The corporate and M&A practice at Dottir Attorneys Ltd. is highly active in handling private and public M&A, equity investments and IPOs, due diligence issues, contract negotiations and regulatory mandates. The firm also specialises in assisting clients with corporate administration and technology transactions. Practice head Juha Nurminen provides counsel on M&A, private equity, venture capital and capital market transactions. Johanna Rantanen, Jukka Pello and Katja Häkkinen are also noted for their expertise in this area.
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Testimonials
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- ‘The team is very proactive, provides sound and balanced commercial advice, has excellent market knowledge and is a pleasure to work with.’
- ‘Johanna Rantanen - excellent market knowledge and negotiation skills.’
- ‘Jukka Pello: pragmatic and pleasant to work with. Johanna Rantanen: good negotiator. Katja Häkkinen: good negotiator, highly skilled and pleasant to work with.’
- ‘Agile team, able to handle very demanding schedules. Able to work across language and national boundaries, running on multiple tracks in parallel. Knowledge of international legal practices, understanding of country-specific peculiarities and an in-depth ability to explain Finnish law.’
- ‘Proactive people who you gladly take into demanding negotiations. Agile, responsive and trustworthy - these people know what they are doing, and in case they do not - they can bring in an external expert who does.’
- ‘Johanna Rantanen is an excellent leader, always solving challenges quickly.’
- ‘Unique way of working as a team with the client - insightful suggestions and an approach where we as a client didn't need to dig too much into the details. Great team as individuals as well.’
- ‘Johanna Rantanen: very good discussions with us as a client and enormous knowledge on the matter. Great problem-solving skills.’
Key clients
- Beijer
- CapMan Growth
- Cloud2
- Evolver Equity
- Greencode Ventures
- GTT Strategic Ventures
- Icebreaker.vc
- Kemijoki
- Knowit
- Kovanen Capital
- Kvanted
- Maki.vc
- NordicNinja
- Puro Finance
- Reaktor
- Restolution
- SEB Greentech Venture Capital
- Sparkmind.vc
- Tesi
- Timma
- Verge HealthTech Fund
- Warner Music Finland
- Witted Megacorp
- Woodly
- World Fund
Work highlights
- Advised a consortium led by CapMan Growth on the acquisition of an environmental technology company, Tana.
- Advised Puro Finance on its combination with a listed bank, Alisa Bank.
- Advised the lead investor NordicNinja on the €36.5m Series A funding round of Onego Bio.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Juha Nurminen