Rene Frolov joins the partnership of FORT Law Offices as Head of Competition in Estonia

Rene is a leading expert of Estonian competition law with more than 10 years of experience in the field. His specialism is in antitrust (cartel and dominance) investigations before the Estonian Competition Authority, competition compliance in both regulated or non-regulated industries and complex merger work. Over the years, Rene has been involved in a number of landmark cases, such as the ‘milk-cartel’ and ‘vodka-cartel’ cases that ended successfully for his clients. Recently Rene helped Eesti Post to secure a positive court ruling in a rare civil suit against allegations of abuse of dominance. Rene has also advised both private and public sector clients on application of EU State aid rules, e.g. represented them before the European Commission.

The Supreme Court of Lithuania has accepted the cassation appeal prepared by FORT Vilnius regarding legal questions whether arbitration process could be considered as due process, where the founders and management of the arbitration institution represent one of the parties to the arbitration case. According to the cassator, any external objective observer would reasonably have apprehensions with respect to the due process, which is organised by one of the parties to a dispute or their legal advisors.