Banking and finance

Roschier

Roschier‘s finance and restructuring team is reputed for its depth of experience in lending and debt capital markets transactional work and financial restructurings. The group is engaged by banks active in the Nordics, large Nordic corporates, and international and Nordic private equity, real estate, infrastructure and private debt investors. Areas of expertise include project financing transactions in relation to the energy sector, especially green energy project work, which is co-head Jonne Järvi’s specialty. Co-head Johannes Ahti advises on event-driven financings, refinancing issues, and financial restructurings with a focus on leveraged, corporate, real estate, and infrastructure finance mandates, and ‘excels within his areas of expertise’. Helena Viita focuses on finance and debt capital markets work, including acquisition finance transactions and securitisation matters.

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Testimonials

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‘Expert level knowledge of the market.’
‘Johannes Ahti excels within his areas of expertise.’
‘The team has a good size and diverse capabilities. Good ability to leverage specialist experience from other teams when needed.’
‘Johannes Ahti is very responsive and resourceful.’

Key clients

Nordea
OP Corporate Bank
SEB
Danske Bank
Nokia
Outokumpu
IK Partners
Blackstone
Taaleri Energia

Work highlights

Represented Danske Bank in the €2bn financing for S-Bank's purchase of Handelsbanken’s Finnish private customer, asset management and investment services operations.
Represented Hamburg Commercial Bank in the financing for a leading global investment company acquiring a large residential property portfolio.
Represented Nordic banks SEB and Nordea in a series of loan transactions for the large Finnish utility Helen and renewable energy investor Ålandsbanken Wind Power Fund to finance the acquisition and construction of four wind farms, comprising a total of 84 wind turbines with a joint capacity of 500MW.