Lieke Attorneys Ltd.

Dispute Resolution, Real Estate & Construction

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.

2021–                     Counsel, Attorney-at-Law, Lieke Attorneys Ltd

2017–2021          Senior Associate, Attorney-at-Law, Lieke Attorneys Ltd

2016–2017          Senior Associate, Attorney-at-Law, Krogerus Attorneys Ltd

2014–2016          Associate, Krogerus Attorneys Ltd

2013–2014          Law Clerk, Eastern Finland Court of Appeal

2013                        Law Clerk, North Savo District Court

2012–2013          Associate, Krogerus Attorneys Ltd

2011                        Associate Trainee, Hannes Snellman Attorneys Ltd

2009–2010        Paralegal, Lindfors & Co Attorneys at Law Ltd

2007–2008       Trainee, Paul Perovuo Ky, Attorneys-at-Law

Finnish, English

2016 Member of the Finnish Bar Association

2014 Trained on the bench (District Court of North Savo and Eastern Finland Court of Appeal)

2011 Master of Laws, University of Helsinki

2008-2009 University of Gothenburg, Sweden