Christian Wik

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Christian is one of the leading competition law experts in the Nordics. He began his practice in 1986 at Roschier Attorneys, dealing with private and public M&A transactions as well as litigation. With Finland’s accession to the EU, the focus of his practice shifted to EU and competition law and he built a large practice group in this field at Roschier covering Finland, Sweden and the EU.

During the last 25 years he has handled large cartel investigation and procedures as well as important assessments of the conduct of dominant companies both in the Nordic countries and Brussels. He has also worked extensively with competition law issues relating to all kind of transactions and handled numerous merger control notifications and investigations in Finland and the EU, including many conditionally approved transactions. More recently, he has also handled FDI notifications and procedures in Finland.

Christian has also worked on several large international compliance investigations, in which legal risks of companies have been examined and managed in close cooperation with the management and Board of the companies. In addition, he has throughout his career drafted and negotiated various agreements, such as Shareholders’, Distribution and Agency Agreements, mainly relating to competition law issues therein.

Over the span of three decades, Christian worked as a partner at Roschier whereafter he has worked at Edelle Attorneys until joining Geradin Partners.

Christian has for years been ranked Band 1 in Finland in Competition/European Law by Chambers Europe and was recently lifted as the exclusive practitioner in this field to Senior Statesperson (2023). He is also recognized as a leading expert in competition by other major international legal directories such as The Legal 500 (Hall of Fame) and Who’s Who Legal (2024), where he also is noted as a Global Leader in Competition (2023).

According to clients, Christian is “very competent in competition law issues” (Chambers Europe, 2023) and “an outstanding expert in competition law who provides to-the-point advice” (Chambers Europe, 2018). Clients also point out that he is “widely renowned for his expertise and is particularly noted in the market for international work” (Chambers Europe, 2020). Clients further describe him as a “good litigator, with long-standing experience in Finland” (Chambers Europe, 2019).

To learn more about Christian, visit https://www.geradinpartners.com/team/christian-wik/