Roschier

The firm: Roschier is one of the leading law firms in the Nordic region with offices in Helsinki and Stockholm. It is well-known for its excellent track record of advising on demanding international business law assignments and large-scale transactions. The firm’s focus is on long-term client relationship management and offering business-oriented solutions to clients. Roschier works actively on increasing the co-operation with its clients within all the firm’s practice areas in order to maximize the quality of its work.

Main Areas of Practice

Roschier is a full-service law firm offering a comprehensive range of legal services.

Brand Protection
High-end services in trademark, design, domain name and copyright prosecution and portfolio management, IP valuation and IP strategy work.

Corporate Advisory
Main focus on corporate governance, risk management and board liability for public companies as well as advice in public company transactions.

Corporate Compliance & Investigations
Advising corporations, sovereigns and governmental bodies on compliance and regulatory matters in the Nordic region and internationally by providing preventive counselling, remedial advice and techniques to protect commercial stakeholder value and the moral and civic integrity of clients’ officers and staff.

Data Protection
Advising clients in various sectors on matters relating to data protection and privacy and cyber security.

Digitalisation & TMT
All aspects of operational, regulatory, contentious and transactional technology, media and telecommunications related legal services, with both regional and global capability.

Dispute Resolution
Main focus on international arbitration and complex commercial court disputes, including IPR litigation and white-collar crime as well as legal risk management, regulatory and compliance.

Emerging Companies
Multidisciplinary practice with services ranging from strategic counsel on the development, capture, and commercialization of the company’s technology, products, or services, to the planning of incentive structures, and raising of funding from venture capital, growth equity, venture debt or private equity investors.

Employment
Services cover all legal aspects of human resources, including representation in union negotiations as well as dispute resolution.

Energy & Infrastructure
Expert advisory services for individual clients or a consortium of partners in the public and private sectors involved in significant energy or infrastructure projects, industrial production sites, datacenters, complex real estate developments or operation and maintenance projects.

Equity Capital Markets
Wide range of regulatory and transactional work, including equity capital markets issuance, IPOs, share buybacks, capital structure optimisation, fund structuring, derivatives and other equity-related instruments.

EU & Competition
Full range of competition law services, including merger control, cartel and dominance proceedings, compliance, state aid, procurement and private enforcement.

FDI & Protective Security
Guiding our clients through the entire national process relating to the Finnish foreign direct investment (FDI) regime and the Swedish Protective Security Act. This includes the EU screening process with the European Commission as well as the rules specific to real estate transactions.

Finance & Restructuring
Wide range of complex finance- and restructuring-related matters, including for example, leveraged and structured finance transactions, bonds and other debt capital markets work as well as strategic advice to banks and management of borrowers.

General Commercial
Main focus on commercial business agreements e.g. purchase and supply contracts, distribution agreements, agency agreements and maintenance contracts.

Intellectual Property
Services cover the full range of intellectual property from copyright and trade secrets to patent advice including litigation.

Marketing & Consumer
Advice in all areas of marketing and consumer law, including litigation, with a strong focus on regulated industries such as the pharmaceutical, alcohol, foodstuff, daily consumer goods, tobacco and betting industries on EU and national level.

Outsourcing
Full range of technology and business process outsourcing — expertise extending to IT, infra, HR, payroll and other outsourcing projects in business areas, including telecoms, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, banking and pulp and paper.

Private Equity
Tailor-made services for structuring and executing private equity transactions, also offering in-depth expertise in structured financing and lending.

Private Funds
Expert advice regarding the establishment and operation of alternative private investment funds, separate investment mandates and other complex investment structures.

Private M&A
Services cover all aspects of a transaction from its initiation to completion with extensive experience in a wide range of different industries.

Public M&A
Services in relation to high-end advice and transactional work in public takeovers, reorganisations and mergers and demergers of public companies.

Public Procurement
Assisting clients on all aspects of public procurement; supporting clients in the public procurement process but also advising on related areas such as ICT, competition, intellectual property and various regulatory issues.

Real Estate & Environment
Services cover real estate acquisitions, property development, fund formation, tax and structuring, finance and environmental regulatory, processes and liability.

Tax & Structuring
Main focus on tax structuring, public company restructurings and tender offers.

Clients
Clients include leading domestic and international corporations, financial service and insurance institutions, investors, growth and other private companies with international operations, as well as governmental authorities.

International Work
Roschier has an established network of leading law firms across Europe, the US and other jurisdictions and works closely with these firms to provide its clients seamless cross-border service. The firm has extensive experience in applying joint working procedures and in acting as lead counsel in complex multi-jurisdictional assignments.

Roschier’s recent highlights include, among others,

• Acting for Philip Morris International in its SEK 176.4 billion public offer for  tobacco company Swedish Match
• Advising Volkswagen in Northvolt’s USD 1.1 billion financing round
• Acting for Basalt Infrastructure Partners, through Ride BidCo, in its SEK 9.3 billion public offer for Nobina
• Acting for CVC Funds and Nordic Capital, through their jointly owned company Teniralc BidCo, in its SEK 8.6 billion public offer for Cary Group
• Acting for Gamma Biosciences, a life science platform formed by the global investment firm KKR, in its USD 215 million sale of Astrea Bioseparations to Swedish listed company Biotage
• Acting for Daniel Wellington in connection with the formation of a strategic partnership with American-based watch manufacturing company Timex
• Advising the founders of American Song Contest Inc. in setting up The American Song Contest, an American tv-show based on the Eurovision Song Contest format, broadcasted by the NBC.