Hannes Snellman

Managing Partner: Anna-Maria Tamminen

Number of partners: 27

Number of lawyers: approx. 154

Languages: English, Finnish, Swedish

Firm Overview:

Hannes Snellman is a leading Finnish business law firm entrusted by its clients in matters of critical importance. Hannes Snellman’s team of 250 dedicated professionals provides clients with the smartest decisions in demanding situations. The firm’s expertise spans a wide range of legal practice areas and industries.

Main Areas of Practice:

Administrative Proceedings

Capital Markets

Competition & Regulatory

Corporate Advisory

Compliance & Investigations

Criminal Investigations and Proceedings

Dispute Resolution

Employment

Energy

Environment & Natural Resources

Corporate Sustainability and ESG

Finance

Financial Services Regulation

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

Infrastructure

Intellectual Property

Joint Ventures & Commercial Cooperation

M&A, Private

M&A, Public

Private Equity & Financial Sponsors

Projects & Construction

Public Procurement

Real Estate

Restructuring & Insolvency

Tax

Technology & Data

Administrative Proceedings:

Hannes Snellman’s Administrative Proceedings Practice is experienced in resolving disputes and proceedings with authorities that typically relate to the environment, land use planning, building requirements, public procurement, taxation, competition, trademarks, and business licences. The team is also well versed in assisting clients in disputes related to licences and permits for regulated industries, such as pharmaceuticals, banking, energy, telecommunication, and healthcare services.

Main contacts: Managing Partner Anna Maria Tamminen [email protected], tel. +358 40 550 0687, Partner Klaus Metsä-Simola [email protected], tel. +358 45 262 8916, Specialist Partner Outi Jousi [email protected], tel. +358 40 563 7343, Partner Panu Siitonen, [email protected], tel. +358 50 547 1377, Partner Mikko Huimala [email protected], tel. +358 44 530 0753, Partner Heikki Vesikansa [email protected], tel. +358 40 844 2117

Capital Markets:

Hannes Snellman has one of the most experienced and largest capital markets practices in Finland. The team advises issuers, financial advisors, and other market participants in connection with IPOs, public tender offers, share issues, securities offerings, private placements, debt instruments, share buy-backs, and regulatory matters.

Main contacts: Partner Klaus Ilmonen [email protected], tel. +358 40 831 1868, Partner Mikko Heinonen [email protected], tel. +358 40 527 8818, Partner Sonja Siggberg [email protected], tel. +358 40 837 6967, Partner Riikka Rannikko [email protected], tel. +358 40 731 1611, Partner Antti Kuha [email protected], tel. +358 40 775 7440, Partner Anniina Järvinen [email protected], tel. +358 50 377 1177

Competition & Regulatory:

Hannes Snellman advises clients on the most challenging competition and regulatory issues they face, particularly in matters relating to competition law, antitrust, merger control, and domestic and foreign state aid. In addition to the work in competition and regulatory matters, Hannes Snellman’s Public Procurement Team advises on matters relating to public procurement processes, direct awards, disputes, etc.

Main contacts: Partner Mikko Huimala [email protected], tel. +358 44 530 0753

Corporate Advisory:

Hannes Snellman’s Corporate Advisory Team assists clients in complex corporate affairs in the context of corporate transactions, as well as board level and shareholder matters. Hannes Snellman has experience of advising leading domestic and foreign corporations on corporate law, securities regulation, and compliance matters. The team’s practice includes, for example, board advisory and corporate governance work, general meetings, takeovers and different M&A situations, disclosure issues, and internal investigations.

Main contacts: Partner Mikko Heinonen [email protected], tel. +358 40 527 8818, Partner Riikka Rannikko [email protected], tel. +358 40 731 1611, Partner Tuire Kuronen [email protected], tel. +358 40 743 2313, Partner Sonja Siggberg [email protected], tel. +358 40 837 6967, Partner Klaus Ilmonen [email protected], tel. +358 40 831 1868

Compliance & Investigations:

Hannes Snellman’s cross-practice Compliance & Investigations Team advises in all kinds of compliance issues, such as reporting channels, internal investigations, antitrust, privacy, corruption and bribery, and corporate governance. The team provides insight into best practices, common challenges, legislative changes, and new developments and trends.

