Europe
Practice Areas
Reduction of business losses
Capital Markets
Insurance Transactions
Banking & Financial Services
Competition and State Aid
Professional Memberships
2019 Tallink Grupp, Member of the Supervisory Board
2016 Inbank AS, Member of the Supervisory Board
2011 FinanceEstonia, Board Member
2012-2014 Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance
1996 Arbitration Court Tallinn Stock Exchange, Chairman of the Council
1996 Estonian Bar Association
Experience
Raino Paron is a partner and one of the most widely recognised banking, finance and capital markets lawyers in Estonia. He has profound international experience having worked for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington D.C. He has also been active since 1996 in legislative drafting in Estonia and has participated in the drafting of the Financial Supervision Authority Act, Credit Institutions Act, Investment Funds Act, Securities Markets Act, Central Registry of Securities Act, Commercial Code, Bankruptcy Act, the Rules of the Tallinn Stock Exchange and many others. He has been the Chairman of the Arbitration Court of the Tallinn Stock Exchange since the establishment of the Exchange in 1996.
He is the long-term head of the Banking and Finance practice group and has over the years participated in a number of large M&A transactions, financing and capital market transactions as well as field-related disputes.
Education
Georgetown University, USA
Master of Laws (LL.M.), with distinction
1993
University of Tartu, Estonia
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), officially equivalent to MA, cum laude
1990