OREANDA-NEWS. February 02, 2009. Sorainen received the Baltic Law Firm of the Year award in the international PLC Which lawyer? Law Firm Awards 2009. Although these awards have been presented since 2005, this is the first time that a selection has been made for an award of the best law firm in the Baltic countries, reported the press-centre of Sorainen.

The annual PLC Which lawyer? Law Firm Awards aim to recognise the best law firms across the world with awards in regional, national, and international categories.

Award winners are selected by online voting, open to over 5,500 in-house counsel from international companies across the globe. Voters are free to pick their own winners or choose from nominees suggested by PLC Which lawyer? researchers.

Aku Sorainen, the firm’s managing partner, comments: “Winning this award is a great international recognition of our efforts to service clients the best we can. Sorainen continuously advises many international corporations and this award is pleasing evidence of recognition from our clients.”

Research organizers explain that Sorainen’s success was assured on the basis of “good people in all three countries” and for being “well-organised, timely and reasonable”.

This is Sorainen’s second recent international award: in December 2008 The Financial Times and Mergermarket noted Sorainen as Baltic Legal Advisor of the Year 2008.PLC Which lawyer? is a major international directory of lawyers and law firms worldwide with a searchable database of lawyers and law firms practising in core areas of commercial law in over 100 jurisdictions around the world that are considered leaders in their field, based on independent research. PLC Which lawyer? belongs to Practical Law Company (PLC), which, with offices in London and New York, is the leading provider of legal know-how, transactional analysis, and market intelligence for lawyers.

Sorainen is an integrated regional business law firm providing high-quality legal services to foreign investors and local businesses in the Baltics and Belarus. The firm currently employs over 100 lawyers in its offices in Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, and Minsk. Sorainen is the first and the only law firm in the Baltics and Belarus to implement a quality management system certified under ISO 9001:2000 standards. Sorainen has advised on the most major transactions in the region, totalling EUR 3 billion in 2007-2008 alone.