Lieke Attorneys Ltd.

Aimo Halonen specializes in energy and infrastructure sector projects, including related procurement and contractual matters. Halonen has extensive experience in various project deliveries and related contract processes with international technology and equipment suppliers. In addition to procurement processes and contract negotiations, he assists clients with issues related to project law, complaint and claims management, and transactions.In the energy sector, Halonen regularly consults clients on issues related to wind power, bio- and eco-power plants, geothermal energy and energy sales (PPA). Furthermore, Halonen has extensive experience in public sector projects.

Alisa Montonen

Alisa Montonen specializes in the drafting, negotiation and risk management of projects and contracts related to the energy and infrastructure sectors. Montonen’s assignments typically concern the conduct of extensive merger & acquisition processes, real estate, environmental and company law advice, and general contract drafting and negotiation. Montonen has extensive experience in various M&A processes, real estate projects and arrangements, environmental law advisory, and company law related issues and commercial agreements. Montonen has previously worked as a Senior Associate in one of Finland’s leading law firms, and as a visiting lawyer at a Finnish investment and asset management company.

Amanda Olmo

Amanda Olmo specializes in assignments related to energy and infrastructure and construction sector. Before joining Lieke, Amanda has worked in attorneys-at-law offices focusing mainly on construction law, dispute resolution, transactions and insolvency.

Anniina Rantasalo

Anniina Rantasalo specializes in dispute resolution and employment law assignments. She assists our clients extensively in various types of dispute assignments, as well as in other matters related to her special expertise. Rantasalo has trained on the bench.

Essi Winberg

Essi Winberg specializes in real estate and construction, as well as company, energy and contract law. Winberg assists our clients in a wide variety of areas in different types of assignments. Before joining Lieke, Winberg worked in a law firm specializing in business law, focusing especially on real estate law and mergers & acquisitions.

Hanna Tolonen

Hanna Tolonen specializes in M&A transactions as well as company and contract law related matters. Tolonen assists our clients extensively in transactions and in various types of company and contract law matters, as well as in other matters related to her expertise areas. Prior to joining our team, Tolonen has worked at a leading Finnish law firm focusing on M&A transactions in the private market.

Hanna Tuominen

Hanna Tuominen specializes in contract, energy and environmental law. Tuominen also assists in various corporate reorganizations and other projects related to her field of expertise. Prior to Lieke, Tuominen has worked for a law firm specializing in business law, focusing in particular on environmental and competition law and mergers & acquisitions.

Heidi Krootila

Heidi Krootila specializes in assignments related to commercial agreements, company law, M&A and data privacy. Before joining Lieke Krootila has worked in a research organization as a lawyer and as a Data Protection Officer. Krootila has also worked in a business law focused attorneys-at-law office where she specialized especially in M&A and real estate transactions.

Helena Kalmanlehto

Helena Kalmanlehto specializes in conflict management and commercial dispute resolution. Kalmanlehto advises and represents clients in all phases of legal conflicts and disputes in a wide range of industries and fields of law. She has particularly strong expertise in cases related to real estate, construction and engineering, energy, various commercial contracts, shareholders’ agreements and share purchase agreements, insolvency situations and the protection of creditors’ rights, as well as general contract law and a variety of damage and liability issues. She has been recognized for her deep understanding of conflict avoidance, legal risk management and effective negotiation strategies in contract drafting and day-to-day claims management. Kalmanlehto has over a decade of experience in representing clients in litigation and arbitration procedures and she has been involved in numerous complex and large-scale disputes during her career. Kalmanlehto’s in-depth knowledge of alternative dispute resolution and mediation theory enables her to advise clients on a wide range of dispute resolution strategies and to achieve a favourable outcome in mediation or negotiation. Kalmanlehto is an accredited mediator of the Finnish Bar Association. Kalmanlehto has previously worked at other leading Finnish business law firms. She has trained on the bench at the District Court and the Court of Appeal. Kalmanlehto is a member of the Finnish Bar Association’s Mediation Committee and the Legal Expert Team on Civil Process Law.

Henrik Koivuniemi

Henrik Koivuniemi specializes in competition law, public procurement and state aid law. Koivuniemi advises both companies and public organizations on all legal issues related to competition law, public procurement and state aid law. Koivuniemi has extensive experience in public procurement litigation, in addition to which he has experience in competition law and state aid litigation before national courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union. Before joining Lieke, Koivuniemi worked in other Finnish law firms and at the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority.

Ida Lindfors

Ida Lindfors specializes in company and contract law. Lindfors advises clients on a wide range of mergers and acquisitions and other corporate law matters, especially in the energy sector. Lindfors typically advises our clients on shareholders’ agreements, board and general meeting related matters, mergers and acquisitions, contract drafting and contract negotiation. Lindfors has 10 years’ experience in advising clients on corporate and contractual matters.

