TMT

Roschier

Well-known for its broad capabilities across the TMT spectrum, Roschier advises an array of clients in IT and technology, media and entertainment and telecommunications. Arto Linnervuo is head of digitalisation, TMT and outsourcing and advises clients on various technology-related matters in both private and public sectors; Johanna Lilja is head of data protection and focuses on all aspects of data protection and privacy such as internal compliance audits, GDPR compliance and cross-border data transfers. Managing partner Mikko Manner has extensive experience in both contentious and non-contentious technology, IP and ICT work, while Miikka Konttinen is highly regarded in ICT, automation, IOT, telecommunications and various industrial technology contracts.

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Testimonials

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‘Very recommendable team in IT-related matters. The team has a thorough understanding of the business models and the drivers of each market player type, so they are able to give sound commercial advice on top of purely legal advice.'
‘Arto Linnervuo and Miikka Konttinen have an outstanding understanding of market practices and they are able to give business-oriented pragmatic advice in very understandable manner.’
‘Arto Linnervuo and the team have the ability to integrate their work into technical and business topics. Contracts prepared by the team are also working as operational manuals in many cases.’
‘Their ability to integrate to our internal tools and systems is unique and something we value extremely high. This truly allows teams to work efficiently in a global setting.'
‘Arto Linnervuo and his team is exceptionally well positioned to support large scale multi-jurisdiction deals. Arto is most valuable in complex contract negotiations.'
'Emma Swahne was instrumental for us. Not only is she highly knowledgeable in the area of privacy, personal data and IT related legal topics - she is extremely strong negotiating and managing these types of complex transactions.'
'On top of all the high-quality legal advice, the team is super nice and easy to work with. This makes a big difference.’

Key clients

Nokia
Autoliv
GE Healthcare
Telia
Epic Systems Corporation
Fiskars
Discovery Media
Qvantel
Neste
Moomin Characters
Kemira
Metso
Veoneer
PayPal
Bauer Media Finland Oy
Fortum
Quest Diagnostics Inc.
Wolt

Work highlights

Advised Nokia in its recently announced global partnership agreement with Red Hat to tightly integrate Nokia’s core network applications with Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat OpenShift.
Advised Metso in relation to a major global digital transformation programme as well as large scale outsourcing agreements with its key IT vendors.
Advised Sweden-/US-based Autoliv Inc. on complex global technology licensing transactions, technology standardization and other R&D collaboration projects as well as global launch of its ground-breaking Safety Score app/cloud-based driver monitoring and scoring system.

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