Region: Estonia

Estonia

Featured in GCR 100 2023

Competition lawyers in Estonia advise clients on an increasing number of state aid cases, alongside significant behavioural matters.

12 December 2022

Estonia: economist perspective

Featured in Enforcer Hub

11 October 2022

Estonia blocks postal merger for a second time

The Estonian Competition Authority has blocked the national postal operator from acquiring its only rival, 11 years after prohibiting the same attempted merger.

07 October 2022

UPDATE: Estonian authority head steps down

Lawyer Evelin Pärn-Lee will replace Märt Ots as director general of the Estonian Competition Authority as the latter’s 14-year tenure comes to an end this week.

04 August 2022

Baltic enforcers urge ICN to suspend Russian competition agency

The heads of the Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian competition agencies have called on the International Competition Network to suspend Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service over the country’s “unacceptable” and “outrageous” invasion of Ukraine.

25 February 2022

Estonia

Featured in GCR 100 2022

Estonia’s competition bar might be small, but its lawyers continue to advise clients on a host of abuse of dominance cases.

10 December 2021

Estonia

Featured in GCR 100 2021

Much of the work done by Estonia’s small competition bar involves advising Baltic clients on state aid probes and obtaining timely clearances for mergers amid the unprecedented covid-19 pandemic.

11 December 2020

Estonia

06 November 2019

DG Comp takes agro deal from national enforcers

The European Commission has required two industrial machine manufacturers to notify it of their proposed merger, though four national enforcers were independently reviewing the deal.

07 February 2019

Estonia’s top court confirms vodka cartel

Estonia’s Supreme Court has upheld the criminal price-fixing convictions of a vodka company and four supermarket, upholding €11 million in fines awarded in the country’s largest-ever cartel case.

09 June 2017

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