Roschier — Finland

Aapo Saarikivi

Partner Aapo Saarikivi heads Roschier's Dispute Resolution practice in Finland. Having represented clients in many of the largest high-stakes cases on the market, Aapo has extensive experience of arbitration, litigation, mediation and dispute board proceedings, as well as other forms of alternative dispute resolution in Finland and internationally. Aapo further provides strategic advice on claims management and the settlement of business disputes in a broad range of contentious settings. He also serves as arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations. Aapo’s arbitration track record includes cases seated in all four Nordic jurisdictions, and major international hubs such as Paris, Geneva and Singapore. Aapo‘s experience spans a variety of sectors, with a special emphasis on energy & industrial projects, telecoms and construction. He also has considerable experience of cartel damages actions on a national, EU and global level. Aapo has further litigated and arbitrated M&A and corporate disputes, contentious finance and insolvency matters, and disputes relating to international trade & transport, agency & distribution, tax & customs and foreign investment. · Litigation

Ami Paanajärvi

Partner Ami Paanajärvi is Head of Roschier’s EU & Competition and Public Procurement practices in Finland. She has extensive experience in antitrust proceedings before the European Commission and the Finnish competition authority, and regularly advises clients in all types of competition law issues, particularly related to behavioral antitrust, merger control and dominance issues. Ami is a core member of Roschier’s crossborder FDI & Protective Security practice area and she also has experience in State Aid procedures before the European Commission. She is recognized as one of the leading experts in her field in Finland. · EU & Competition

Andreas Bussman

Partner Andreas Bussman is a tax specialist with broad experience in high-end tax planning and structuring of complex domestic and cross-border M&A and private equity transactions, including management incentive programs, financing and other reorganizations for both public and private clients. In addition to his expertise in tax law, Andreas also has a broad understanding and practical experience of general corporate law, financing and general M&A. He is also regularly involved in tax litigation, tax audit, advance ruling and pre-discussion proceedings and regularly advises clients on tax aspects related to financial instruments. Andreas joined Roschier in 2014. · Tax

Antti Ihamuotila

Partner Antti Ihamuotila is the Chair of the Board of Roschier. He has more than 20 years’ experience of international capital markets transactions, including in-depth expertise in public M&A, equity and debt capital markets, leveraged finance, and corporate advisory. Antti has advised clients on numerous public and private offerings of equity and high yield and investment grade debt securities and public and private mergers and acquisitions. He has also acted for clients in venture capital investments. · Equity Capital Markets

Antti-Jussi Partanen

Partner Antti-Jussi Partanen is Head of Roschier’s Real Estate practice in Finland. He is specialized in real estate, energy and private M&A matters. Antti-Jussi is regularly involved in complex transactional work, including large-scale real estate transactions as well as infrastructure and energy related acquisitions and divestments. He has also in-depth experience in assignments related to real estate financing as well as company and contract law. · Real Estate

Anu Waaralinna

Partner Anu Waaralinna is Head of Roschier's Employment and Corporate Investigations & Compliance practices. She is a highly recognized expert in employment law. Anu has extensive experience in demanding employment-related assignments, and she regularly advises domestic and international companies and employers on a broad range of employment issues of strategic importance. Her practice covers, in particular, boardroom advice, company restructurings and co-operation procedures as well as service and executive employment contract issues. A significant portion of her work is dedicated to the resolution of employment disputes. · Employment

Arto Linnervuo

Partner Arto Linnervuo is Head of Roschier's Digitalization & TMT and Outsourcing practices. He has extensive experience in advising clients on various technology-related matters in both private and public sectors. Arto has been involved in the most significant projects in the Finnish market in the past few years representing large international corporations in cross-border digital transformation and business process development projects as well as IT outsourcing, business process outsourcing (BPO) and industrial outsourcing arrangements. Arto also provides legal advice on cloud computing, software licensing and audits, data protection & privacy, Internet of Things (IoT), E-Commerce & Internet as well as telecommunications regulation. In addition to non-contentious matters, he frequently handles IT disputes in courts of arbitration and public courts. Arto acts as an advisor to many promising tech start-ups and growth companies. He has a good understanding of their businesses and challenges having been chairman and member of the Board in a number of software and biotechnology companies. · Technology / TMT

