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Tax

Borenius

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Borenius’ full-service tax practice handles various kinds of tax matters spanning tax disputes, M&A and real estate-related tax work, VAT issues, indirect taxes and transfer pricing work. The department has specialist experts for transfer pricing and indirect tax mandates, and is also a member of the Taxand network. Co-head Einari Karhu advises on corporate taxes and has extensive experience in international tax matters and M&A structuring work, as well as tax litigation; while fellow co-head Heikki Wahlroos advises on domestic and international tax matters including corporate and personal income tax, M&A tax, and tax mandates relating to the private equity and venture capital sectors. Janne Juusela departed to Castrén & Snellman in January 2023.

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  • ‘The team's quality of work is always top, and we can trust their advice.’

  • ‘Heikki Wahlroos is very professional and has a deep knowledge of tax issues relating to our quite complex private equity group structure. He can demonstrate complex issues in a practical way and is a great person to co-operate with.’

  • ‘Heikki Wahlroos quickly understands the company's needs and answers questions posed to him with expertise, but understandably and quickly enough. He is willing to explain things in a way that best suits the situations and needs of each company.’

  • ‘Proactive and thinks on behalf of us.’

  • 'Einari Karhu and Sampo Viding are super easy to work with.'

Key clients

  • Nokian Tyres Plc
  • Suzano
  • CapMan Plc
  • Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing
  • Intera Partners Buyout Funds
  • Agnico Eagle
  • Aberdeen Standard Investments
  • Fortum Plc
  • Harvia Plc
  • Netflix, Inc.
  • Kemira Plc

Work highlights

  • Advised TA Associates on its acquisition of Epassi Group together with Warburg Pincus with respect to all Finnish tax matters arising during the acquisition.
  • Acted for a consortium of Finnish public companies in a tax dispute relating to dividend withholding taxation.
  • Advised Norvestor on its acquisition of majority ownership in Rantalainen.

Lawyers

Leading partners
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Heikki Wahlroos
Partner Heikki Wahlroos advises on domestic and international tax matters in corporate and personal income taxation. Heikki has extensive experience in M&A tax and structuring, as well as in taxation in the private equity and venture capital sector. He also advises clients regularly in tax disputes ranging from domestic tax audits to international transfer pricing litigations. In addition to transactions and tax controversy work, Heikki has wide experience in the taxation of management incentive structures, the cross-border taxation of executives and personal income taxation in general
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Einari Karhu
Partner Einari Karhu advises on domestic and international tax matters in corporate taxation. Einari has extensive experience in international tax matters and M&A structuring as well as tax litigation.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Einari Karhu, Heikki Wahlroos

Other key lawyers

Sampo Viding

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