Procopé & Hornborg Attorneys Ltd

Managing Partner: Pia Tanskanen

Number of partners: 7

Number of lawyers: 18

Languages: English, Finnish, Swedish, German and French

Procopé & Hornborg Attorneys Ltd (P&H) provides high quality business law services in Finland with first-class efficiency and on a no-nonsense basis. The firm pursues to resolve clients’ legal challenges by offering individualised and proactive services as required by each case.

• Commercial Contracts
• Competition & Procurement
• Corporate Advisory
• Corporate Responsibility & Sustainable Law
• Data Protection & Technology
• Dispute Resolution
• Employment
• Enegry & Infra
• Finance
• Insurance
• Shipping & Logistics
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private

Competition & Procurement:

P&H’s Competition & Procurement team has a long domestic and EU level experience and broad knowledge in various industry sectors, such as automotive, railway, energy and retail. The team advises companies and public entities on all aspects of competition law, including merger control, cartel investigations, assessments of dominant position and its abuse, information exchange between competitors, joint ventures and competition law related litigations. Additionally, P&H’s experts regularly assist clients in matters concerning all areas and phases related to state aid and public procurement.

Contact: Lotta Uusitalo

Tel: +358 40 8338 008

Email: [email protected]

Energy & Infra:

P&H regularly advises companies operating in the energy and mining sector. The team has exceptional and extensive experience relating to power production and electricity market questions and their expertise covers all segments of the energy sector, including hydropower, nuclear power, LNG and CHP, along with more recent recourses developed for tackling challenges relating to climate change, such as wind and solar power.

Contact: Ismo Hentula, Lotta Uusitalo

Tel: +358 40 8338 002, +358 40 8338 008

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Corporate Advisory:

P&H offers high-quality legal expertise in matters of contract and commercial law. The team assists clients in various matters relating to corporate law, commercial agreements, financing, capital markets and environmental liability. P&H’s representative also regularly acts as chairman of the shareholders’ meetings for listed and large privately held companies.

Contact: Ismo Hentula

Tel: +358 40 8338 002

Email: [email protected]

Data Protection & Technology:

The team provides legal expertise in matters relating to data protection, technology and intellectual property rights, such as trademark matters. Services include, for example, carrying out compliance reviews, privacy audits and data protection impact assessments and establishing effective licensing arrangements as well as preparing practical R&D and cooperation agreements. Also advising on data protection roles, balancing tests and cross-border data transfers, and assisting in responding to data security incidents.

Contact: Anna Liinamaa

Tel: +358 40 7292 979

Email: [email protected]

Dispute Resolution:

P&H’s dispute resolution team advises clients in both domestic and international legal disputes in different courts and in arbitration. The team has extensive experience of handling large and complex matters across a range of practice areas, such as competition, corporate and administrative law, financing, information technology, construction, real estate, environment, and IPR as well as insurance, transport and logistics matters. The team finds the best solutions for avoiding and resolving disputes, including through mediation. The team also supports clients with insolvency and restructuring matters.

Contact: Asta Siponen, Ulla von Weissenberg

Tel: +358 50 0407 446, +358 40 8205 732

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Employment:

P&H’s employment law team provides employment advice in all matters across the employment law spectrum. The team has strong experience in supporting employers in HRM issues with, e.g. terms of employment, employment contracts, agreement drafting, cooperation negotiations and proceedings, collective agreements, national and cross-border restructurings, terminations of employment and dispute handling.

Contact: Asta Siponen

Tel: +358 50 0407 446

Email: [email protected]

Finance:

P&H’s specialists combine the latest methods and solutions with decades of experience from the financial market. Covering all finance sectors, including international syndicated loans, bond issues, convertible bonds, other hybrid loans and structured finance products, private placements, and group financing. P&H also has a long experience in providing assistance with restructuring of distresses companies and in insolvency.

Contact: Jouko Markkanen

Tel: +358 40 8441 613

Email: [email protected]

Insurance:

The team advises clients in regulatory insurance matters, such as in matters related to insurance distribution and compliance, as well as in contentious matters, such as in complex coverage and liability disputes. The team has extensive experience on liability insurance (e.g. professional liability and D&O), marine insurance and transport insurance matters.

Contact: Ulla von Weissenberg

Tel: +358 40 8205 732

Email: [email protected]

Shipping & Logistics:

The team covers all areas of shipping, transport, and logistics – from regulatory matters to drafting of comprehensive logistics frame agreements and from cargo claims to assistance in relation of collisions, charter parties, newbuilding contracts and related issues. Expertise from the international trade include drafting of various type of purchase and project agreements with special knowledge from the maritime and aviation sector, and related international and domestic disputes.

Contact: Ulla von Weissenberg

Tel: +358 40 8205 732

Email: [email protected]

M&A:

P&H’s M&A team provides legal advice across the wide spectrum of transactions such as in private M&A, private equity and venture capital, real estate and joint ventures. The team captures the essential in each transaction and manages deals with their broader context constantly in mind. The approach is always solution-oriented and firmly led by the clients’ business objectives. The team likes to work hands-on with each project and they always aim at generating practical yet legal and commercially sound solutions for their clients.

Contact: Petri Kyllönen, Pia Tanskanen

Tel: +358 40 0757 732, +358 50 3143 143

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Private:

P&H provides individual services to private persons, families, and their companies. The firm’s lawyers are experienced in family and estate law, private wealth management, strategic planning, tax law, real estate, and housing transactions law, as well as in associations and foundations law.

Contact: Harriet Rydberg

Tel: +358 50 5544 565

Email: [email protected]