Lawyers

Lotta Uusitalo

Lotta Uusitalo

Work Department

Commercial Contracts, Competition & Procurement, Corporate Responsibility & Sustainable Law, Energy & Infra, Legal Design & Technology, Mergers & Acquisitions

Position

Partner Lotta Uusitalo is the head of our Competition & Procurement practice. Lotta routinely advises clients in all aspects of competition law: merger control, cartel investigations, behavioral antitrust matters, abuse of dominance, vertical restrictions and damages actions. Lotta has significant experience in advising clients in co-operation with competitors and exchange of information, particularly for trade associations and on the energy & infra sector. Lotta gives advise also in state aid and public procurement matters. In addition, Lotta has significant general commercial experience particularly from automotive sector. She is also the head of our Corporate Responsibility & Sutainable Law practice and the team leader of our internal sustainability and green transition team.

Lotta delivers timely, practical and commercial legal advice and has the understanding of the client’s business as a priority. Lotta is interested in legal design and has developed legal tech for compliance purposes.

Career

Procopé & Hornborg, Partner 2007- Procopé & Hornborg, Associate 1999-2003 District Court of Porvoo, Trainee Judge 1998-1997 Ministry of Labour, Chief Inspector 1996-1997

Languages

Finnish, English, Swedish, French and German

Memberships

Finnish Competition Law Association Finnish Bar Association International Bar Association Finnish Corporate Responsibility Law Association, deputy member of the Board Finnish Bar Association, Competition Law Specialist Group EU12 Group by the Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland (procurement, competition and state aid)

Education

Master of Laws, Diplôme des études approfondies en droit économic Européenne, Bruges, Belgium 1996 Master of Laws, University of Helsinki 1995 Trained on the Bench 1997

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