Bird & Bird’s employment practice provides its clients with a comprehensive range of legal advice across the full spectrum of contentious and non-contentious employment law. The team, which is part of the firm's Nordic-wide employment practice, also covers business immigration work, employee incentives and benefits matters, and advises on collective negotiations, covenants and confidentiality issues; it also has notable expertise in handling transaction-related employment work. Maisa Nikkola and Teea Kemppinen lead the team.
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‘Teea Kemppinen provides excellent employment law advice on cross-border matters and is always available.’
‘Very professional, personal and proactive approach’
‘Capability, know-how, proactiveness and reliability. My main contact has been Teea Kemppinen.'
‘My full recommendation for Maisa Nikkola - she has an excellent ability to find a solution to complex disputes and thorough understanding of the complexities of employment law.’
Leading individuals
Teea Kemppinen is a partner in Bird & Bird's Helsinki office and a member of our Finnish Employment Group. She specialises in all aspects of employment and labour law, including employment related dispute resolution where the advice is mainly focused on preventive and strategic action.
Maisa Nikkola is a partner in our Helsinki office, where she is Head of our Nordic and Finnish Employment practice groups as well as our Finnish Employee Incentives & Benefits group. She advises our local and international clients on complex employment issues. Focusing on all aspects of employment relations, Maisa advises clients on a broad range of employment and HR matters on a daily basis including transactions, contractual issues, the negotiation and termination of contracts, collective and trade union matters, co-operation procedures, restructuring and discrimination. In addition to employment law, Maisa specialises in outsourcing, trade secret issues and privacy and data protection. She has experience in complex litigation matters. Her team is regularly working on a broad range of cross-border projects and they have an excellent network with colleagues located all over the world at our Bird & Bird offices. They have longstanding experience in taking an innovative and strategic approach to their work. Her team is often thanked for being an everyday strategic partner for their clients.
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Maisa Nikkola, Teea Kemppinen