Helena Viita

Senior Advisor Helena Viita is specialized in banking & finance and insolvency & restructuring. Helena has extensive experience in a wide variety of finance and debt capital markets work, including real estate and acquisition finance, securitization transactions and financial restructurings. Helena also advises on financial regulatory, netting and derivatives. · Banking & Finance

Jaakko Laitinen

Senior Associate Jaakko Laitinen is a member of Roschier’s Corporate Advisory, Public M&A and Equity Capital Markets practices. He has experience in advising clients in various capital markets transactions, including IPOs, public tender offers and listed company mergers, and also advises on issues related to Finnish corporate and securities law as well as corporate governance matters. In addition, he has experience in advising clients in financial regulatory matters concerning investment services and investment funds. He joined the firm in 2018. · Corporate / M&A

Janne Nurminen

Counsel Janne Nurminen is focused on transactional employment law, reorganization of workforce, as well as collective and individual termination of employment. His previous experience includes training at the bench at the District Court of Tampere. Janne was awarded the Attorney of the Year award by the Helsinki Bar Association in 2012 for his work related to the coordination of a pro bono legal advice service offered by members of the Bar. · Employment

Johanna Flythström

Partner Johanna Flythström, Head of the Helsinki Office, is specialized in both contentious and non-contentious IP and technology work with an emphasis on commercial and transactional IP and technology work as well as IP and technology disputes. She has extensive experience in advising clients on a broad range of strategic and commercial IP and technology issues, such as advisory work on all stages of IP and technology lifecycle including IP and technology acquisition (whether stand-alone, in employee contexts, or in collaborations), IP and technology commercialization, and enforcement. Her broad experience includes, among others, advising in complex licensing, development, and collaboration arrangements, as well as IP and technology transfers. In addition to IP and technology advisory work, Johanna also regularly advises IP and technology driven businesses in various contractual, regulatory, and marketing law matters in particular in the fields of life sciences, TMT, ClimateTech, and digitalization. Johanna has also considerable experience from acting as a counsel in IP and technology disputes, including in multi-jurisdictional IP litigations, in various fields of industry such as telecommunications, life sciences, process technology and chemistry, paper&pulp, engineering, and various high technologies. · Intellectual Property

Johanna Lilja

Partner Johanna Lilja is Head of Roschier's Data Protection practice. She regularly advises clients on all aspects of data protection and privacy from operational matters to implementation of EU General Data Protection Compliance programs. Johanna is also specialized in intellectual property with a particular focus on patent litigation. Johanna has first and second chair trial experience of IP litigation before the Market Court, Helsinki District Court, Helsinki Court of Appeals and the Finnish Supreme Court. The matters have involved questions on infringement through equivalence, burden of proof, infringing acts, availability of preliminary injunctions and calculation of damages and reasonable compensation for use. She also has extensive experience of acting in anti-counterfeiting enforcement cases. Johanna also regularly advises clients on various employment law related issues, such as employee invention, trade secret and privacy matters. In addition, Johanna specializes in various industry-specific regulatory and marketing issues, with a focus on the pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare sectors, and she has advised clients in a number of administrative appeal proceedings. She also has experience from various compliance cases, internal investigations and audits relating to data protection, anti-bribery, FCPA compliance and marketing. · Technology / TMT

Johannes Ahti

Partner Johannes Ahti has extensive experience in finance and debt capital markets transactions from acquisition and other event-driven financing to refinancing and financial restructuring, with a focus on leveraged finance (including leveraged loans, direct lending, private debt, and high-yield bonds), real assets debt (including real estate and infrastructure finance), and corporate debt (including investment grade and listed company finance). · Banking & Finance

Jonne Järvi

Jonne Järvi is a Partner and head of Roschier’s Finance & Restructuring practice in Helsinki. Jonne advises financial institutions, sponsors, and borrowers in a wide range of financing transactions, including project finance and real estate finance as well as corporate lending and financial restructuring. He has extensive experience from energy and infrastructure related financing and other large scale investment transactions. · Banking & Finance

