11:00 AM
What to bear in mind when fundraising and negotiating transaction documents – practical view from founders and lawyers. The seminar will cover practical aspects what founders should pay attention when negotiating fundraising documents. Insights will be provided by both lawyers and founders experienced with the negotiation process to provide practical insights and tips. The seminar will focus on key matters for both founders and investors, and how to navigate between expectations of the investors and interests of the founders.
Managing Partner and co-head of the M&A practice group, is involved in most of the firm’s transactional work and his experience includes in addition to traditional M&A also VC investments and fundraising.
Mirko Kikkamägi specialises in start-ups and venture capital and is experienced in advising both founders and investors on transactional aspects such as capital raisings as well as on daily issues keeping founders up at night. Mirko also has extensive international experience which can be extra useful for start-ups engaged in cross-border business.
Marek Pärtel has been entrepreneur all his life. Just after graduating high school he sold his old car to go to Florida to import Nike and Tommy Hilfiger for Estonian sports stores as the official distribution channels were missing back in 90-s in Estonia.
During the last 17 years he has understood what gets his pulse racing – property . During these years, the property market has certainly delivered on interest, challenge, and adrenaline. Living and thriving through different economic cycles has taught him a lot about taking and managing risks in property investments – both in Estonia and abroad. As a developer and investor, he knows there are situations when banks are not willing to lend money or are very slow – even though the business plan is solid, and the security is strong.
Marek Pärtel co-founded EstateGuru – an online marketplace for secured property loans and investments.
Kaspar Korjus is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Pactum AI – a tech startup that is revolutionizing the world of business negotiations with chat and AI.
Walmart, Maersk and other Fortune 500 companies use Pactum’s autonomous negotiation to automate their supply chain and logistics operations while realizing millions of dollars in savings.
As a co-founder of Pactum, Kaspar has been involved in many aspects of building the company – from leading business discussions with clients, pitching to investors, building the brand, to developing the company strategy, and leading product development.
1:00 PM
• Choosing the optimal platform for your successful startup business. How to select it and what to keep in mind.
• How to pick out the right legal form for your startup business.
• Protection of you Intellectual Property and other intangible assets.
• Privacy and the concept of data protection.
• How to create successful and efficient interoperability with other relevant platforms.
• How to create effective bridges with the other traditional financial and legal systems.
Mindaugas Civilka is a Partner and Advocate at TGS Baltic with more than 20 years of experience.
He advises clients on a wide range of the most difficult consumer, personal data, cybersecurity, intellectual property, commercial and contractual issues. Mindaugas advises clients on commercial matters and leads important projects including large scale commercial contracts, business restructurings, GDPR compliance.
In addition to legal practice, Mindaugas actively develops scientific activity in the field of IT, data and consumer law, he delivers lectures / trainings on the topics of GDPR, DPO activities, LIAs, PIAs to Lithuanians Bar members, DPOs, legal and tech community.
Mindaugas Civilka heads the Technology Industry Group of the firm, he also chairs the data protection specialisation group.
4 PM
Building a startup can often come with significant challenges and indeed many of those situations can be mitigated in-house without the actual need for external partners. So, when is the optimal time to join forces with an external expert to speed things up? And is it possible to do that with limited resources?
Good partners can increase your workflow efficiency and boost your startup, but at the same time onboarding the right partners at the right time is the golden key.
On 15th of March at 4PM technical and legal knowledge meets well-established startup founders to discuss how things could and should be done along with how they are actually mitigated in the realistic everyday startup life. Featuring networking and good snacks and drinks, of course!
The cloud specialists from Mooncascade will take a sneak peek into when and how to secure your cloud setups. What might be the signs that you should start looking for a professional certified partner? And what are the signs, that you are well off managing the subject in-house?
Lawyers from TGS Baltic will share their experience about startups partnering up with law firms. Is there such a thing as “the right time” and “the right way” to engage a legal partner? And would a lawyer actually say that some startups engage legal help too … early?
