OREANDA-NEWS. November 16, 2009. A meeting of partners in the law firm Sorainen appointed the founding partner and current managing partner, Mr Aku Sorainen, to the position of senior partner. In his new role, he will focus more on strategic management of Sorainen and its business development across the region. From January 2010 the current office managing partner of Sorainen Latvia, Mr Pekka Puolakka, will be promoted to the position of managing partner, reported the press-centre of Sorainen.

These changes in management result from the firm’s continuing growth. “Over the last eight years, Sorainen has grown organically more than four times by building strong integrated offices in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Belarus.

To ensure that balanced development as a leading regional law firm continues in the future, we have decided to allocate more resources to group management and business development”, commented Aku Sorainen, adding: “Pekka Puolakka, who will take on the responsibility of Sorainen managing partner, joined the firm in 1999 and established our office in Lithuania. Since June 2006, he has acted as office managing partner of Sorainen Latvia. Pekka will now start to focus more on operational management of the firm as a whole.”
 
The new office managing partner of Sorainen Latvia will be Ms Eva Berlaus, who joined Sorainen in 2000 and currently heads the local Mergers & Acquisitions team in Latvia.