Jouni Salmi

Partner Jouni Salmi is Head of Roschier’s Private M&A practice and co-Head of the Public M&A practice in Finland. He has extensive experience in complex multi-jurisdictional transactions, including industrial carve-outs and divestments, involving both industrial clients and private equity sponsors. Jouni has acted for numerous listed companies, private equity sponsors and multi-national corporations, and he has in-depth knowledge in a wide variety of industry sectors such as forest, telecommunications and payment industries. His previous work experience includes working as in-house counsel for a major telecommunications operator in Sweden and Finland. Jouni has extensive knowledge of both the Finnish and Swedish M&A market, and he has completed numerous deals in Finland and Sweden as well as in other jurisdictions. · Corporate / M&A

Jukka Paloheimo

Counsel Jukka Paloheimo has extensive experience from assignments relating to employment and labor law with special emphasis on employment related disputes and criminal matters, including matters related to labor offences as well as occupational health and safety matters. He is a trusted advisor to major companies in these type of complex matters, with previous experience in assisting client companies in matters relating to reorganization and redundancy. Jukka is an accredited mediator of the Finnish Bar Association. He frequently lectures on topics relating to employment law, employment disputes and occupational health and safety. He has also held webinars for international companies regarding Finnish employment law. Prior to joining Roschier, Jukka worked as a Counsel for another major Finnish law firm. · Employment

Kiira Tuohimaa-Leisio

Partner Kiira Tuohimaa-Leisio is specialized in private M&A and private equity. She has extensive experience in advising both international and domestic private equity sponsors and corporate clients in complex cross-border M&A, joint ventures, investments and refinancing transactions. She has particular experience and knowledge from transactions in the healthcare sector. · Private M&A

Laila Sivonen

Partner Laila Sivonen is specialized in commercial dispute resolution as well as corporate compliance and ethics. Laila’s practice covers arbitration, civil and administrative litigation as well as alternative dispute resolution. Laila has experience of international and domestic arbitration under various arbitration rules, including the ICC, FAI, SCC, and AAA as well as ad hoc arbitration. She has been involved in disputes relating to joint ventures and shareholders’ agreements, energy-related matters, service agreements, IT services, construction, litigation funding, employment law, insolvency, and competition law. She also regularly assists clients in enforcing arbitral awards and foreign judgments. Laila has had a key role in several complex, multi-jurisdictional investigations relating to suspicions of white-collar crime. She regularly advises clients on anti-corruption, whistleblowing, and sanctions-related matters. Laila has also conducted several compliance risk assessments in connection with transactions. · International Arbitration

Markku Tuominen

Partner Markku Tuominen is Head of Roschier’s Brand Protection practice. He has worked in the IP field since 1999, and has extensive experience in developing strategies to protect and defend clients’ intellectual property. He also has extensive experience in matters relating to trademarks, trade and domain names, design rights, copyrights and marketing law from IP prosecution to IP enforcement. Markku’s practice also focuses on IP litigation, disputes, valuation and portfolio management. He is an authorized trademark attorney in Finland. Markku has acted both for domestic and foreign globally operating clients representing a wide range of brand intensive industries in the fields of entertainment, fashion, design and IT. He regularly assists clients in managing their IP portfolios and advises on the use of different schemes to protect IP. · Intellectual Property

Martti Ylinen

Senior Associate Martti Ylinen is a member of Roschier's Real Estate, Energy & Infrastructure and FDI & Protective Security practices. He has experience in various types of real estate transactions, energy and infrastructure projects as well as other real estate advice, such as commercial real estate leasing, asset management and property development. Martti has also gained experience in dispute resolution through his court traineeship in the District Court of Helsinki and his work on disputes, particularly in the field of real estate law. He joined the firm in 2019. · Real Estate

Matias Wallgren

Partner Matias Wallgren is Head of Roschier’s Environment and Natural Resources practice. He specializes in environmental and energy law, and he has almost 30 years of experience in numerous landmark industry and infrastructure projects within several industry sectors, including the energy, infrastructure, mining, forestry, waste, and chemicals sectors. A substantial part of his work is related to advocacy both in Finland and in Brussels. He joined Roschier as a Partner in 2024. · Environment & Natural Resources

Merja Raunio

Senior Advisor Merja Raunio is one of the leading transfer pricing specialists in Finland. She has more than 30 years’ of experience in tax law, with a strong background in both domestic and international corporate taxation. During her career, she has worked with a wide variety of tax and transfer pricing planning projects, as well as with dispute avoidance and resolution covering both domestic processes and mutual agreement procedures. Merja has co-authored several books and publications on tax-related topics, including transfer pricing, and she regularly contributes articles to legal journals. · Tax