The event will end with an engaging panel discussion between experienced and well-known startup founders, who will open up on the daily challenges of building a startup and how things are actually done when stakes are high and resources are scarce. The panel discussion will be moderated by Priit Salumaa, CEO and co-founder of Better Medicine. Other panelists will be revealed soon!
The event is free of charge, but for a limited number of people, so make sure to register and reserve your spot!
To register please fill in the form here
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Mooncascade is a leading advisory, design, and software development company with a global reach. As an official Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services partner we help you set up a well-built cloud environment, that is crucial for enabling security, increasing financial visibility and efficiency as well as planning for scalability. Proper security configurations and processes will ensure that your data and services are safe, all while keeping teams agile in terms of how they respond to new business needs.
TGS Baltic is a top-tier commercial law firm with offices in all the Baltic countries. We believe lawyers should be more than just experts in the law: the real added value for our clients comes from our ability to understand their businesses and help them succeed in their objectives. Our lawyers have extensive experience in advising clients from various sectors (including HealthTech, FinTech, CyberTech, e-commerce, crowdfunding, etc.) on legal matters about personal data protection and privacy, with comprehensive know-how in effectively addressing, documenting, and managing the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), e-privacy, and national data protection frameworks.
Hedi Mardisoo is the co-founder and CEO of Cachet, a financial services ecosystem on a mission to create a better platform economy.
She is passionate about person-centric and decentralised design where people benefit more from their data. In 2020, Sifted listed her among Europe’s “Women to Watch in Fintech”. Cachet has been listed two years in a row among the top 100 Insurtech in the world.
Kaspar Korjus is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Pactum AI – a tech startup that is revolutionizing the world of business negotiations with chat and AI.
Walmart, Maersk and other Fortune 500 companies use Pactum’s autonomous negotiation to automate their supply chain and logistics operations while realizing millions of dollars in savings.
As a co-founder of Pactum, Kaspar has been involved in many aspects of building the company – from leading business discussions with clients, pitching to investors, building the brand, to developing the company strategy, and leading product development.
University of Tartu Sports Hall
Register: marketing@tgsbaltic.com
Free legal advisory hosted by TGS Baltic is a great opportunity to discuss important issues, and also exchange ideas. TGS Baltic free legal advisory works on the spot in the demo area of TGS Baltic.
TGS Baltic free legal advisory is hosted by Managing Partner Sander Kärson, Partner Kirsti Pent, Senior Associates Mirko Kikkamägi, Mari-Liis Orav and Silvia Urgas, also Ingeri Luik-Tamme and Eva Arumets.
Each start-up can book a 30-minute slot for personalised advice from our experts. Please book your desired time slot in advance – bookings are available from 1 March. Please also mark a topic that interests you so that we can provide the most suitable person for your advice.
Managing Partner and co-head of the M&A practice group.
Sander is involved in most of the firm’s transactional work and his experience includes in addition to traditional M&A also VC investments and fundraising.
Mari-Liis knows the data protection inside out.
Mari-Liis focuses on personal data protection, intellectual property, IT law and everything around GDPR.
Mirko Kikkamägi specialises in start-ups and venture capital.
Mirko is experienced in advising both founders and investors on transactional aspects such as capital raisings as well as on daily issues keeping founders up at night. Mirko also has extensive international experience which can be extra useful for start-ups engaged in cross-border business.
Partner Kirsti Pent heads the banking & finance practice group.
Kirsti is considered one of Estonia’s top fintech experts. She advises clients in regulatory matters (incl. licensing requirements) as well as financing transactions (incl. loans, convertible bonds and other security issues).
Silvia Urgas is an expert in intellectual property, including copyright and trademarks.
She also has practical experience in dispute resolution, as well as preventing and solving any disputes, such as between the founders or with business partners.
Ingeri Luik-Tamme is one of the few Estonian lawyers specialising in healthcare and pharmaceuticals.
As the healthcare sector encounters extensive processing of sensitive personal data, data protection is one of the other areas that Ingeri focuses on daily.
Eva Arumets mainly focuses on M&A, corporate and real estate matters.
