` Liina Saaremets | COBALT

Liina Saaremets

Senior Associate / Estonia

About

Liina Saaremets is a senior associate at COBALT Estonia. Liina mainly specialises in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate law. She has been involved in numerous international and domestic M&A transactions, including share and asset deals, financial and strategic investments, exits and restructurings. She advises clients at every stage of M&A transactions, from auction, legal due diligence and drafting transaction documents, through closing and post-closing matters. She also advises on various corporate matters, shareholder relations and provides general counselling for companies.

Liina has been a member of the Estonian Bar Association since 2015.

Practice

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Languages

  • Estonian, English

Membership & education

  • Member of the Estonian Bar Association (since 2015)
  • Master of Arts in Law (MA), University of Tartu, Faculty of Law, Estonia (2015)
  • Bachelor of Arts in Law (BA), University of Tartu, Faculty of Law, Estonia (2013)
Experience

Combiwood Group acquires the Estonian wood supply business from Metsä Group

YOOK Production raises EUR 13 million to establish the first oat drink factory in the Baltics

COBALT advises the majority shareholder of AS TOODE, Amber Trust II S.C.A. in the sale of its shares to Kingspan Group

COBALT advised SCHWENK on acquiring a majority stake in Betoonimeister

COBALT advised Bidcorp on acquiring a majority stake in Fruit Xpress OÜ

COBALT advised the sale of district heating network company VKG Soojus to Gren

COBALT advised Ekspress Group on acquiring Geenius Meedia

COBALT advised Asteria Group on the acquisition of Nordic Label and Data Print

COBALT advised European Lingerie Group on raising a 27-million euro loan and investment

COBALT advises Treeland OÜ in the acquisition of a majority stake in Lido AS

COBALT advised Levine Leichtman Capital Partners on acquiring Creditinfo

COBALT advised Ambient Sound Investments in sale of InBio to Semetron

COBALT advised AS Helmes on acquiring the shares of T2T

COBALT advised Fortumo on selling its business to Boku

COBALT advises Lauma Fabrics on delivery of COVID-19 personal protective equipment to Estonia and Latvia

COBALT advised Baltic Agro Machinery OÜ on the sale of John Deere business

COBALT advised DA Agravis Machinery Holding on acquiring 55% of AS Konekesko Eesti

COBALT advised Luminor, Nordea and DNB on closing transaction with Blackstone

COBALT advised Silberauto on selling its business in Estonia and Lithuania

COBALT advised funds advised by Apax Partners on acquiring the Baltic Classifieds Group

COBALT advised shareholders of TMB Group on selling a major part of its business to Consolis

COBALT advises BaltCap on selling Fitek

COBALT advised NEXTCLINICS on acquiring F-Est OÜ

COBALT advised Vink Nordic Holding ApS on acquiring Proplastik

COBALT advised European Diversified Infrastructure Fund II on investment in Utilitas, leading private Estonian energy group

COBALT advised Luminor on EUR 1 billion majority stake acquisition by Blackstone

COBALT advised shareholders of TMB Group on selling its business to Consolis Group

COBALT advises MyInvest Estonia OÜ on selling Bauhof Group AS

COBALT advised Port of Tallinn on its IPO and listing on Nasdaq Tallinn Stock Exchange

COBALT advised DiDi Chuxing in relation with an investment round of Taxify

COBALT advises HHLA on acquiring Estonia’s biggest terminal operator Transiidikeskuse AS

COBALT advised Ambient Sound Investment on sale of Ecofleet Holding

COBALT advised Yliopiston Apteekki OY on selling its pharmacy chain

COBALT advised BPM Capital on financing the acquisition of Corle

COBALT advised Karma Ventures on its investment in Minut, Inc

COBALT advised BPM Capital on financing the investment of Tahe Outdoors

COBALT advised DNB on the creation of Luminor – largest ever transaction in the Baltic banking market

COBALT advises Alexela Oil on acquisition of Euro Oil petrol stations

COBALT advised NASDAQ OMX Tallinn listed AS Ekspress Grupp regarding foundation of a new affiliated company OÜ Kinnisvarakeskkond

COBALT advised Didi Chuxing on investment in Estonian-based transport app Taxify

COBALT advised venture capital funds Creathor Venture and MTIP (MedTech Innovation Partners) in financing the Finnish startup Blueprint Genetics.

COBALT advises the sale of successful start-up Teleport

COBALT advises Santa Monica Networks on sale of its Finnish-Baltic subsidiaries

COBALT advises DAVA Agravis Machinery Holding on acquisition of 45% of shares in Konekesko Ltd

COBALT advises BaltCap in acquiring of Selecta business operations in the Baltics