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The capital markets team at Waselius stands out for its integrated real securitisation and structured finance practice. It often advises clients on structured securities programmes, high yield and other bond issuances, and equity capital markets transactions. Team head Maria Lehtimäki regularly assists clients with bond issuances, ECM and derivatives transactions, and leveraged finance transactions.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘The Waselius team is very responsive, and always delivers despite high volumes of work and very short time frames.’

  • ‘Linda Nyman is particularly notable, and has provided excellent and unfailing service to us for years.’

  • ‘Great and collaborative team with competent individuals at all levels’

  • ‘Maria Lehtimäki is an outstanding individual with a particular focus on complex and novel structures. Highly appreciated for always finding commercially viable solutions to legal obstacles.’

Key clients

  • Bank of America Corporation
  • Barclays Bank
  • BNP Paribas
  • Citigroup
  • Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
  • Credit Suisse International
  • Deutsche Bank
  • First Quantum Minerals
  • Goldman Sachs International
  • HSBC
  • LocalTapiola Finance
  • MetLife Group
  • Natixis
  • NATWEST MARKETS N.V.
  • Pliant
  • Santander
  • Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
  • Société Générale Group
  • The Royal Bank of Canada
  • Whitebox Advisors LLC
  • Winance

Work highlights

  • Advised Santander Consumer Finance as the originator in the EUR 420 million full-cap stack public securitisation of a portfolio of Finnish consumer auto hire purchase contracts, dubbed “KIMI 13”.
  • Advised First Quantum Minerals Ltd in the Finnish law aspects of the offering of USD 1.6 billion in aggregate principal amount of senior secured second lien notes due 2029, the largest mining high yield deal of the decade globally.
  • Advised Pliant as originator in the groundbreaking significant risk transfer (SRT) transaction of European corporate credit card receivables.

Lawyers

Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Maria Lehtimäki

Other key lawyers

Linda Nyman, Timo Lehtimäki