Main contacts: Partner Markus Manninen [email protected], tel. +358 40 588 3645, Managing Partner Anna-Maria Tamminen [email protected], tel. +358 40 550 0687, Partner Anders Bygglin [email protected], tel. +358 50 544 6451

Criminal Investigations and Proceedings:

Hannes Snellman’s Criminal Investigations and Proceedings Practice assists clients in both internal and external investigations and in criminal court proceedings. The team advises corporations, corporate management, and other private individuals within the corporation on criminal matters relating to, for instance, business offences, coercive measures, crime-related actions for damages, data and communications offences, discrimination, employment offences, and environmental offences.

Main contacts: Partner Anders Bygglin [email protected], tel. +358 50 544 6451, Partner Markus Manninen [email protected], tel. +358 40 588 3645, Managing Partner Anna-Maria Tamminen [email protected], tel. +358 40 550 0687

Dispute Resolution:

Hannes Snellman’s Dispute Resolution Practice has experience in domestic civil, criminal, and administrative litigation all the way from the first instance to the Supreme Court and Supreme Administrative Court. The team is also well-versed in cross-border litigation, including precautionary measures, international assistance, and enforcement cases, for clients in both ad hoc and administered arbitration proceedings, including commercial and investment treaty arbitration, drawing on the team’s experience acting as arbitrators.

Main contacts: Partner Anders Bygglin [email protected], tel. +358 50 544 6451, Partner Markus Manninen [email protected], tel. +358 40 588 3645, Managing Partner Anna-Maria Tamminen [email protected], tel. +358 40 550 0687, Partner Panu Siitonen [email protected], tel. +358 50 547 1377

Employment:

Hannes Snellman’s Employment Team provides strategic advice on all aspects of employment law and employment disputes. The team advises clients on both contentious and non-contentious employment matters, including restructurings and reorganisations, business transfers, change negotiations, performance management, workplace investigations, discrimination allegations, collective bargaining agreements, executive and employment agreements, and matters related to employment policies, pensions and benefits, and incentive schemes. The team also assists clients in all employment law disputes in courts and arbitration proceedings and in employment-related criminal matters, and the team’s core expertise also includes setting up personnel representation in company administration and EWC arrangements, both in a domestic and cross-border context.

Main contacts: Partner Sanna Honkinen [email protected], tel. +358 40 745 6618, Counsel Jussi Herrainsilta [email protected], tel. +358 40 676 1547, Counsel Ingrid Remmelgas [email protected], tel. +358 40 068 3879

Energy:

Hannes Snellman’s Energy Team is experienced in significant and large-scale energy projects, transactions, and strategic regulatory advice. The team has assisted clients in some of the largest energy projects and transactions in its home markets across renewable and conventional energy sectors including onshore and offshore wind power, solar PV, energy storage, LNG, heat and steam supply, nuclear power, hydrogen, and e-fuels, as well as significant energy infrastructure and distribution arrangements. The clients in the energy sector represent stakeholders such as utilities, project sponsors and developers, system operators, international infrastructure funds, lenders, contractors, and public bodies.

Main contacts: Partner Maria Landtman [email protected], tel. +358 50 388 9468, Senior Partner Tapio Teräkivi [email protected], tel. +358 40 769 8273, Partner Klaus Metsä-Simola [email protected], tel. +358 45 262 8916, Partner Katja Perätalo [email protected], tel. +358 44 505 3764, Partner Rabbe Sittnikow [email protected], tel. +358 40 544 5280

Environment & Natural Resources:

Hannes Snellman’s Environment & Natural Resources Team advises clients in the field of environmental and real estate planning laws and legal aspects relevant to mining and other exploitation of natural resources. The team assists clients, for instance, with complicated environmental liability situations, permit application, and appeals processes, as well as critical planning and zoning procedures.

Main contacts: Senior Partner Tapio Teräkivi [email protected], tel. +358 40 769 8273, Partner Klaus Metsä-Simola [email protected], tel. +358 45 262 8916

Corporate Sustainability and ESG:

Hannes Snellman’s cross-practice team of lawyers provides advice from corporate governance and transactions, commercial contracts, procurement, and value chains to projects of green transition, sustainable finance, employment relations, ESG-related investigations and litigation.

