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Mrs Laura Huomo
Work Department
Energy; Capital Markets
Position
Laura Huomo is a partner in our Real Estate & Infrastructure group in Helsinki, heading our Energy practice. In addition, she works with our Corporate and M&A Group with equity and debt related transactions.
Laura has 20 years of experience working for both Nordic and international law firms. She works with energy companies, municipalities, municipality owned companies and governments to navigate successful solutions within the energy transition. She assists her clients with regulatory issues, project structures, legal risk matrixes and energy related M&A activity.
Further, Laura advises companies with their initial public offerings, share issues and rights offerings as well as debt issues. To her great delight, energy companies are also looking into tapping into the capital markets as part of their strategic planning, and in those transactions, she can combine her two strongest areas, energy and capital markets expertise to the benefit of her clients.
Career
Having followed both the energy sector and the capital markets for two decades, Laura can bring strong execution certainty to the constantly moving energy space. In cooperation with her clients, they make strategies for their successful projects and aims to always be two steps ahead in making the project structure flexible enough to stand the changes in the developing energy regulation. She assists new companies just starting their life as public companies, first maturing their corporate structures to meet the requirements of a public company and taking on the responsibilities of a listed company, and then supporting them through the actual listing process and their future status as stock listed companies.
Laura was seconded to the Nordic Investment Bank early in her career where she was involved in a large international project finance transaction. Working for a financial institution gave her a great opportunity to learn how financiers think and what are the building blocks of a successful infrastructure project. She was also seconded to Baltic Connector Oy, a government owned company which was responsible for the construction of the Balticconnector pipeline between Finland and Estonia and was very much involved in the opening of the Finnish gas markets. At Baltic Connector, Laura was responsible, as their chief legal officer, for the legal aspects of the construction of the pipeline and the related agreements.
Languages
Finnish, English
Memberships
Member of the Finnish Bar Association
Member of the New York State Bar Association
Education
Ph.D., University of Helsinki 2013
Research Scholar, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2003
Ll. Lic., University of Helsinki 2002
LL.M., University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2001
LL.M., University of Helsinki 1999
Lawyer Rankings
Finland > Capital markets
The growing capital markets practice at Bird & Bird assists clients with a broad range of capital markets and public M&A transactions. Mika Puurunen leads the team and provides clients with the full range of advice on capital markets work including IPOs, main market rights issuances, complex regulatory restructurings, and convertible note offerings. Laura Huomo has in-depth knowledge of IPOs and various types of EMTN and GMTN programmes, often with an international context. Iina-Mari Supper was promoted to partner in April 2023.
Finland > Real estate and construction
Bird & Bird‘s wide array of real estate advice encompasses major transactions, large-scale development projects, financing work and development projects, acting for a client roster which includes multinationals, investors and municipalities. Jaakko Hietala heads up the real estate team and has in-depth experience in complex real estate and infrastructure mandates, corporate work and contentious matters. With expertise in matters involving fossil-based fuels and infrastructure elements as well as knowledge of the renewable energy space, Laura Huomo leads the energy and utilities team.