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About

Provided by Sakari Halonen

Europe

Practice Areas

Technology & Communications; Commercial

Career

Sakari Halonen is a partner and co-head of Bird & Bird’s Nordic Tech & Comms group based in Helsinki. He predominantly advises clients in complex cross-border IT outsourcing transactions as well as in IT contracting in general. He also leads Bird & Bird’s Finnish Commercial group.

His ability to quickly get to the core of the problem, focus on the key issues, and find win-win solutions is the essential element valued by his clients. In addition to advising numerous global IT service providers, Sakari also acts for the customer-side in various industry sectors, including financial services, aviation, defence and automotive.

Sakari is also frequently engaged in M&A transactions, with a particular focus on technology-related transactions and the technology aspects of M&A in general. In addition, as an arbitrator, he is also involved in IT-related dispute resolution processes.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Finnish Bar Association

Member of the Finnish IT Law Association

Publications

Sakari authored, together with Bird & Bird’s of counsel Pekka Takki, the third edition of the leading Finnish textbook on 'IT law, IT Contracts – Practical Guide' (in Finnish 'IT-sopimukset – Käytännön käsikirja', Alma Talent, 2017), which is widely used as a textbook in law faculties of Finnish universities as well as other educational institutions.

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