Main contacts: Counsel Riikka Kuha [email protected], tel. +358 50 433 9026, Partner Anniina Järvinen [email protected], tel. +358 50 377 1177, Partner Klaus Metsä-Simola [email protected], tel. +358 45 262 8916, Managing Partner Anna-Maria Tamminen [email protected], tel. +358 40 550 0687

Finance:

Hannes Snellman’s Finance Team represents both lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of financing transactions, including secured and unsecured bank lending, bond issues, security structuring, hybrid and derivative instruments, and securitisation transactions. The team also advises in real estate financing and project financing within the renewable energy field and in insolvency and restructuring mandates. The team’s advisory includes services on all aspects of banking and financial markets regulation, advising local and international banks and other financial institutions on financial regulatory matters relating to licensing and registration issues, derivatives and other financial instruments, and various types of financial structures.

Main contacts: Partner Antti Nyberg [email protected], tel. +358 40 838 9375, Partner Markus Bremer [email protected], tel. +358 40 716 9676, Partner Matias Moberg [email protected], tel. +358 40 867 4634

Financial Services Regulation:

Hannes Snellman’s team provides advice from banking, investment services, and asset management to payment services, insurance, virtual currency, financial technology, derivatives, and capital and financial markets law and regulation. The team’s expertise spans various domains, including obtaining licences, registrations, and authorisations for local and cross-border activities, marketing and distribution of funds, the establishment and structuring of investment funds, and financial infrastructures, advising central depositories, clearing and settlement organisations, and their participants on derivatives trading, clearing, and settlement. The team’s services also encompass ownership assessment, fit & proper requirements, regulatory support in M&A transactions, internal policies (including AML/CTF related issues), consumer credits, insurance distribution, and sanctions and enforcement measures by the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority.

Main contacts: Specialist Partner Jari Tukiainen [email protected], tel. +358 40 518 1275, Partner Matias Moberg [email protected], tel. +358 40 867 4634

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI):

Hannes Snellman’s FDI Team advises on FDI screening matters, including conducting feasibility studies, managing authority contacts and the filing process, and advising on post-transaction compliance. The team has expertise in sectors such as defence and dual-use, national security, critical infrastructure, and security of supply as well as the relevant governmental authorities’ processes and case practice.

Main contacts: Partner Mikko Huimala [email protected], tel. +358 44 530 0753, Partner Tuire Kuronen [email protected], tel. +358 40 743 2313

Infrastructure:

Hannes Snellman’s Infrastructure Team advises international and regional infrastructure funds, banks, utilities and construction companies, and public sector parties within the areas of transportation, energy, and digital and social infrastructure.

Main contacts: Partner Maria Landtman [email protected], tel. +358 50 388 9468, Partner Katja Perätalo [email protected], tel. +358 44 505 3764, Partner Rabbe Sittnikow [email protected], tel. +358 40 544 5280, Senior Partner Tapio Teräkivi [email protected], tel. +358 40 769 8273

Intellectual Property:

Hannes Snellman’s Intellectual Property Practice advises in all aspects of intellectual property covering copyright, patents and utility models, designs, trademarks and domain names, geographical indications, and trade secrets. The team handles assignments in matters ranging from trademark filings to complex IP-related agreements and disputes and IP litigation and has experience in several sectors, such as healthcare and life sciences, food and beverage, consumer & retail, software, technology, media, and telecoms, the automotive industry, engineering and machinery, entertainment, gaming, gambling, and sports.

Main contacts: Partner Panu Siitonen [email protected], tel. +358 50 547 1377, Partner Jesper Nevalainen [email protected], tel. +358 40 582 7826

Joint Ventures & Commercial Cooperation:

Hannes Snellman’s Joint Ventures & Commercial Cooperation Practice advises clients on joint ventures and other strategic partnerships, complex long-term supply, distribution and outsourcing agreements, integrated production sites, and other forms of commercial cooperation.

Main contacts: Partner Tuire Kuronen [email protected], tel. +358 40 743 2313, Partner Riikka Rannikko [email protected], tel. +358 40 731 1611

M&A, Private:

Hannes Snellman’s M&A Team has some 30 lawyers focusing on private transactions only and covers all areas of M&A. The team advises and supports clients (sellers, founders, purchasers, etc.) in all types of transactions in Finland and cross-border, including acquisitions, divestments, carve-outs, equity investments, and joint venture transactions. The team also handles all kinds of corporate and group restructurings, such as mergers, demergers, and dissolutions.

