Marina Kotkas
Apie
Marina Kotkas is a Partner and Co-Chair of the Banking & Finance practice group at COBALT Estonia, she also co-leads the Banks and Financial Institutions industries. Marina has extensive experience in advising Estonian and cross-border financing and capital market transactions, including project, real estate and acquisition financing, refinancing, public offerings and private placements of capital securities and debt instruments and admitting thereof for trading on regulated markets, public M&A and tender offers.
Marina is the regular adviser to the largest local and international credit and financial institutions. In addition to financing and capital markets transactions, her expertise also covers assisting with mergers, sale of loan portfolios and all regulatory aspects of the activities of banks and financial institutions. Marina’s clientele also includes listed companies, local and international private equity houses and industrial investors whom she advises on capital raising and public M&A transactions and the variety of regulatory issues. Marina has also unparallel experience in advising renewable energy financing projects.
Her work has earned her strong recognition from prominent international and local clients, as well as other international law firms. In June 2026, Marina was recognised as Lawyer of the Year: Baltics at the IFLR Europe Awards.
Marina is also a member of the Financial Law Committee of the Estonian Bar Association, FinanceEstonia’s Capital Markets Committee and the International Bar Association’s Securities and Capital Markets Committee.
Marina has been a member of the Estonian Bar Association since 2003.
Praktikos sritys
- ES teisė
- ESG
- Finansinių paslaugų teisinis reglamentavimas
- Finansinės technologijos
- Fondai
- Privataus sektoriaus įmonių susijungimų ir įsigijimų sandoriai
- Privatus kapitalas
- Turto įsigijimo ir projektų finansavimas
- Tvarus finansavimas
- Vertybinių popierių rinkos
- Viešojo sektoriaus įmonių susijungimų ir įsigijimų sandoriai
- Įmonių valdymo klausimai
- Banking and Finance – Band 1, Chambers Europe 2026
- Banking, Finance, and Capital Markets – Leading Partner, The Legal 500 2026
- Banking, Capital Markets – Market Leader, IFLR 1000 2025
- Banking, Capital Markets – Women Leaders, IFLR 1000 2025
- Banking and Finance – Ranked Lawyer, Band 1, Chambers Europe 2024
- Banking, Finance, and Capital Markets – Leading Individual, The Legal 500 2024
Kalbos
- Estonian, Russian, English
Narystė organizacijose ir išsilavinimas
- Securities and Capital Markets Committee, International Bar Association (2025)
- Capital Markets Practice Group, FinanceEstonia (2015)
- Bank Finance and Regulation Practice Group, Lex Mundi (2011)
- Young Professionals Committee, American Chamber of Commerce in Estonia (2003)
- Estonian Bar Association (since 2003)
- Cross-Border Transactions Program, Lex Mundi Institute, Monterey, USA (2011)
- Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree, University of Tartu, Faculty of Law, Estonia (2001)
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