About
Martin Simovart is a Partner, the Head of Global Relations, Co-Head of the Mergers and Acquisitions team, as well as Co-Lead of the Private Equity industry at COBALT. Martin has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of mergers, acquisitions and private equity transactions, ranging from large-scale privatisation transactions to complex private equity transactions that encompass leveraged financing and cross-border regulatory issues, as well as acting on behalf of institutional investors. Being an internationally recognised adviser, he has participated in most of the major M&A transactions in Estonia and the Baltics.
Martin is the Head of the Pan-Baltic COBALT M&A practice group.
Sample overview of projects: RSA-PZU, Naspers-Eesti Meedia, Premia-Food Union, Circle K-Premium 7 and TMB-Betonimestarit.
Martin is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA). Martin has been a member of the Estonian Bar Association since 1999.
- Corporate/Commercial – Band 1, Chambers Global and Europe 2025
- Commercial, Corporate, and M&A – Hall of Fame, The Legal 500 2025
- Private Equity, M&A – Expert Consultant, IFLR1000 2024
- Corporate/Commercial – Eminent Practitioner, Chambers & Partners 2022
- Commercial, Corporate, and M&A – Leading Individual, The Legal 500 2019
Languages
- Estonian, English, Russian
Membership & education
- European Regional Council, World Services Group (2011)
- International Bar Association (IBA)
- Estonian Bar Association (1999)
- Queen Mary & Westfield College, London University, Diploma in International Arbitration and Project Finance (1994)
- Master of Arts in Law (M.A.), University of Tartu, Faculty of Law, Estonia (1994)