Main contacts: Partner Tuire Kuronen [email protected], tel. +358 40 743 2313, Partner Mikko Heinonen [email protected], tel. +358 40 527 8818, Partner Riikka Rannikko [email protected], tel. +358 40 731 1611

M&A, Public:

Hannes Snellman’s public M&A practice is one of the largest in Finland and advises clients in public takeovers, mergers, demergers, and other corporate transactions.

Main contacts: Partner Mikko Heinonen [email protected], tel. +358 40 527 8818, Partner Klaus Ilmonen [email protected], tel. +358 40 831 1868

Private Equity & Financial Sponsors:

Hannes Snellman’s Private Equity & Financial Sponsors Practice covers the full spectrum of transactional work and fund formation.

Main contacts: Partner Erik Stenman [email protected], tel. +358 50 586 8065, Partner Thomas Landell [email protected], tel. +358 40 777 1600

Projects & Construction:

Hannes Snellman’s Projects & Construction Team advises project sponsors, lenders, acquirers, corporates, and contractors on all aspects of projects and project financing, for instance, in the energy and infrastructure sectors, including industrial and energy outsourcing. The team also advises employers, contractors, engineers, and consultants on standalone construction and engineering projects, including turnkey EPC contracts and EPCM agreements in respect of, for instance, power plants and industrial facilities, O&M contracts, and the procurement of large equipment, machinery, and industrial systems, and clients on standalone commodity supply agreements, including corporate power purchase agreements.

Main contacts: Partner Maria Landtman [email protected], tel. +358 50 388 9468, Partner Katja Perätalo [email protected], tel. +358 44 505 3764, Senior Partner Tapio Teräkivi [email protected], tel. +358 40 769 8273

Public Procurement:

Hannes Snellman’s Public Procurement Team has experience in assisting both domestic and foreign bidders in the Finnish market. The team assists in public procurement relating to technology, life sciences, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, real estate, and public transportation and has substantial experience of ESG projects. The team also advises in technology and software procurement, agreement modifications, in-house procurement, public procurement questions in mergers and acquisitions, and tender evaluation.

Main contacts: Specialist Partner Outi Jousi [email protected], tel. +358 40 563 7343, Partner Jesper Nevalainen [email protected], tel. +358 40 582 7826

Real Estate:

Hannes Snellman advises clients on all matters of real estate, including transactions, property development, and day-to-day legal asset management. The team also advises on structuring, fund formation, joint ventures, and financing, with clients consisting of international and local investors, funds, and developers.

Main contacts: Partner Matti Lajunen [email protected], tel. +358 40 720 7036, Senior Partner Tapio Teräviki [email protected], tel. +358 40 769 8273

Restructuring & Insolvency:

Hannes Snellman’s Restructuring & Insolvency Practice has extensive experience in both domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters and provides a broad range of legal, strategic, and commercial advice involving financially distressed companies. The team represents creditors, debtors, boards of directors, bondholders, investors, and auditors in complex formal restructurings, bankruptcies, pre-insolvency workouts, and in insolvency planning, negotiations, and litigation and also acts as bankruptcy and restructuring administrators.

Main contacts: Partner Markus Bremer [email protected], tel. +358 40 716 9676, Specialist Partner Jan Lilius [email protected], tel. +358 40 556 6782, Partner Antti Nyberg [email protected], tel. +358 40 838 9375

Tax:

Hannes Snellman’s Tax Team provides domestic and cross-border advice on all aspects of taxation, including corporate tax, indirect tax, and private wealth. The team advises leading domestic and international corporations, financial institutions, investors, and family offices and has extensive experience in complex transactions and defending taxpayers’ rights in high-end tax litigation.

Main contacts: Partner Heikki Vesikansa [email protected], tel. +358 40 844 2117, Specialist Partner Piia Ahonen [email protected], tel. + 358 44 520 8801, Specialist Partner Joakim Frände [email protected], tel. + 358 40 652 7055, Specialist Partner Harri Vehviläinen [email protected], tel. +358 40 183 1636

Technology & Data:

Hannes Snellman’s Technology & Data Team helps clients acquire and supply technology and IT, use and process data, and navigate the laws and regulations of digitalisation. The team advises clients on all matters relating to data protection and privacy laws, from privacy programmes to privacy litigation. The team’s expertise also includes technology litigation, sourcing & outsourcing, and the public procurement of technology and digital assets.

Main contacts: Partner Jesper Nevalainen [email protected], tel. +358 40 582 7826, Partner Panu Siitonen [email protected], tel. +358 50 547 1377