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Toomas Pikamäe

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Toomas is a Partner in our Tallinn office.

Partner Toomas manages the Law Office's team specializing in public law, environmental law, and penal law. 

Toomas has conducted tens of legal analyses since 1996, more than ten of which are in the fields of public and administrative law. He has represented both public and private sector clients in administrative court.

Toomas advises clients on many issues concerning environmental law, from compliance issues up to environmental management systems and has particular experience in waste handling issues.

Moreover, Toomas has accumulated extensive experience in the field of economic offenses, e.g., offenses concerning taxation matters, competition and other business-related offenses, and provides clients advice with a view to preventing such offenses and in proceedings connected with the same.

Toomas has extensive knowledge of Estonian tax law. He advises clients in a wide range of tax-related issues, i.a. double taxation, corporate income tax, VAT, tax planning, transfer pricing, and taxation of permanent establishments and taxation of individuals. Toomas's competence has been noted in the international taxation handbook Tax Director's Handbook.

Toomas has successfully represented clients in several cases, which have been ultimately referred to the Supreme Court. He has also represented clients in multiple European Court of Justice cases.  

Furthermore, he is a well-appreciated lecturer at seminars dealing with administrative law

 

Career

2002-… Law Office Eversheds Sutherland Ots & Co   

2000-2002  AS PricewaterhouseCoopers

1998-2000  Law Office Mägi & Partners   

1995-1998  Ministry of Justice

  • Advising and successfully represented a state authority in the court in technically and legally very complex dispute that has gained huge media attention, in shutting down two operating fish processing factories due to public health reasons and the court refused to grant interim relief against such closedown. 
  • Representing Nexo Services OÜ, Nexo Capital Inc. and Credissimo EAD in an administrative case where clients filed a complaint against Estonian Financial Supervision and Resolution Authority to remove warning notice which had been published regarding clients with a claim that client as providing unauthorized financial service in Estonia.
  • Reprsenting Ecobay OÜ in several court proceedings. Ecobay OÜ is the real estate developing company, which owns 48 ha land in the north of Tallinn by the sea. The company plans to develop the land into a residential and business district. The detailed plan process was commenced in 2010. So far City of Tallinn has been unable to establish the detail plan. City of Tallinn, simultaneously with the detailed plan, is engaged in the proceedings of the general plan of the Northern Tallinn district. Under the draft general plan, the company’s land is turned in the green area available to everyone, i.e., making the company’s real estate developing plans impossible.
  • Reprsenting Pro Kapital Eesti AS, a real estate company, in the court proceedings regarding to land tax.

Toomas’s competence has been recognized by independent international publications:

  •     Chambers Global and Chambers Europe 2023 (Dispute resolution)
  •     Legal 500 (Dispute resolution, EU and competition, Real estate and construction, Tax)

 

Client feedback

Chambers Global and Europe 2023: Toomas Pikamäe is well known for his work in administrative disputes. He also assists clients with tax, procurement and construction litigation.

Toomas Pikamäe covers environmental claims, financial disputes and matters pertaining to white-collar crime. "He is very reliable," a client says, adding: "He is precise and goes strictly to the point. There are no unnecessary or long meetings or phone communications."

  • Estonian Bar Association
  • 1998 University of Tartu, Faculty of Law / Officially equated to Master’s degree
Toomas Pikamäe

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Toomas Pikamäe

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