Ellex Raidla represented Mr Andrus Kluge, chairman of the Supervisory Board of Krediidipank, in a dispute with the Bank of Moscow. For our client the decision of the Supreme Court was positive. The head of Ellex Raidla team was partner Ants Nõmper in co-operation with senior associate Martin Mäesalu and associate Maret Kruus.

The dispute started when the Bank of Moscow did not agree with the truthful allegations of Mr Kluge stating that the Bank of Moscow tried several times to gain access to clients’ information subject to bank secrecy due to what the Bank of Moscow demanded to refute the allegation. The County Court and Circuit Court both agreed on the fact that the Bank of Moscow has tried to gain the access to clients’ information subject to bank secrecy. Also, the Supreme Court agreed with the decisions and the appeal in cassation of the Bank of Moscow was not proceeded.

Eesti Krediipank that was founded in 1992 and offers banking services to both private individuals and companies has offices and service locations all over Estonia and in Riga, Latvia.
 

Additional information (in Estonian) is available here.

Ellex Raidla partner Ants Nõmper represented Äripäev, the leading Estonian daily business newspaper, in a dispute against Ivar Richard Skandeberg.

The dispute started on 27 September 2012 as a result of an article “TOP15 wealthiest women: money is in mens’ hands” published by Äripäev. Ivar Richard Skandeberg addressed to the Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate claiming that Äripäev has processed his personal data illegally. Skandeberg applied to stop processing personal data and asked to eliminate magazine TOP 500 wealthiest from the sale. Neither Tallinn administrative court nor Tallinn district court satisfied his appeal.

Skandeberg was not satisfied with his loss in appellation court and made an appeal in cassation to the Supreme Court. On December 18, 2014 the Supreme Court decided not to accept his appeal.

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Ellex Raidla partner Ants Nõmper advised Medicine Estonia Cluster regarding the preparation of standard contracts for provision of health care services, including contracts regarding the patients’ approval and the preparation of anaesthesia leaflets in Estonian, Russian, English and Finnish.

Medicine Estonia is a project of Service Industry Association supporting its members in increasing their export of medical services. One of the main roles of the cluster is to market the services of its members in target markets and to create an attractive image for the Estonian service providers.

Additonal information: www.medicineestonia.eu

Ellex Raidla partner Ants Nõmper advised Cellin Technologies OÜ in preparation of the documents regarding the unique cell medicine project. Cellin Technologies OÜ is the first company that started producing  personalized cancer medicine called MelCancerVac.

The personal cell medicine that is in the final phase of test point, is based on amplifying patient's body defensive reaction, using the patient's blood-derived dendritic cells and the melanoma cell lysate. If the trials are successful, MelCancerVac may become the world’s first vaccine against colorectal cancer.

Cellin Technologies OÜ is a cell therapy products contract manufacturing company founded in 2008 that is using modern cleanroom facility for the production of cell therapy medicinal products of the highest quality. The company is participating in the EU- funded Research and Development project, which studies how to the use of regenerative cells from human fat in the creation of new blood vessels.

Additional information: www.cellintechnologies.com

Estonian Health Insurance Fund, organization handling mandatory health insurance, was a respondent in cases doubting the transparent selection process of contracting partners. We represented the organization in 11 disputes.