Iida Kivilähde

Iida Kivilähde specializes in assignments related to energy and infrastructure sector. Prior to Lieke, Kivilähde worked as Trainee in a tax and legal team of an international company specialized in offering audit, tax, and advisory services. Kivilähde has also worked as Trainee in an attorneys-at-law office.

Iiris Paavola

Iiris Paavola specializes in dispute resolution and employment law. Prior to joining Lieke, Paavola has worked in dispute resolution in other leading Finnish law firms. Paavola is licenced legal counsel.

Janne Veneranta

Janne Veneranta specializes in finance and debt capital markets transactions. Veneranta advises corporate borrowers, sponsors and financial institutions in all types of financing transactions, including project finance and real estate finance as well as corporate lending and financial restructuring. Veneranta has extensive experience from major energy and infrastructure related financing transactions, including traditional project financing and public-private partnership structures. Prior to joining Lieke, Veneranta has worked more than ten years in one of Finland’s leading law firms and as a lawyer in the European Investment Bank (secondment) as well as in a big four company.

Juho Lönnblad

Juho Lönnblad specializes in real estate, construction and project law issues and industry practices. Lönnblad’s special expertise also includes dispute resolution related to real estate and construction, as well as handling appeals. He provides comprehensive legal support in real estate projects, from the early stages of development to the final approval. Juho Lönnblad has been listed for several years in The Legal 500, an international directory evaluating the legal profession.

Jussi Ekonen

Jussi Ekonen is specialized in energy and infrastructure sector-related contract drafting, negotiation and contractual risk management. Ekonen typically advises clients in merger and acquisition processes, company law related questions and general contract drafting and negotiation. Ekonen has extensive experience in various M&A processes, Public Private Partnership projects, company law issues and commercial contracts. Previously, Ekonen has worked as a Senior Associate in one of Finland’s leading law firms and as a lawyer in an international listed company.

Kia Vuorenvirta

Kia Vuorenvirta specializes in company law, M&A and commercial agreements. Before joining Lieke, Vuorenvirta has worked as a lawyer in the Finnish central securities depository, part of an international group. In addition, she has experience from law firms during her studies.

Krista Hautakoski

Krista Hautakoski specializes in dispute resolution, employment and company law. Before joining Lieke, Hautakoski has worked as a Trainee at a Big Four company, the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Administrative Court and two law firms specializing in business law.

Kristiina Välimaa

Kristiina Välimaa specializes in assignments related to energy and infrastructure and construction sector. Välimaa assists our clients extensively in merger and acquisition processes and arrangements, commercial contracts and legal advisory matters relating to energy, infrastructure, and construction sectors. Before joining Lieke, Välimaa worked in an attorneys-at-law office specialized in assignments related to energy, infrastructure, and construction sector.

Maija Tevajärvi

Maija Tevajärvi specializes in assignments related to energy and infrastructure and construction sector. Before joining Lieke Tevajärvi has worked as a Tax Advisor in the energy sector and in a global corporation focused on business consulting.

Maija Ahtiainen

Maija Ahtiainen specializes in commercial dispute resolution and conflict management. Ahtiainen advises and represents clients in domestic and international arbitration, litigation, and mediation proceedings. She also advises clients on conflict avoidance and conflict management. Ahtiainen has more than a decade of experience in handling complex commercial disputes in various industries. She is particularly experienced in disputes related to construction, the energy sector, and various commercial and corporate contracts. Ahtiainen acts as counsel in arbitration proceedings, litigation before general and administrative courts, as well as in settlement negotiations and mediation. Ahtiainen has successfully handled disputes relating to various types of commercial contracts including different types of construction contracts, IT, supply, project and insurance contracts. She also has extensive experience in post-M&A disputes, disputes relating to shareholders’ and financing agreements, and disputes concerning various corporate, contractual and tort liability issues. Ahtiainen also has experience in matters relating to corporate criminal liability and white-collar crime. Ahtiainen has previously worked in the dispute resolution practices of other leading Finnish business law firms. She has also acted as tribunal secretary in several complex arbitration cases. Ahtiainen has trained on the bench at the District Court of Pirkanmaa. She has also completed an internship at the Supreme Court of Finland.

Marja Norrena

Marja Norrena specializes in litigation and arbitration. Norrena typically works with large and demanding disputes related to construction, commercial contracts, damages and shareholders’ agreements. Norrena has more than 20 years’ experience in litigation and arbitration over a variety of sectors. Norrena has also successfully represented clients in numerous assignments where litigation or arbitration has been avoided or where a dispute has been settled. In addition, Norrena serves as arbitrator. Norrena also advises our clients on employment law matters and acts as counsel in employment litigations. Norrena is a member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Commission on Arbitration and ADR.

Markus Pulkkinen

Markus Pulkkinen is specialized in public procurement, commercial agreements and IT law. Pulkkinen assists Lieke’s customers especially in matters that apply to public procurement legislation such as public procurement competitive tendering, drafting procurement agreements, procurement procedures and procurement-related rectification and litigation processes. Before joining Lieke, Pulkkinen worked as a lawyer in central purchasing body Hansel Ltd. and in the National Cyber Security Centre as a legal expert and as a lawyer.

