Languages: Estonian, Russian, Finnish, German, English
Maivi is the Managing Partner in our Tallinn office.
Managing Partner Maivi has more than 20 years of experience advising companies in many different aspects of business. Maivi's long-term clientele comprises both local businesses as well as major international corporations.
In the law office, Maivi leads the banking and finance law, corporate law as well as mergers and acquisitions (M&A) practices.
Being head of the banking and finance law team, Maivi specializes in complex commercial and financing transactions as well as regulatory issues relating to banking and finance. She is also experienced in insurance law issues.
Maivi has extensive experience in counseling in matters related to mergers and acquisitions. Her experience includes advising on more than 400 international deals. She has advised several top-value transactions, including a number of transactions that lead up to hundreds of millions in value.
She also plays an important role in the firm's real estate department. She is involved in large real estate transactions, and she has lately been elaborating unique financing schemes for real estate transactions.
Maivi has been a welcomed speaker at a number of public seminars and conferences as well as at corporate training events.
Client feedback
Chambers 2023: The highly established and widely respected Maivi Ots assists with corporate matters across a range of sectors including healthcare, technology and industrial. Clients enthuse that "Maivi Ots is very hands-on and experienced, her explanations are simple and straightforward, she always has a great ability to find the best solutions, she's quick and keeps to deadlines." 
Managing partner Maivi Ots is described by clients as "very client-orientated." Market commentators highlight her experience in real estate-related M&A work, with one remarking: "She is a good negotiator and quite practical."
Career
1999-… Law Office Eversheds Sutherland Ots & Co
1998-1999  Law Office Siigur & Roosalu
1997-1998  AS PricewaterhouseCoopers
Recent experience includes
Acted as the Estonian legal adviser to D1 Capital Partners LP (“D1”) whose affiliate was the lead purchaser in the secondary purchase of the shares of Bolt Technology OÜ (“Bolt”) from DiDi (HK) Science and Technology Limited and Rosy Passion Investment Limited (the “Sellers”). Our team also had a coordinative role among all co-purchasers, which included Darsana, certain Naya entities and individuals, GCM Grosvenor, Korelya, Alanda and certain others. As a result of the transactions, the Sellers exited from Bolt. This was one of the most high-value transactions last year.
For the purposes of preparing the sale of the cash business we advised G4S on complex restructuring to separate the cash business from the security business. The restructuring included foundation of two subsidiaries and two demergers in the course of which G4S Estonian cash business company was transferred to one of the founded subsidiaries and the shares in all Baltics cash companies were transferred to the other founded subsidiary which shares were sold. The restructuring included assistance with negotiations and applications to the authorities to obtain relevant licences of the Estonian cash business.
Advising Scoro in completing a $16.4 million Series B financing round. Scoro is an Estonian start-up specializing in the creation of work management software. The lead investor in the round was Kennet Partners, a leading international growth equity firm with previous investors, Columbia Lake Partners, Inventure, Livonia Partners and Tera Ventures also participating. The investment is significant because moved Scoro into an elite group of Estonian start-ups, which have raised more than $20 million in venture capital, including Skype, Wise, and Bolt. Eversheds advised the client in the Estonian corporate aspects of the investment.
Advising Eesti Keskkonnateenused on all aspects of an M&A transaction which ultimately took the form of a management buyout. The mandate included the conduct of vendor-due-diligence, development of the legal structure of the management buyout, development of the financing structure for the transaction, drafting and negotiating the share-purchase documentation, the shareholders’ agreement, all the corporate documentation and a large part of the financing documentation as well as managing an unusually complex and time-critical closing process.
Advising Swiss bank in establishing a collateral structure for a commodity financing arrangement in relation to a cross-border deal of up to $ 100m.
Advising on the establishment of a AIFM as well as a fund. The mandate included all the legal work pertaining to the establishment, registration, and licencing of the AIFM as well as drafting of the LPA and establishment of the fund. A particular trait of this mandate was the rather tight timing between our engagement and the fully operational fund receiving first investments.
Advising an African commercial bank on the Estonian law aspects of a facility agreement. The advice covered certain rather complex issues pertaining to applicable law (particularly to security arrangements), security arrangements themselves and rules on the jurisdiction.
Advising IPF Digital AS with the process of application for the e-money license from the Estonian Financial Supervisory Authority. As the result, the Client obtained the licence in January 2021 and became the second e-money institution licenced in Estonia. IPF Digital AS is one of the largest consumer credit service providers on the Estonian (and the Baltic) market. The Client´s parent company International Personal Finance Plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Maivi’s comprehensive competence has been recognized by independent international publications:
Chambers Global 2023 and Chambers Europe 2023 (Corporate/Commercial, Real Estate, Banking&Finance)
Legal 500 2022 (Hall of Fame in Commercial, Corporate and M&A; Real Estate and Construction)
Legal Experts EMEA
Since 2017, Maivi is a Certified Adviser of Nasdaq Baltic First North
CEE Legal Matters, 2019 Deal of the Year - Estonia
The Legal 500 EMEA Recommended Lawyer 2020
The Legal 500 EMEA Leading Individual 2020
The Legal 500 Hall of Fame
Member of the Board of the Estonian Bar Association
Delegate in the Corporate Law Committee of the Council of the Bars and Law Societies of Europe
Member of the Estonian Lawyers' Association
Member of the International Bar Association
2006 University of Tartu, Faculty of Law, MA
1997 University of Tartu, Faculty of Law, BA (cum laude)