Miikka Konttinen

Partner Miikka Konttinen is Head of Roschier’s Industrial Investments practice. Miikka has approximately fifteen years of experience in the energy sector and specializes in large-scale industrial projects (green and brownfield, joint ventures, over the fence delivery models, process licensing, feedstock and product sales, etc.) and in sourcing contracts. Miikka has hands-on experience of projects throughout their life cycle, as well as contract management and sourcing processes. In addition to his focus on energy & infrastructure and industrial investments, Miikka has extensive experience from advising on various technology-related matters such as ICT outsourcing, business transformation projects, cloud services, software licensing and all things digital. · Energy & Infrastructure

Mika Alanko

Partner Mika Alanko is specialized in real estate transactions, environmental law, private M&A and private equity, with a broad scope of practice ranging from complex cross-border real estate portfolio transactions to establishment of club deal structures and technology-driven private M&A. · Real Estate

Mika Ohtonen

Partner Mika Ohtonen is Head of Roschier’s Tax & Structuring practice. He is widely acknowledged for his in-depth expertise and broad experience in M&A, private equity and real estate tax structuring and planning. He has extensive experience in working with matters related to cross-border transactions (both in- and outbound) and international taxation. Mika is constantly involved in high-end tax planning, including preliminary tax ruling procedures, related to acquisition structures, investment funds, financing and financial instruments, restructurings of distressed assets and management and employment incentive plans. Over the last few years Mika has been increasingly engaged by a number of clients to assist them in their tax audit procedures and to represent them in tax litigations involving e.g. complex transfer pricing issues and anti-avoidance claims – such work occasionally taking most of his time. · Tax

Mikael Segercrantz

Partner Mikael Segercrantz is Head of Roschier’s Marketing & Consumer practice. His practice focuses on intellectual property, regulatory matters and marketing & consumer law, including litigation. He has extensive experience in IP litigation in Finland and before the Court of Justice of the European Union, both as first and second chair. The proceedings have related to patent, trademark, copyright, design as well as other IP rights and involved questions such as preliminary injunctions, infringing acts and invalidity claims. Mikael has represented national and foreign companies in unfair competition lawsuits before the Market Court and self-regulatory boards of the industry as well as in administrative proceedings. Mikael regularly advises clients, including international large brand owners, in various types of regulatory and marketing law questions, such as marketing campaigns, product classification, pricing and labeling issues, with a particular focus on the pharmaceutical, medical device, food and cosmetic industries. He has also handled and coordinated a number of product recall campaigns in Finland and the Baltic States. · Intellectual Property

Mikko Manner

Mikko is a strategic advisor to a significant number of leading global companies in technology intensive industries. His clientele ranges from large-cap listed companies to globally recognized leaders in the growth company space and global private equity. He has worked extensively across key industries, such as telecommunications, healthcare, aerospace, defense, banking, online platforms, deeptech and gaming, to name a few. He regularly advises clients on IP and technology issues in operational, transactional and strategic contexts. In addition, Mikko has significant trial experience of arbitration, mediation and litigation before the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Supreme Court, the Market Court, the Helsinki Court of Appeals and the Helsinki District Court. · Intellectual Property

Paula Airas

Partner Paula Airas specializes in contentious corporate, insolvency, and regulatory matters, commercial dispute resolution as well as sanctions and trade compliance. Paula’s practice includes civil and criminal and administrative litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution (e.g. mediation), including strategic advice for dispute avoidance. She is also a trusted advisor on EU sanctions and related export control and other questions, including sanctions compliance and investigations, and assisting Western companies in exiting Russia. Due to her background in working with transactions, Paula has special emphasis on complex corporate, M&A and other transactional disputes, as well as shareholder agreements and shareholder disputes. Paula is also particularly experienced in complex insolvency matters with international aspects and supports clients both in insolvency related disputes and by providing strategic insolvency law advice. Paula also works with investigations and white-collar crime related matters. Paula has e.g. represented large Nordic companies and public entities in some of the biggest white collar crime cases on the market, as well as worked with international matters such as red notices. Further, Paula actively works with matters relating to industrial projects, where she has also gained valuable in-house experience from her secondment. In addition, Paula has litigated and arbitrated disputes relating to international trade, product liability, construction, business leases, international transport, and agency & distribution matters, etc. Apart from representing clients before courts and arbitral tribunals, and acting as arbitrator, Paula advises clients on strategic and compliance matters. She also regularly advises on various contractual matters and supports clients in drafting and negotiating their commercial agreements. · Dispute Resolution

