OREANDA-NEWS. November 12, 2014. The annual international law guide IFLR1000 has published its 2015 Financial and Corporate Law Firm Rankings, where both SORAINEN Estonia and SORAINEN Latvia have moved to the top tier. In Belarus the firm continues to be ranked in tier No. 1 for the fourth year while SORAINEN Lithuania confirms its position in the top tier in mergers and acquisitions and in the second tier for its banking and finance practice.

Clients praise SORAINEN’s “excellent service” and “high quality analyses of legal risks as well as suggestions how to manage them” whereas foreign counsel particularly recommend the team for cross-border work: “They have a very good operation and it’s an entrepreneurial culture. They have moved into the right place in the market, being very high-end.”

Reimo Hammerberg, partner and regional head of the SORAINEN Banking & Finance Team, comments: “The top tier ranking for SORAINEN Estonia and Latvia and confirmed high rankings of the firm’s Belarusian and Lithuanian offices are a vote of confidence to us by clients, filling us with a sense of pride in a job well done. Over the years, SORAINEN has picked up several IFLR1000 Baltic awards. This shows we are on the right track, especially considering that consistently with our newly launched sector group approach the IFLR1000 now recommends leading lawyers also by industry sector.”

The directory recommends law firms on the basis of face-to-face and telephone interviews with leading in-house counsel and private-practice lawyers. The highest-ranked law firms are those perceived by clients and competitors to be strongest in terms of their capacity for innovation, their ability to advise on complex cross-border deals and the quality of their client service – not simply those with the most or the biggest deals. The guide ranks only corporate and financial law firms at the top of their profession in over 120 jurisdictions. In addition, it identifies individual lawyers with the best track records for advising in each practice area, naming 12 SORAINEN lawyers as leading lawyers regionally.