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Kaarel Eller

Senior Associate / Estonia

Contacts 

kaarel.eller@cobalt.legal
+372665 1888

About

Kaarel Eller is a Senior Associate of the COBALT Estonian banking and finance practice group. Kaarel has extensive experience in the public sector, including long experience in the Ministry of Finance, where he held various positions in the Financial Markets Department and later on as the Head of the Legal Department. There he was tasked with drafting some major legislative acts for the Estonian financial sector, including the first Estonian covered bond act and transposing PSD2 into the Estonian payment institutions and e-money institutions act. Prior to joining COBALT, Kaarel worked for an international law firm.

Kaarel is a member of the Estonian Bar Association since 2020.

Practice

Recognition
  • The Legal 500, Banking, Finance and Capital Markets/Fintech, Rising Star – 2023 / 2024
CV

Languages

  • Estonian, English, German

Membership & education

  • Estonian Bar Association (2020)
  • Bachelor of Arts degree, (equal to master´s degree qualifications), Faculty of Law, University of Tartu (2006)
  • Humboldt University Berlin, guest student (2008)
Experience

COBALT successfully defends Swedbank in an alleged money laundering criminal case

Monemon AS received an e-money institution activity license from the Estonian Financial Supervision and Resolution Authority

COBALT advised Wise (TINV Europe AS) in several aspects of the licencing process for receipt of a licence of an investment firm

COBALT advised Quickbyte Global in several aspects of the licensing process for renewal of a licence of a virtual currency service provider

COBALT advised Change Ventures on creating their €20M Fund III

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