Petri Avikainen

Partner Petri Avikainen is Head of the firm’s Equity Capital Markets and Public M&A practices. He has more than 20 years of experience of capital markets transactions, including equity, equity-linked and debt capital markets as well as public tender offers and listed company mergers. Petri also regularly advises Finnish listed companies and other corporate and investment banking clients on issues related to Finnish corporate and securities laws. During his career, he has advised on numerous market-leading and complex first-of-a-kind Finnish capital markets and corporate transactions. · Equity Capital Markets

Rainer Hilli

Partner Rainer Hilli is Head of Roschier’s award-winning Intellectual Property practice, which is one of the largest in the Nordic region. The practice has been recognized as the IP Law firm of the Year for Finland by Managing Intellectual Property Global Awards several times. Rainer has more than 20 years of experience in intellectual property disputes, including civil and administrative court proceedings as well as arbitration. He has also represented clients in various fields of industry including pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, media, paper & pulp, engineering and brand intensive industries. He is frequently involved in multi-jurisdictional IP litigation. Rainer has experience from working in cross-border litigations both as lead coordinator and as lead of the national team. He has also been advising on product liability and product safety, as well as regulatory compliance. Rainer’s practice also includes IP & technology driven transactions, licensing, franchising and technology transfers. · Intellectual Property

Sanna-Mari Seppälä

Sanna-Mari Seppälä is a Helsinki-based Principal Associate specialized in energy, infrastructure, natural resources and industrial projects with a particular focus on demanding and market first projects, especially in renewable energy. She has extensive experience in advising clients on environmental and energy law as well as permitting of development projects and compliance with permits in the construction and operational phases. Sanna regularly represents clients in negotiations for energy and other industrial projects that require an in-depth understanding of both the industry, and the regulatory framework, such as renewable energy PPAs, offtake agreements and joint development agreements. Her experience covers, among others, permitting and regulatory advice in respect of offshore wind energy projects, data center projects, electricity distribution systems as well as hydrogen and green fuel production plants, many of which have been the first of their kind in Finland. · Energy

Seppo Kymäläinen

Partner Seppo Kymäläinen is Head of Roschier's Corporate Advisory practice in Finland. He is also working with the firm's Public M&A and Equity Capital Markets practices in Helsinki. Seppo has extensive experience in public M&A and corporate and securities advisory work acting for issuers as well as for both industrial and private equity sponsored buyers. He regularly chairs general meetings and advises clients on governance matters, with further experience e.g. in corporate restructurings, squeeze-outs and joint ventures. · Corporate / M&A

Tero Jormanainen

Partner Tero Jormanainen is Head of the Private Equity and Private Funds practices in Finland. He is specialized in M&A, venture capital and private equity with a strong focus on technology related cross-border transactions. He has extensive experience in advising clients in M&A, venture capital and private equity transactions with depth of industry expertise within the healthcare, ICT and life science industries. · Private Equity

Toni Siimes

Partner Toni Siimes is Head of the firm’s Energy & Infrastructure practice. He has extensive experience from advising clients in industrial and infrastructure projects with a focus on the energy sector, green transition projects as well as retail and forestry industries. Toni is also specialized in M&A and corporate advisory, with a strong emphasis on cross-border transactions and private equity transactions. He has acted for various private equity clients in acquisitions and disposals, working also with the target companies during the holding period. Toni has extensive experience in complex shareholders’ agreements and joint venture structures, as well as project finance transactions with challenging project company structures. · Energy & Infrastructure

Wilhelm Eklund

Wilhelm Eklund is a Helsinki-based Partner with a particular focus on private equity. Wilhelm has extensive experience in advising private equity firms on complex cross-border transactions, including buyouts, minority investments, exits, as well as corporate clients in joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, and general M&A. · Private Equity