Merlin Liis-Toomela is a counsel who specialises in data protection and intellectual property rights law. She is an internationally recognised expert in the field of data protection and holds the European Data Protection Professional Certificate CIPP/E issued by the Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).
Merlin is also a member of the Intellectual Property and IT Law Committee of the Estonian Bar Association, thereby actively contributing to issues related to IT legislation and practice, i.e. analysing existing legislation and practice as well as drafting and advising on proposed amendments.
Having worked in an international law firm before joining Ellex, he has a combined 10 years of experience advising clients in data protection law, IP & ICT and civil litigation.
Merlin Liis-Toomela helps us to analyse the AI Act, GDPR and local laws. It is fascinating to see how she knows all the details and can guide us to make the right decision in the long term. Very open-minded and quick with her responses.’
BCS Itera AS sells its business to Digmatix
SmartCap co-leads €11M investment to Stargate Hydrogen
Balderton led €3.5M funding round for Cino
Advising the privatisation of Operail’s business
Initial public offering of the shares of AS Infortar
Skeleton Technologies closed a €108M funding round
Molten Ventures led a $19M funding round to Binalyze
Specialist VC led the €1.7 million seed round to VOOL
Eneco and PKO VC invest in green tech company Fusebox
German based Toi Toi & Dixi to acquire Kemmerling OÜ
LHV Group set to acquire Estonian paytech EveryPay
Initial public offering of Enefit Green shares
Graanul Invest to be acquired by Apollo Funds
Kindred acquires Relax Gaming
Tera Ventures led the investment round to 10Lines
Superangel led close to €1M funding round to ParcelSea
BaltCap exits Qvalitas and Unimed
Institutional infrastructure investors to acquire Adven
2016
University of Tartu, Estonia
2014
University of Tartu, Estonia
2022
Estonian Bar Association
2017
