Avance Attorneys Ltd

Dispute Resolution, Compliance and Investigations, Capital Markets and Financial Regulatory, Environment, Governance, Data Protection and Cybersecurity

Minna Katajoki (née Vammeljoki) specializes in commercial dispute resolution, compliance and investigations, and corporate crime. Minna’s disputes practice covers dispute avoidance and conflict management, as well as litigation and arbitration e.g., under the FAI, the SCC and the ICC rules, over a wide range of topics such as share purchase and shareholders’ agreements, supply and distribution agreements and projects and construction. Minna also serves as arbitrator. In compliance and investigations, Minna advises clients in various compliance matters, including sanctions compliance, data protection and cybersecurity. Further, Minna supports clients in internal, criminal, and regulatory investigations into suspected non-compliance. In corporate crime, Minna advises companies, board members and management in matters relating to topics such as securities market offences, environmental crime, and bribery. Minna also advises in non-contentious matters including, among other things, board and management liability.

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Avance Attorneys Ltd, Partner 2023– Avance Attorneys Ltd, Counsel (9–12/2022) Sotamaa & Co, Partner (3–8/2022) Happeo, General Counsel (2021–2022) Roschier, Senior Associate (2016–2021) Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, EU litigation, Legal Officer (2012) Borenius, Associate (2010–2011, 2013–2015)

SCC/SAA Diploma Course for International Arbitrators, SCC Arbitration Institute, 2024 Certified Information Privacy Professional, Europe (CIPP/E), 2022–2024 Finnish Arbitration Academy, The Finland Chamber of Commerce, 2020 Attorney-at-Law, 2015– Trained on the bench, District Court of Hyvinkää, 2014 Master of Laws, University of Helsinki, 2010