistics Group on the acquisition of Kunda Port
• Representing the ship-building company on signing the almost 100 million euro shipbuilding agreement in Germany
• Advising the seller on signing the residential and commercial real estate sales transaction to be developed at Kentmanni Street, Tallinn
• Advising the worlds´ leading pharmaceutical companies regarding GDPR
• Representing an Estonian real estate developer in renovation and leasing of shopping centre to RIMI Eesti Food AS
• Representing an Estonian furniture producer in acquiring a competitor furniture factory
• Representing a Norwegian client on signing significant lease agreement in the Porto Franco area in Tallinn
• Representing Hansapost in merger with Finnish Hobby Hall
• Representing owners of Megameedia in share sale
• Representing owner of Buduaar Meedia on share sale to TV3
• Consulting and representing a shipowner regarding the sale of a ship to the Greek purchaser
• Representing an owner company of an operator located in Muuga port in a bankruptcy procedure
• Drafting several contracts for ship repair (new building outfitting, refurbishments, piping systems, voyage ship repair, engineering, design) regarding the ship repair company activity expansion abroad
• Drafting a legal opinion in the bankruptcy case of Estonian Air regarding the possible claims against the partners of Estonian Air abroad
• Representing a client in joint property division and claims regarding the use of joint property
• Representing a client regarding the claim to free a real estate property from illegal possession in the area of Paljassaare port
• Representing GlaxoSmithKline in working out the agreement package with Tehnopol, Tallinn
• Representing the ship owner registered in Norway and belonging to Arabian and Norwegian investors regarding the ship arrest in Tallinn

2017

• Representation of Pärnu Airport in execution of the decision of Estonian Government to invest 20 million EUR to develop Pärnu Airport
• Representation of Norwegian machinery industry entrepreneur in execution of corporate changes in its Estonian subsidiary
• Representation of Norwegian real estate developer in acquisition of cash flow property in Tallinn City center
• Representation of Tallinn Airport in receiving the exemption from European Commission to Estonia of provision of certain groundhandling services in Tallinn Airport
• Representation of Norwegian real estate developer in acquisition of unfinished business property
• Representation of Estonian real estate developer in reconstruction and renting out a shopping center
• Representation of Norwegian client in dispute with Estonian construction company
• Consulting of Coal Terminal AS and its shareholder
• Representation of Norwegian retail trade entrepreneur on effecting activity, purchasing business premises and concluding lease agreements
• Representing Norwegian leading real estate fund on restructuring Latvian and Lithuanian subsidiaries
• Representing Norwegian real estate developers in Arbitration Court of ECCI against the Swedish defendant
• Representing client in ship construction in Western Europe, transport to Estonia and finalizing the construction
• Representing key persons of Copterline in bankruptcy procedure
• Representing Danish pharmaceutical company in establishment and starting of center for clinical trials
• Representing Estonian infrastructure company in transferring the activity of one gas company to another
• Consulting Karmsund Grupp in purchasing business properties and leasing to seller
• Representing Norwegian machinery concern in dispute with Estonian minority shareholder
• Representing Norwegian machinery concern in dispute between the shareholders, regulating the structure and merging the subsidiaries
• Consulting Estonian infrastructure company in transferring the waterways to local government
• Toivo Viilup represented successfully Koch and Mullari in dispute with Äripäev
• Representation of Estonian retail company in entering to Norwegian retail market
• Representation of Estonian-Norwegian construction company in dispute with German client regarding producing and supplying refugee homes to Germany

2016

• Advising Tallinn International Airport on lending from European Investment Bank (30 MEUR) and Nordic Investment Bank (24 MEUR)
• 30.11.2016 Pohla & Hallmägi was recognized on the basis of 2015 statistics 8th best business consulting company in Estonia being on 4th place amongst law firms
• Representing successfully Handelsbanken AB in declaring the bankruptcy of Rene Kuulmann, Äripäev mentioned inaccurately that we represented Rene Kuulmann
• Representing successfully OÜ Tallinngaas in the dispute with AS Eesti Gaas in the Supreme Court (Riigikohus)
• Consulting Estonian the bankruptcy national aviation company in claiming the debts from the service provider
• Consulting Norwegian investors in Arbitration Court by claiming the damage from the Swedish real estate developer
• Consulting Norwegian investors in acquiring, developing the shopping center in the living area of Tallinn and in the sale of the center to the company noted in the stock exchange
• Consulting Norwegian investors in purchase and sale of several apartments in Tallinn
• Consulting Norwegian investors in purchase of business real estate in the city center of Tallinn
• Representing successfully French company in the ID-card production procurement dispute with Police and Border Guard Board
• Consulting of the Danish pharmaceutical company in starting the clinical trials Project in Estonia
• Representing Norwegian investors in sale of the shopping center in Pärnu
• Consulting the sale of the shares of medical center Qvalitas
• Representing the Norwegian investors in the sale of the shopping center in Tallinn
• Consulting the Government of Estonia in restructuring of Estonian Air
• Representing Handelsbanken AB in several insolvency disputes
• Representing of EVR Cargo in the dispute regarding the ban of use of the freight wagons established by Russia

All attorneys of Pohla & Hallmägi are the members of the Estonian Bar Association, Asko Pohla and Jüri Ploom are the members of International Bar Association. Pohla & Hallmägi is the member of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Norwegian-Estonian Chamber of Commerce, Estonian Swedish Chamber of Commerce and first gold member of ICC-Estonia.

Our firm has successfully developed relationships with a wide range of partner firms in practically all countries of Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Our contacts with American, African, Asian and Australian law firm colleagues are also close.

Pohla & Hallmägi has remained independent and refused all proposals for merger with other law firms or joining professional chains. The firm enjoys its independence and the right to choose those expert partner firms in other countries that could best meet the particular requirements of the client and thereby to avoid the compulsory selection of a firm from among the partner firms from the network.

We value dedication to and friendly relations with our clients, also friendly atmosphere at work and are of the opinion that such relations can be maintained in everyday life only in a firm of moderate size.

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Pohla & Hallmägi is interested in recruiting young talented lawyers.

We have decided to recruit young graduates from Tartu University or foreign univesities. However, we do not exclude hiring lawyers with practical experience. The firm is seeking candidates with a solid academic background and capable of further development. The candidates are expected to be interested in joining the Estonian Bar Association and after some years of practice to obtain LLM degree at a foreign university.

We have constantly had trainees in the firm for the period of a couple of months maximum. Some of the trainees have later joined the firm. We have had trainees from foreign universities as well.

If you are interested to work or undergo training in our firm please contact us at jurist@phlaw.ee and send your application and C.V. Should there be no response within a couple of weeks, it would indicate that we have not been able to hire you or have you as a trainee.

An additional condition for a candidate or a future trainee is proficiency in at least two foreign languages (preferably Russian and English). References will be appreciated.