Mr Mika Puurunen > Bird & Bird > Helsinki, Finland > Lawyer Profile
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00100 HELSINKI
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Mr Mika Puurunen
Work Department
Corporate; Capital Markets
Position
Mika Puurunen is a partner in Bird & Bird’s Corporate and M&A Group in Helsinki, where he advises his domestic and international clients on assignments related to capital markets, M&A and corporate law. He also advises his clients on regulatory matters concerning investment funds, investment firms and credit institutions.
Career
During his career he has worked with numerous public companies with assignments covering equity issues, IPOs, M&A, corporate governance and restructuring. In addition, Mika has advised many Nordic and international fund managers and investment firms on a variety of regulatory matters. His clients have described him as a business-minded and solution-oriented lawyer who is easy to work with.
Before joining Bird & Bird in 2019, Mika worked as a Senior Legal Counsel in the corporate finance department of one of the leading financial institutions in Finland, where he handled both clients’ capital markets transactions and various regulatory matters of the bank. In addition, for several years Mika worked at another leading Nordic law firm in Finland.
Languages
Finnish, English
Memberships
Member of the Finnish Bar Association
Member of the Industrial Lawyers’ Association
Education
FMVA-certificate, Corporate Finance Institute (CFI) 2019
LL.M., University of Lapland 2012
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.