Hannes Snellman (Finland)

Capital Markets

Partner

Klaus Ilmonen heads our Capital Markets practice in Helsinki. His practice includes equity capital markets and other corporate transactions involving public corporations. He has considerable experience from public takeovers, as well as from cross-border transactions. He also works with governance of public corporations.

Klaus has served on a consultative group for developing EU corporate finance regulation and has participated in drafting Finnish takeover regulation. He also teaches securities regulation at the University of Helsinki.

Klaus has qualified as an attorney in the State of New York, and practised U.S. securities law in the London office of the law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where he represented European issuers and underwriters in international securities offerings. He also worked on international M&A transactions.

Klaus has been a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School, he holds a LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School in New York and a doctorate in law from the University of Helsinki.

He has served as an officer with Finnish forces in Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has lectured on operational law in Finland and abroad.

English, Finnish, Swedish

Member of the Consultative Working Group on Corporate Finance of the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA)Member of the expert group on securities regulation of the Finnish Bar AssociationManaging director of the Mannerheim Foundation

Doctor of Laws, University of Helsinki, 2016Harvard Law School, Visiting Researcher, 2011 - 2012 (Jan.)Partner, Hannes Snellman, 2007Associate, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, London, 1999 - 2002LL.M. (Stone Scholar), Columbia University, 1999