Laura Huomo

Energy; Capital Markets

Laura Huomo is a partner in Bird & Bird's Real Estate & Infrastructure group in Helsinki, heading our Energy practice. In addition, she works with our Corporate and M&A Group with equity and debt related transactions.

Laura has 20 years of experience working for both Nordic and international law firms. She works with energy companies, municipalities, municipality owned companies and governments to navigate successful solutions within the energy transition. She assists her clients with regulatory issues, project structures, legal risk matrixes and energy related M&A activity.

Further, Laura advises companies with their initial public offerings, share issues and rights offerings as well as debt issues. To her great delight, energy companies are also looking into tapping into the capital markets as part of their strategic planning, and in those transactions, she can combine her two strongest areas, energy and capital markets expertise to the benefit of her clients.

Member of the Finnish Bar Association

Member of the New York State Bar Association

• Administer IPO 2021

• Puuilo IPO 2021

• Enersense list transfer to official list 2021

• Stockman share offering 2021

• Musti ja Mirri IPO 2020

• Coronaria - Silmäasema public tender offer 2019

• Ahlström - Munksjö rights offering 2018

• VMP - Eezy exchange offer 2019

• Kojamo IPO 2018

• VMP (nyk. Eezy) IPO 2018

• Okmetic Oyj public tender offer 2017

• Rovio IPO 2017

• Technopolis rights offering 2016

• Citycon rights offering 2015

• Metsä Board rights offering 2015

• Pihlajalinna IPO 2015

• Nokia Alcatel Lucent share transfer 2015

• Kotipizza IPO 2015

• Nextstim IPO 2014

• Tikkurila IPO 2010

• Amer Sports rights offering 2009

• Sponda rights offerings 2007 and 2009

• Outokumpu Technology IPO (now Outotech, MetsoOutotec) 2006

• KappAhl IPO 2006

• Tallink IPO 2005

• Tekova IPO 2005

• Kemira Growhow IPO 2004

• TeliaSonera exchange offer 2003

• Sonera share offering 2001

Having followed both the energy sector and the capital markets for two decades, Laura can bring strong execution certainty to the constantly moving energy space. In cooperation with her clients, they make strategies for their successful projects and aims to always be two steps ahead in making the project structure flexible enough to stand the changes in the developing energy regulation. She assists new companies just starting their life as public companies, first maturing their corporate structures to meet the requirements of a public company and taking on the responsibilities of a listed company, and then supporting them through the actual listing process and their future status as stock listed companies.

Laura was seconded to the Nordic Investment Bank early in her career where she was involved in a large international project finance transaction. Working for a financial institution gave her a great opportunity to learn how financiers think and what are the building blocks of a successful infrastructure project. She was also seconded to Baltic Connector Oy, a government owned company which was responsible for the construction of the Balticconnector pipeline between Finland and Estonia and was very much involved in the opening of the Finnish gas markets. At Baltic Connector, Laura was responsible, as their chief legal officer, for the legal aspects of the construction of the pipeline and the related agreements.

University of Helsinki

Ph.D.

2013

University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Research Scholar

2003

University of Helsinki

Ll. Lic.

2002

University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan

LL.M.

2001

University of Helsinki

LL.M.

1999

Winner of 'Energy and Natural Resources' -category

Clients' Choice

2022

Winner of 'Energy and Natural Resources' -category

Clients' Choice

2021

Winner of 'Energy and Natural Resources' -category

Clients' Choice

2020