Ants Karu

Meet Ants, an attorney with over 28 years of experience advising clients in complex corporate, M&A and tax matters. Ants is here to assist you with selling or purchasing businesses, merging or dividing companies, regulating shareholder’s relations, and financing your business with equity or loan capital. These transactions require understanding your business and must be thought through from a tax perspective and implemented tax-optimally.

Ants enjoys complex projects and works towards getting them done in a simple and rational way. Transactions often have cross-border elements, and in cooperation with experts across the globe, Ants will handle them as your single point of contact.

- Corporate and M&A

- Banking, Finance and Capital Markets

- Private Equity and Venture Capital

2003 WIDEN, Partner

2010 Honorary Legal Adviser of the British Ambassador to Estonia

1996 - 2003 Law Office HETA, Lawyer, Assistant Associate, Senior Assistant Associate, Senior Associate

1994 - 1996 Virumaa Commercial Bank, Head of legal department

1993 - 1994 Virumaa Commercial Bank Tallinn branch, lawyer

Estonian Bar Association

Estonian Bar Association's Tax Law Committee

University of Tartu

BA, with MA Level Equivalence in Law