James Oates

James Oates runs Cicero Capital, a specialist investment company based in Tallinn.

Tallinn Town Hall Square, still beautiful but far from bustling. Photo by Genet Schneider on Unsplash.

James Oates: What is to be done with Tallinn’s Old Town?

By James Oates / April 28, 2026 / 6 minutes of reading

Tallinn’s Old Town should be the city’s jewel; instead, too much of it feels hollowed out: overpriced, underused and increasingly outshone by Vilnius. Spring – […]

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James Oates: The Estonian state of mind

By James Oates / March 3, 2014 / 6 minutes of reading

James Oates, a Tallinn-based British businessman and the Chairman of the British Estonian Chamber of Commerce, says that even as Russia seeks to destabilise Ukraine’s new

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