Ms Helena Viita > Roschier > Helsinki, Finland > Lawyer Profile

Roschier‘s finance and restructuring team is reputed for its depth of experience in lending and debt capital markets transactional work and financial restructurings. The group is engaged by banks active in the Nordics, large Nordic corporates, and international and Nordic private equity, real estate, infrastructure and private debt investors. Areas of expertise include project financing transactions in relation to the energy sector, especially green energy project work, which is co-head Jonne Järvi‘s specialty. Co-head Johannes Ahti advises on event-driven financings, refinancing issues, and financial restructurings with a focus on leveraged, corporate, real estate, and infrastructure finance mandates, and ‘excels within his areas of expertise’. Helena Viita focuses on finance and debt capital markets work, including acquisition finance transactions and securitisation matters.

Praised by clients as the ‘best team in Finland’ for its breadth of capital markets expertise, Roschier‘s equity capital markets, finance and restructuring department advises on the structuring and execution of a wide range of complex equity and debt capital markets deals and public M&A transactions. Highly experienced co-head Antti Ihamuotila is a key name for international capital market transactions, while co-head Helena Viita covers a wide variety of finance and debt capital markets work, and co-head Petri Avikainen is specialised in equity capital markets matters and public M&A. Jaakko Laitinen and Katri Piiparinen are also key names to note.