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Mäkitalo Rantanen & Co Ltd

ETELÄESPLANADI 18, 00130 HELSINKI, FINLAND

Tel:: Work +358 9 6844 410
Fax:: Fax +358 9 6844 4141

Web:: www.makitalo.fi
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What we say about the firm's legal practice in Finland

Corporate and M&A

Raising its profile is Mäkitalo Rantanen & Co Ltd, a mid-market firm which has ‘extraordinary in-depth knowledge of the energy industry in Finland’. In particular, Juha Mäkitalo has ‘profound knowledge’, while Jani Rantanen has impressive drafting and interpersonal skills when negotiating. General corporate work includes acting for the operative management of Sisu Auto in a MBO of the entire share capital.

Dispute resolution

Within Dispute resolution , tier 4

The disputes team at Mäkitalo Rantanen & Co Ltd is ‘extremely flexible’, while Antti Palmujoki is a ‘true business-orientated professional’. The firm was substantially boosted by the hire of TMT specialist and litigator Juha Taipale and litigator Annika Kiviharju from Krogerus.

Real estate and construction

Within Real estate and construction, Mäkitalo Rantanen & Co Ltd is a third tier firm,

Niche firm Mäkitalo Rantanen & Co Ltd is focused on construction and real estate development, advising on complex projects such as a €157m waste gasification power plant construction, acting for Lahti Energia. The firm is regular advisor to the real estate unit of Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Juha Mäkitalo ‘has an extremely good understanding of the real estate and construction business’ and a ‘statesmanlike presence’.

TMT

Within TMT , Mäkitalo Rantanen & Co Ltd is a third tier firm,

Mäkitalo Rantanen & Co Ltd impresses following the hire of admired partner Juha Taipale and two colleagues from top-tier firm Krogerus. The firm is advising a major ICT service provider in an ICC arbitration in Helsinki concerning a substantial liability and compensation claim.

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Construction 2012

Introduction Robert S Peckar Peckar & Abramson, PC 3

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Legal Developments in Finland

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Construction 2012

Introduction Robert S Peckar Peckar & Abramson, PC 3

- Mäkitalo Rantanen & Co Ltd
Use of Legal Tools in Creating an Open Source Project or Business Model

Written by Martin von Willebrand

- HH Partners, Attorneys-at-Law, Ltd
Court ruling on the Finnish CFC legislation

The Finnish CFC legislation implies that a Finnish company may be subject to income tax for its share of the profit of a CFC regardless of whether these profits are distributed by the CFC to its shareholders or not. A CFC is defined as a foreign corporation owned and controlled by a Finnish tax resident that pays income tax in its domicile at a rate less than 60% of the Finnish corporate income tax rate.

- Attorneys at law Borenius Ltd
Cross-border merger case to ECJ

The Finnish Supreme Administrative Court decided on 7 March 2011 (KHO 2011:21) to request for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) concerning the question whether a Finnish parent company may deduct the final tax losses of its Swedish subsidiary after a cross-border merger.

- Attorneys at law Borenius Ltd
The European Commission proposes a system of common consolidated corporate tax base

The European Commission presented on 16 March 2011 a proposal that calls for a common system for calculating the tax base of business operating in the EU. At the moment, a company active within the whole EU can be forced to comply with up to 27 different national tax systems. The new Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) seeks to reduce the administrative burden, compliance costs and legal uncertainties by creating a "one-stop-shop" system where the profits and losses across the EU could be consolidated.

- Attorneys at law Borenius Ltd
Owner's obligations at acceptance inspection clarified by the Helsinki Appellate Court

By its decision 18 February 2011 (S09/3055) the Helsinki Appellate Court confirmed that an owner is entitled to rely on the quality assurance of a well-known construction company at an acceptance inspection. The court held that the owner is entitled to demand rectification of construction defects and to claim damages for deficiencies discovered during the guarantee period.

- Attorneys at law Borenius Ltd
Tax-neutral exchange of shares case to ECJ

The Finnish Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) decided on 31 January 2011 (KHO:2011:10) to ask for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) concerning the question whether a tax-neutral share exchange can be completed between a company residing in an EU country and a company residing in the European Economic Area (EEA) (such as Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein).

- Attorneys at law Borenius Ltd
ENVIRONMENTAL PERMIT GUARANTEES MAY ALSO BE GRANTED BY FOREIGN EUBASED FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

In a unanimous yearbook decision the Finnish Supreme Administrative Court ruled that guarantee insurance is an adequate environmental permit security. Further, the Court, by referring to the free movement of financial services within the EU, stated that a party in an arrangement for security regarding adequate and proper security may be a financial institution based in another EU-country.

- Attorneys at law Borenius Ltd
CHANGE OF GENERATION – MINOR CONTINUING THE BUSINESS

The Supreme Administrative Court has issued on 5 January 2011 a ruling concerning the change of generation relief of gift taxation (KHO 2011:1). In its ruling the SAC stated that the preconditions for the tax relief were not fulfilled since the donee was a minor and thus could not act as a board member in the company’s board of directors as provided for in Chapter 6 Section 10 of the Finnish Companies Act.

- Attorneys at law Borenius Ltd
Public Procurement 2011

A practical cross-border insight into public procurement

- Attorneys at law Borenius Ltd