Office
Law office Laus & Partners was founded in 1992 in Tallinn. We are a traditional law office with many years of experience providing a full range of professional legal services in all areas of law. Our eight attorneys and one lawyer represent individual clients as well as corporations and institutions in complex civil and administrative matters in courts, before administrative agencies and in alternative dispute resolution proceedings. We also counsel clients on a wide range of issues to prevent problems from arising or escalating into litigation. We are deemed as a mid-sized law firm in Estonia with experienced support staff and extensive legal resources. The law office has long time practise in big bankruptcy cases.
Our legal representation is founded upon years of experience in our areas of practice. In order to provide the best advice and assistance to our clients, we mainly specialize in civil and contract law, business and company law, property and real estate law, bankruptcy law, administrative law, labour law, intellectual property law, European Union law, litigation and arbitration. We are professionals in business and civil law having experience in conducting many international transactions, IPO process, establishing banks etc.
The law office provides diversified legal services to individuals and business entities, including commercial banks, manufacturing companies, professional and other services companies, health care entities, real estate development companies, oil and oil transit service companies, broadcasting companies and not-for-profit institutions. You can find a brief description of all services on our services page.
Partner Raivo Laus is a judge in the Court of Arbitration of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and is substitute judge in Court of Honour in Estonian Bar Association.
We provide legal services in Estonian, Russian and English languages.
Law office Laus & Partners is the member of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and international network of independent law firms network ADVOC.
Some recent highlights
May 2026 – Attorney-at-law Viktor Särgava represented our client in a three-year-long legal dispute between former spouses over the division of joint property, in which the central issue was the application of various European Union and member state laws. The court ruled in favor of our client and dismissed the opposing party’s claims in their entirety.
May 2026 – Attorney-at-law Viktor Särgava represented our client in a complex of multi-faceted loan dispute, in which the court ruled in our client’s favor.
April 2026 – Attorney Kaspar Koppel successfully defended a client in Pärnu County Court in a complex criminal case involving European Union subsidies. According to the indictment, the total amount of subsidies obtained through fraud was nearly 2 million euros. The Pärnu County Court fully acquitted our client of all charges.
April 2026 – Attorney Kaspar Koppel represented our client in the Tallinn Circuit Court in a complex legal dispute, the central issue of which centered on whether business operations had been covertly transferred from one company to another in such a way that assets were transferred but liabilities were left behind. In legal terminology, this would be referred to as a “ business transition.” Our client was the aggrieved creditor, and the Tallinn Circuit Court largely upheld our client’s claim.
September 2025 –Sworn advocate Mr Viktor Särgava represented our client in a complex real estate transaction that involved multiple amendments to notarial agreements and resulted in a payment of over 5 million EUR to our client.
March 2025 – Sworn advocate Mr Raivo Laus represented our client in proceedings, where a foreign court judgment awarding approximately 1 million EUR to our client was recognized and declared enforceable in Estonia.
May 2024 – Sworn advocate Mr Raivo Laus represented our client for whose benefit the opposing party’s bank accounts were frozen for more than 2 million EUR as security for the claim.