Matias Lagerblom

Matias Lagerblom specializes in dispute resolution and commercial agreements. He also advises our clients widely in intellectual property and IT law related matters. Prior to his graduation, Lagerblom has worked at Lieke as a trainee. In addition, he has worked as a trainee in other leading Finnish business law firms and in an international listed company.

Michelle Merlich

Michelle Merlich specializes in assignments related to energy and infrastructure and construction sector. Merlich assists our clients in merger and acquisition processes and arrangements, commercial contracts and legal advisory matters relating to energy, infrastructure, and construction sectors. In addition, Merlich provides advise on general corporate and contract law matters. Before joining Lieke, Merlich worked as a lawyer in other business law firms specializing especially in real estate transactions and real estate development projects.

Mona Jortikka

Mona Jortikka is specialized in commercial agreements, company law, M&A and prevention of disputes. Jortikka assists our clients especially in questions regarding commercial agreements, dispute resolution and company law. Before joining Lieke, Jortikka worked as a legal counsel for a large cap Finnish listed company and as an attorney-at-law and associate lawyer for internationally oriented attorney-at-law offices. Jortikka has focused on contract and company law, dispute resolution and tax law. In addition to her law degree, Jortikka also holds M. Sc. (Economics).

Panu Vasama

Panu Vasama specializes in the law, contracts and projects regarding the operating environment of corporations in the energy industry, circular economy and the environment. Vasama advises our clients on contract matters and acts as a strategic partner in investment projects. Before Lieke, he has worked as a corporate lawyer for an international energy company.

Riina Pajala

Riina Pajala specializes in assignments related to energy and infrastructure and construction sector. Before joining Lieke Pajala worked as AML Specialist Advisor in the finance sector in duties related to preventing of money laundering and as an Associate Trainee of an energy practice of a business law focused attorneys-at-law office. In addition to her law degree, Pajala also holds M. Sc. (Economics).

Risto Mynttinen

Risto Mynttinen specializes in banking and finance. Mynttinen has previously worked as a lawyer and as a trainee in other leading Finnish business law firms.

Roosa Suutari

Roosa Suutari specializes in dispute resolution. Before joining Lieke, Suutari worked as a lawyer and trainee in other law firms and as a trainee in a district court.

Rosa Lång

Rosa Lång specializes in construction and IT law, project management and various commercial contracts. Lång also advises our clients on employment law issues. She is an experienced negotiator both in the contract negotiation phase and in dispute resolution situations. In addition to domestic assignments, she has experience in numerous international projects. In addition, Lång has worked for several years in an international construction group as an inhouse counsel for the Nordic and Baltic companies, and on a secondment in an international IT group. She has also held positions related to organizational compliance and GDPR functions, as well as risk management. Lång co-author the Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guide’s chapter Construction Law Finland 2022.

Sofia Sokero

Sofia Sokero specializes in assignments related to energy and infrastructure and construction sectors. Sokero advises our clients on commercial agreements and other legal advisory matters relating to energy, infrastructure, and construction sectors. Prior to her graduation, Sokero has worked at Lieke as a trainee. In addition, Sokero has worked as a trainee in another leading Finnish business law firm and in an energy company.

Suvi-Tuuli Saarnio

Suvi-Tuuli Saarnio specializes in M&A transactions as well as company and contract law. Prior to joining Lieke, Saarnio has worked as an attorney-at-law and associate lawyer in other leading Finnish law firms focusing on M&A transactions and company law.

Tuomas Rudanko

Tuomas Rudanko specializes in commercial dispute resolution. Rudanko advises and represents our clients in domestic and international arbitration and litigation proceedings as well as in conflict avoidance and conflict management. Rudanko has a particular focus on dispute resolution on large-scale industrial projects in the energy and construction sectors. Rudanko has previously worked as a dispute resolution lawyer in a leading Finnish law firm specializing in business law. Rudanko has trained on the bench in Helsinki District Court. Rudanko is a licensed legal counsel.

Tuuli Salmia

Energy & Infrastructure

Valmari Keskimäki

Valmari Keskimäki specializes in Dispute resolution and Commercial agreements. Keskimäki also advises our clients widely in Company law related matters.

Ville Vyyryläinen

Lieke’s Managing Partner Ville Vyyryläinen has over 15 years’ experience in advising clients in the Energy and Infrastructure Sector. Vyyryläinen focuses on advising the firm’s clients in energy and infrastructure transactions as well as in demanding corporate matters. Vyyryläinen has extensive experience in providing legal advice to public sector where he focuses in particular on corporate law matters, commercial negotiations and strategic advice. Vyyryläinen co-heads Lieke’s dynamic Energy and Infrastructure practice focusing on offering clients the best expertise in the field. The team knows the regulation, procedures, and practices of the industry and has experience in the largest and most demanding projects in Finland. Ville Vyyryläinen has been listed for several years in The Legal 500, an international directory evaluating the legal profession.

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