Our team

Our lawyers ensure the professional protection of clients' interests

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Sadekov Law Office

Our mission

We provide high-quality legal services. We ensure a personal approach to each client and work to deadlines.

Our staff is expert in legislation in force and case law, and our clients trust us because of our dedication to responsibility and professionalism.

Introducing our team

Our team successfully handles commercial, criminal, civil and administrative proceedings.

  • Vladimir Sadekov
    Vladimir Sadekov

    attorney-at-law, managing partner

  • Aleksei Vassiljev
    Aleksei Vassiljev

    attorney-at-law

  • Maria Abramenkova
    Maria Abramenkova

    attorney

  • Marina Smirnova
    Marina Smirnova

    lawyer

  • Evelin Orav
    Evelin Orav

    assistant

  • Aleksandra Lilu
    Aleksandra Lilu

    accountant, tax consultant

Vladimir Sadekov
Vladimir Sadekov

attorney-at-law, managing partner

Vladimir Sadekov is the founder and managing partner of Sadekov Law Office. He started his legal career in 1998 as an attorney. Mr Sadekov became well-known in 2000 when he participated in the resonance process with Simon Levin and Andres Gorkin as the defence attorney of Giovanni Sposato.

Working in large multinational companies and in various offices, he gained invaluable experience of participating in the settlement of business disputes. Since 2005, he has focused his work mainly on criminal law and proceedings and on comprehensive customer service. He became more widely known in connection with the successful defence of the so-called bronze process. Vladimir Sadekov has participated in the defence of clients in Estonia, Germany, France and Finland.

2005 — Faculty of Law of the University of Audentes, Master’s Degree

2001 — Faculty of Law of Concordia International University, Bachelor’s Degree

since 2010 — Managing Partner and Attorney-at-Law, Vladimir Sadekov Law Office

2009 — Attorney-at-Law, Law Firm Leonid Olovjanisnikov

2006-2009 — Senior Assistante of the Attorney-at-Law, Law Firm Leonid Olovjanisnikov

2004-2005 — lawyer, VS Attorneys-at-Law

2003-2004 — attorney, Concordia Attorneys at Law

2001-2003 — lawyer, AS VIM AGENCY

1999-2001 — lawyer, AS BI-Info

Member of the Estonian Bar Association since 2006

Russian, Estonian, English

  • Criminal law and proceedings
  • Law of obligations
  • Family law
Aleksei Vassiljev
Aleksei Vassiljev

attorney-at-law

He has worked at Sadekov Law Office since March 2015. Prior to that, he was a lawyer at the Tax and Customs Board and dealt with collection of tax arrears. In 2009, he was awarded the State Prize as the best collector of the year.

He resolves issues related to enforcement and bankruptcy proceedings, tax and administrative law, tax, judicial and administrative proceedings, commercial, civil, including matters of property law, law of obligations, labour and family law. The procedural documents of Alexey Vassiljev were repeatedly examined in the Supreme Court. On the basis of these, judgments of fundamental importance for the development of law were issued, which have become a precedent with regards to lower-ranking courts.

In 2007, Alexei Vassiljev defended his Master’s thesis on “Liability of a Member of the Company’s Management Body Towards the Company’s Creditors”. At this stage of his career, he gives priority to the field of business law and issues concerning the liability of the company’s management body towards creditors, in which event the special case is the liability of a member of the management board towards the state in the form of the Tax and Customs Board.

2005-2007 — Master of Laws, Akadeemia Nord, Tallinn, Estonia

1996-1998 — Bachelor of Laws, Baltic-Russian Institute, Tallinn, Estonia

1993-1996 — St. Petersburg Institute of International Economic Relations, Economics and Law, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

from 2020 — Vladimir Sadekov Law Office OÜ, attorney-at-law

2015-2020 — Vladimir Sadekov Law Office OÜ, attorney

2015 — Vladimir Sadekov Law Office OÜ, lawyer

2008-2015 – Tax and Customs Board, lawyer

2002-2008 – Law Office KPP Capital OÜ, lawyer

2001-2002, BI-Info AS, lawye

Member of the Estonian Bar Association since 2015

Russian, Estonian

  • Civil law (including property law, law of obligations, labour law and family law)
  • Enforcement proceedings
  • Bankruptcy proceedings
  • Tax law and proceedings
  • Judicial and administrative proceedings
  • Commercial law
Maria Abramenkova
Maria Abramenkova

attorney

2016 — Faculty of Law, Tallinn University of Technology, Master’s Degree

2013 — Faculty of Law, Tallinn University of Technology, Bachelor’s Degree

from March 2017 — attorney, Vladimir Sadekov Law Office

2016-2017 — Lawyer, Katrin Vellet’s Bailiff Office

2013-2016 — Lawyer, Vladimir Sadekov Law Office

2012-2013 — Assistant, Estonian Human Rights Centre

2012 — Assistant, Tallinn City Government

Member of the Estonian Bar Association since 2017

Russian, Estonian, English

Marina Smirnova
Marina Smirnova

lawyer

2008 EBS (Estonian Business School), bachelor’s degree in economics and business administration

2020 University of Tartu, Estonia (BA in Law)

2021 University of Tartu, Estonia (MA in Law) to be obtained 2023

2008 accountant certificate (Kardis OÜ)

2001 сustoms broker certificate (issued by Estonian Tax and Customs Board)

2000 – 2006 Scantrans AS, declarant / customs broker

2006 – 2007 Admiral Markets AS, customer support specialist

2007 – 2014 Kühne+Nagel AS, forwarder

2011 – 2022 Valverone OÜ, member of the Board

2019 - lawyer, Vladmir Sadekov law office

Russian, Estonian, English

Evelin Orav
Evelin Orav

assistant

2018-2020 — Tallinn School of Economics

2021 – University of Tartu, Estonia (BA in Law, to be obtained)

from September 2021 — assistant, Vladimir Sadekov Law Office

2020-2021 – Clerk in Harju County Court

Estonian, Russian, English

Aleksandra Lilu
Aleksandra Lilu

accountant, tax consultant

2011 — Tallinn School of Economics, Accounting

Russian, Estonian