Jesse Kivisaari is a Managing Associate of COBALT Estonia and the head of the Finnish Desk of the law firm. Jesse is experienced in M&A and private equity transactions and also advises companies in corporate law matters. He is focused on cross-border business activities, especially on projects related to Finland as his native language is Finnish. Jesse’s knowledge of cross-border legal aspects and multiple cultures enable him to provide services for Finnish companies with respect to the Baltics and vice versa. 
For example, Jesse advised AS TMB, one of the biggest manufacturers of reinforced concrete elements in the Baltics, upon the acquisition of Betonimestarit Group in Finland and the subsequent sale of AS TMB’s Finnish and Latvian business to Consolis.

Jesse has been a member of the Estonian Bar Association since 2015 and a member of the Finnish-Estonian Chamber of Commerce since 2011.

• Corporate Governance
• Private M&A
• Private Equity
• Corporate Restructuring
• Joint Ventures & Commercial Cooperation
• Private Wealth
• Public M&A

• Estonian, Finnish, English

• Member of the Finnish-Estonian Trade Association (since 2017)
• Member of the Estonian Bar Association (since 2015)
• Member of the Finnish-Estonian Chamber of Commerce (since 2011)
• 2018 EEA exams (equal to Bachelor of Laws degree), University of Helsinki and Turku, Faculty of Law, Finland
• 2015 Master of Arts in Law (MA), University of Tartu, Faculty of Law, Estonia
• 2013 Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences (BA), law, University of Tartu, Faculty of Law, Estonia

• Brief Guide to Private Placement of Funds
• Brief Guide on Conditions to Passporting Alternative Investment Funds within the EEA
• Shortly about prohibition on business – when will it be applied?
• Amendments to the Investment Funds Act
• Shell Companies in Today's Business Environment

• 2023 — 06 — 27
  COBALT advises the majority shareholder of AS TOODE, Amber Trust II S.C.A. in the sale of its shares to Kingspan Group
• 2023 — 06 — 14
  COBALT advised international business group Indutrade on the acquisition of Labema Oy
• 2023 — 05 — 12
  COBALT advised the division of KMG OÜ
• 2023 — 05 — 11
  COBALT advises majority shareholder of Hansab on selling its majority stake to BaltCap
• 2023 — 04 — 14
  COBALT advised HellermannTyton on the acquisition of Höhle
• 2022 — 12 — 15
  COBALT advises on the sale of HKScan’s Baltic business to AS Maag Grupp
• 2022 — 12 — 14
  COBALT advised Mirova Energy Transition 5 S.L.P on signing a contract with renewable energy developer Evecon OÜ
• 2022 — 12 — 01
  COBALT advised the sale of district heating network company VKG Soojus to Gren
• 2022 — 09 — 07
  COBALT advises AS PRFoods in selling its Swedish business
• 2022 — 07 — 06
  COBALT advised Asuntosalkku Oyj in the listing to the Nasdaq First North Growth Market Finland