Roschier

Head of Office: Johan Sidklev

Number of partners worldwide: 53

Number of other lawyers worldwide: 335

Languages: Swedish, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Danish, Italian

Firm Overview:

Roschier is one of the leading law firms in the Nordic region with offices in Helsinki and Stockholm. It is well-known for its excellent track record of advising on demanding international business law assignments and large-scale transactions. The firm’s focus is on long-term client relationship management and offering business-oriented solutions to clients.

Main Areas of Practice:

Brand Protection:

High-end services in trademark, design, domain name and copyright prosecution and portfolio management, IP valuation and IP strategy work.

Complex Construction:

Customized advisory services at all stages of a construction project – from planning and permitting to full implementation.

Corporate Advisory:

Focus on corporate governance, risk management and board liability for public companies as well as advice in public company transactions.

Corporate Compliance & Investigations:

Advising corporations, sovereigns and governmental bodies on compliance and regulatory matters by providing preventive counselling, remedial advice and techniques to protect commercial stakeholder value and the moral and civic integrity of clients’ officers and staff.

Data Protection:

Advising clients on matters relating to data protection and privacy and cyber security.

Digitalisation & TMT:

All aspects of operational, regulatory, contentious and transactional technology, media and telecommunications related legal services, with both regional and global capability.

Dispute Resolution:

Focus on international arbitration and complex commercial court disputes, including IPR litigation and white-collar crime as well as legal risk management, regulatory and compliance.

Emerging Companies:

Legal advisory to emerging and growth companies, with a particular emphasis on tech companies, and with intellectual property as one of the core assets.

Employment:

Services cover all legal aspects of human resources, including representation in union negotiations as well as dispute resolution.

Energy & Infrastructure:

Expert advisory services for individual clients or a consortium of partners in the public and private sectors involved in significant energy or infrastructure projects, industrial production sites, data centers, complex real estate developments or operation and maintenance projects.

Environment & Natural Resources:

Advise regarding complying with regulatory obligations, securing permits and licenses, managing environmental risks and liabilities, or resolving related disputes and litigation.

Equity Capital Markets:

Wide range of regulatory and transactional work, including equity capital markets issuance, IPOs, share buybacks, capital structure optimisation, fund structuring, derivatives and other equity-related instruments.

EU & Competition:

Full range of competition law services, including merger control, cartel and dominance proceedings, compliance, state aid, procurement and private enforcement.

FDI & Protective Security:

Guiding clients through the entire national process relating to the Finnish foreign direct investment (FDI) regime and the Swedish Protective Security Act.

Finance & Restructuring:

Wide range of complex finance- and restructuring-related matters, i.e., leveraged and structured finance transactions, bonds and other debt capital markets work and strategic advice to banks and management of borrowers.

General Commercial:

Main focus on commercial business agreements e.g. purchase and supply contracts, distribution agreements, agency agreements and maintenance contracts.

Industrial Investments:

Expertise throughout the life cycle of industrial investment projects, be it circular economy, nuclear energy, hydrogen generation, carbon capture and storage, wind energy, heat recovery, or other similar areas.

Intellectual Property:

Services cover the full range of intellectual property from copyright and trade secrets to patent advice including litigation.

Marketing & Consumer:

Advice in all areas of marketing and consumer law, including litigation, with a strong focus on regulated industries such as the pharmaceutical, alcohol, foodstuff, daily consumer goods, tobacco and betting industries on EU and national level.

Outsourcing:

Full range of technology and business process outsourcing — expertise extending to IT, infra, HR, payroll and other outsourcing projects in business areas, including telecoms, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, banking and pulp and paper.

Private Equity:

Tailor-made services for structuring and executing private equity transactions, also offering in-depth expertise in structured financing and lending.

Private Funds:

Expert advice regarding the establishment and operation of alternative private investment funds, separate investment mandates and other complex investment structures.

Private M&A:

Services cover all aspects of a transaction from its initiation to completion with extensive experience in a wide range of different industries.

Public M&A:

Services related to high-end advice and transactional work in public takeovers, reorganisations and mergers and demergers of public companies.

Public Procurement:

Expertise within public procurement; supporting clients in the public procurement process but also advising on related areas such as ICT, competition, intellectual property and various regulatory issues.

Real Estate:

Services cover real estate acquisitions, property development, fund formation, tax and structuring, finance and environmental regulatory, processes and liability.

Tax & Structuring:

Expertise in tax structuring, public company restructurings and tender offers.

Clients:

Clients include leading domestic and international corporations, financial service and insurance institutions, investors, growth and other private companies with international operations, as well as governmental authorities.

International Work:

Roschier is the Finnish member firm of Lex Mundi, the world’s leading association of independent law firms, and works closely with its established network of leading law firms across Europe, the US and other jurisdictions to provide seamless cross-border services. The firm has extensive experience in applying joint working procedures and acting as lead counsel in complex multi-jurisdictional assignments.

Roschier’s Recent Work Highlights Include:

■ Advising Freya Investissement in its SEK 13 billion acquisition of Kinnevik's entire shareholding in Tele2;

■ Advising Klarna in its carve-out and divestment of Klarna Checkout;

■ Advising Atlas Luxco S.à r.l. in its USD 2.9 billion cash offer for Millicom International Cellular S.A;

■ Advising Quadrant Private Equity and the founders in the sale of Quad Lock to Thule Group;

■ Advising Ontario Teachers in its joint acquisition with Nordic Capital of Max Matthiessen;

■ Advising Nokia in its USD 2.3 billion acquisition of Infinera;

■ Advising Mitsubishi Corporation as it explores low-carbon aluminium production in Finland;

■ Advising Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) in the acquisition of Silo AI;

■ Advising Corten Capital in its acquisition of Roima Intelligence;

■ Advising Blackstone in the acquisition of a portfolio of urban logistics properties located mainly in the Helsinki metropolitan area.