DLA Piper Finland Attorneys Ltd‘s finance and projects department is especially experienced in public tender offers, IPOs, green bonds, and debt capital markets assignments, including advice on clients’ Medium-Term Note (MTN) and Euro Commercial Paper (ECP) programmes. Co-head Kristiina Hirva focuses on financial regulatory advice, spanning debt capital markets, alternative investment fund formation and fund raising assistance; while co-head Salla Tuominen focuses on complex financing and corporate transactions, advising banks and other institutional clients.

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  • ‘Very professional team. Practical, hands-on, and can-do approach.’
  • ‘Professional but practical approach. Flexible and easygoing people.’

  • ‘They are a vendor, not just a subcontractor. They take proactive ownership and responsibility for the matters they have the expertise of. They have deep subject matter expertise which they apply to help us avoid having to learn things the hard way.’

  • ‘Jonathan Andersin is extremely helpful, flexible and pragmatic.’

Key clients

  • PPG Industries, Inc.
  • Premico
  • Nordic Food Tech Venture Capital Oy
  • Fairpoint Capital AB
  • Helppy Oy
  • Tenendum Oy
  • EQT Ventures I and EQT Growth
  • Aktsiaselts Tallink Grupp
  • Open Ocean Ventures
  • Superhero Capital
  • Peak Capital
  • NFT.VC Fund I Ky
  • Avidly Plc
  • Teollisuuden Voima Oyj
  • Bregal Milestone
  • Sotkamo Silver Oy
  • The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA)
  • Enersense International Oyj
  • Solteq Plc
  • IPR. VC Fund I Ky
  • Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company
  • H&M
  • Saari Partners Oy and Saari I Fund Ky
  • Tenendum Oy

Work highlights

  • Advised Avidly Plc on the public tender offer for all its shares and special rights made by a holding company of Adelis Equity Partners Fund III AB.
  • Advised Saari I Ky, a private equity fund operated by Saari Partners Oy, on the exit from Cervi Talotekniikka Oy, a specialist in ventilation, clean indoor air and cooling.
  • Advised Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) on the issuance of a €600m seven-year bond with an annual coupon of 4.75% issued under TVO’s EMTN programme and listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Kristiina Hirva, Salla Tuominen

Other key lawyers

Jonathan Andersin