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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

Mäkitalo Rantanen & Co Ltd is ‘top quality on all levels’, and excels in the energy sector. In other work, it acted for the shareholders of IT services provider Appelsiini Finland on the company’s €15m sale to Elisa Corporation. Jani Rantanen is an experienced M&A lawyer.

Dispute resolution

Within Dispute resolution, tier 4

Mäkitalo Rantanen & Co Ltd is acting for Finnish urban energy company Vantaan Energia in a €4.8m compensation claim as well as handling a dispute for construction group Lemminkäinen, showcasing the firm’s expertise in both sectors. Managing partner Antti Palmujoki and Annika Kiviharju lead the practice.

Real estate and construction

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

The work of Juha Mäkitalo and his team at Mäkitalo Rantanen & Co Ltd is ‘excellently executed’. The group excels in construction law advice, and has been acting for Lahti Energia on the construction of a €157m waste gasification plant in Lahti. It also regularly advises the real estate unit of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

TMT

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

Technology specialist Juha Taipale’s departure from Mäkitalo Rantanen & Co Ltd after just one year at the firm was a blow to the practice, but the group is now led by Jani Rantanen. Recent work includes advising Lahti Energia on the licensing and development of an operational software system for the new Lahti power plant.

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Construction 2012

Introduction Robert S Peckar Peckar & Abramson, PC 3

- Mäkitalo Rantanen & Co Ltd

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The European Commission proposes stringent rules for high-frequency traders

The European Commission has recently introduced two important regulatory packages that seek to respond to the challenges posed by rapidly developing trading technologies, particularly so-called high frequency trading. If the new regulations are adopted as drafted, considerable changes are in store for both those entities that engage in high frequency trading and the trading venues providing them access to the market.

- Krogerus
Implications of competition law on information exchange - New book published in Finland

Lotta Uusitalo, Anne Petäjäniemi-Björklund and Leea Salminen, Attorneys at Law of Procopé & Hornborg, have written a book on the implications of competition law on information exchange.

- Procopé & Hornborg
New Waste Act to enter into force on May 1, 2012 in Finland

The EC waste directive (2008/98/EC) will be implemented in Finland by the new Finnish Waste Act, which will enter into force on May 1, 2012.

- Procopé & Hornborg
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