About

SOK Corporation, a subsidiary of Finnish retail cooperative S Group, operates in the supermarket space in Finland, as well as the travel and hospitality industry in the Baltic countries and Russia. Virpi Ojanen acts as legal counsel for responsible for retail chain operations and management at SOK. The SOK legal department closely align its decisions to provisions of the Cooperatives Act, in addition to various regulatory requirements, adding another layer of intricacy to decisions. The team provides an innovative and creative approach to what can be considered as a traditional organisation, and is a key advisor on the development of new business models such as e-commerce. The team is known to standout externally as ‘providing excellent, pragmatic and focused day-to-day support to the management’, as well as for its ‘business understanding, legal expertise and communication skills being exceptional’.