Peeter P. Mõtsküla

Peeter’s clients appreciate his practical and down-to-earth approach to counselling. His knowledge of IT industry standards and practices has often allowed him to help the clients improve their business processes; as an active reserve officer and Estonian Defence League member, he is able to “speak the language” of the clients in the defence industry.

Recent highlights of his work include:

• advising UP Catalyst in raising more than 6 million euros in two-stage seed round led by Extantia and supported by SmartCap and Warsaw Equity Group
• advising Krakul Holding in the acquisition of their fully owned subsidiary by Bercman Technologies in a share swap valued at above 1.5 million euro
• advising (in cooperation with Norton Rose Fulbright) BayWa r.e in leading a 6,4 million euro Series A investment round into Roofit.solar
• advising the founders of Binalyze, Defensphere, FuseBox and Sensus Septima in raising a total of more than 4 million euro in funding
• successfully representing KODAstay OÜ in a trademark dispute

Prior to joining TRINITI in 2017, Peeter had gained almost a quarter century’s worth of hands-on IT experience, having held technical and administrative positions in various IT companies including Proact, Skype, MicroLink and Cybernetica. Peeter has a Diploma in Engineering from Tallinn Technical University and MA in Law from the University of Tartu. He’s probably the only attorney in Estonia who holds an ITIL Practitioner certificate and one of the leading experts on the practices of open-source licensing.

Peeter has contributed to the drafting of the second and third editions of Startup Estonia / EstVCA model documents and teaches intellectual property law in the IT Law programme at the University of Tartu. Peeter is a member of the Estonian Business Angels Network, Estonian Reserve Officers’ Association, Estonian Defence League, and one of the founders of Skydive Estonia.