Obligation and Labour law

ALTERNA counsels its clients in the matters of law of obligations and all areas of labour law.

The law of obligations regulates different contractual and non-contractual relations. We compile and negotiate inter alia sales contracts, lease contracts, contracts for services and loan and credit agreements. We also have significant experience related to less common contracts, such as factoring contracts, gratuitious contracts, leasing contracts, licence agreements, franchise contracts, insurance contracts, contracts of partnership, brokerage/agency/commission contracts, contracts of carriage and deposit contracts.

We compile claims, applications and pretensions that are necessary for our client, for example the declaration of withdrawal or declaration of cancellation of a contract, declaration of set-off, declaration to reduce a price, or a claim for compensating damages. Timely submitted claims often ensure the success of a later dispute. Thereby we know that it is highly important to previously examine the documentation and assess the clients’ position, so that our client is able to make an informed decision about which claims and applications are useful and financially beneficial or about considering compromise negotiations. We compile all the necessary documentation and represent our clients in negotiation proceedings.

Moreover, our attorneys have many years of experience in counselling in labour law. The lead of this field is partner Ms Annika Vait, who has been a lecturer for many years and has been writing monthly news updates to Addenda’s labour law blog. In cooperation with Äripäev, our law firm is issuing Employment Relations e-handbook. Our attorney-at-law Ms Epp Lumiste is the chief editor of this handbook.

ALTERNA represents and counsels both the employers and employees about compiling and concluding employment contracts, terminating employment relations, filing claims and also in disputes – both in court and labour dispute committee, and before having recourse to dispute bodies. Labour law is part of our everyday work, as we are everyday legal counsellors of many companies.

• Counselling and representing a client in a project worth over 90,000,000 euros, by negotiating and concluding contracts for purchasing services;
• Developing building contracts packets for several construction companies – general and subcontracts of construction services, building design contracts, contracts for supplying materials, minutes of the meetings, projects for claims, intermediate and final acts, etc.;
• Developing contract packets for IT-companies of contracts of providing services, purchasing services and licence agreements, while taking into consideration the specifics of each clients’ activities and cooperation characteristics;
• Counselling an international chain of restaurants and cafeterias in the matters of franchise contract and negotiations with another contracting party;

• Representing and counselling a real estate company in compiling a compromise agreement regarding the bankruptcy proceedings of OÜ Total Inkasso;
• Counselling and representing one of the biggest employers of Estonia in the matters of labour law and complicated labour disputes;
• Counselling an international catering chain in daily labour law matters and providing necessary documentation regarding labour law;
• Counselling one of the biggest wholesale distributors and vehicle repair shops holders in Estonia in the matters of labour law, including developing a new basis of employment contract.