‘Very good and broad knowledge of various competition law matters, efficient and understand business, focus on solutions rather than creating problems.’

‘Jussi Nieminen is very knowledgeable and business minded. Understands the relevant issue quickly and quickly able to create solutions.’

‘The team is skilled. One can always count on the quality of the output.’

‘Jussi Nieminen is business-like, quickly understands complex issues and is pleasant to work with.’

‘The team has a good general understanding on the business practices, service is quick and advice is easy to understand even by non-lawyers.’

‘Jussi Nieminen is very service-minded and easy to approach. He is very helpful, understands the problem quickly and gives practical advice.’

‘The team is unique, they are very professional and they still know how to communicate directly and intelligibly.’

‘The team performance is really professional and efficient. The way they utilize internal task responsibilities together with system tools makes the process easy to follow and they take part from customer perspective. The processes and responsibilities are clearly defined also from customer’s side. The team includes high professional individuals led by highly skilled team leader. As a summary its really easy for customers to take care of it’s own part in the process. The customer doesn’t need to worry about the performance and progress at all within a case.’

‘Ilkka Leppihalme has a unique profession and experience what comes to competition law. At first he wants to know every single detail in a case ensuring the understanding and dynamics of the market overall practices that are connected to the case. After that he has a clear idea of the situation and he knows the right way to ‘dig into a case’. He also finds the right subjects to point out easily. That comes from the legal knowledge as well as from the key experience among subject.’

‘The team was very helpful and also very attentive to all our needs. They were great at explaining the local legislation and their relationship with the local authorities was essential to our case.’

‘Ilkka Leppihalme has strong knowledge of Finnish competition law and was able to give us the right recommendations to make sure we obtained clearance from the relevant authorities in a timely manner. He understood our needs very quickly and was providing clear and concise advice throughout the process.’

‘Ilkka Leppihalme is a powerhouse in the sector, in addition to being a fantastic personality.’

‘The firm has very thorough expertise in their field and they have the ability to use their expertise and experience to provide practical and hands-on advice which are very useful and often of critical importance. This is particularly true with a view to any matter involving the Finnish Competition Authority and Finnish courts.’

‘Ilkka Leppihalme provides sharp advice and shows a very good understanding of any market or business involved. Heidi Muukkonen also shows a high degree of expertise and is efficient to work with.’

‘Practical, clear and to the point advice resolving situations.’

‘Mikko Huimala is very experienced and knowledgeable. He finds the convincing arguments and has a solution oriented approach to all problems.’

‘Straightforward, solution-oriented and they have a practical approach – extremely professional.‘

‘Mikko Huimala is excellent, business minded, great communication skills and capable for quick understanding of the issue to be solved.’

‘I feel the Hannes Snellman competition law team, led by two outstanding individuals, is very business-oriented and committed to find suitable solutions for the customer in question. According to my experience, the team is sufficiently big to manage large-scale projects and, on the other hand, makes the customer feel welcomed to have pragmatic sparring aid in smaller questions.’

‘I’m glad to provide my view on Mikko Huimala: in my opinion what makes him to stand out from other competition law partners is his straightforward and pragmatic approach to complex matters. He is fast and is on the same page with the client from the beginning thinking about the goals and optimal way of achieving those. You are able to fully rely on Mikko that every task done is efficiently and the output is impeccable. This all makes him a valuable sparring partner in any competition law matters.’

‘Excellent hard (legal, both theory and practice) and soft (communication, presentation etc) skills. Seamless collaboration between practices. Always available when needed.’

‘We’re very pleased with Avance’s team. They are not the biggest in town but certainly innovative. I believe they were one of the first law firms in Finland to employ a high profile economist and this has added lots of value for us.’

‘We appreciate the concrete recommendations and practical advice we get from this strong team. Mikko Alkio is brilliant. Petri Rouvinen has been instrumental. Mikko Alkio and Petri Rouvinen have exceptional understanding of our industry and business environment.’

‘Reliable, adaptive, professional, easy-going. They serve well in many ways – not just legally but also in communication, advocacy and economical surveys.’

‘Mikko Alkio: excellent experience also from political side, good connections to decision makers and knowledge in many markets. Lasse Nordström: smart and innovative thinker and skilful writer’

‘Good team building.’

‘Nice to work with.’

‘In general very good customer orientated service. Borenius understands the client very well and is able to help the client quickly and according to needs. Collaboration is the key word at Borenius.’

‘Trustworthy and competent advice services. Honest and open attitude. Asko Lindqvist in competition law cases has done outstanding work with us.’

‘Borenius is very strong team, efficient and pragmatic. Flexible with billing to accommodate requirements from major corporation bureaucracy. Deep expertise in regulated industries. Senior lawyers are very hands-on.’

‘Ilkka Aalto-Setälä has in-depth knowledge of EU and competition law and is very solution oriented. Henriikka Piekkala is very analytical and we are very impressed with her.’

‘Borenius is very customer oriented and has excellent expertise in competition law.’

‘Excellent expertise in competition law and good availability of related services.’

‘Ilkka Aalto-Setälä has strong experience, he can came up with innovative and creative solutions, excellent and pragmatic lawyer.’

‘Solid knowledge of EU competition law, EU state aid law and EU public procurement law and how to apply them in practice.’

‘HPP is our trusted point of contact when it comes to cases in which Finland as a jurisdiction is involved. We fully rely on their extensive knowledge and experience in competition law.’

‘Anna Roubier provided us with clear and to-the-point advice in the past. She always gave us a comfort of swift and efficient cooperation.’

‘The team has very strong competences and individuals have complementary strengths making the team stronger than the sum of individuals. Impressive networks in Finland and internationally.’

‘Tuomas Saraste is certainly one of the best in this segment. His deep and broad knowledge of the scope of the practice combined with his extraordinary networks makes him superb head of operations. He has carefully picked the members of the team and nurtured them and enables great individual competence development.’

‘They are proactive, always give good advice and reminders. They are very competent and highly skilled. They have years of experience from competition law related matters. Very friendly also.’

‘Skilled and innovative experts who are also service-minded.’

‘Long-term cooperation and experience in the field. Innovative and skilful way of working.’

‘Very high professional performance.’

‘Great knowledge and capabilities.’

‘Satu-Anneli Kauranen was extremely reachable and easy-going. Her knowledge was impressive.’

‘All the team members in EU and competition practice are very service minded, hardworking and absolutely top professionals. The team works seamlessly together and the responsible partner is always on top of the things. One of the biggest strengths of the team is the fast response time and ability to get acquainted with things quickly.’

‘Satu-Anneli Kauranen and the whole team is easily approachable and easy to work with. Satu-Anneli is able to think of the best interests of the client from different perspectives. She has excellent knowledge of competition law.’

‘Satu-Anneli Kauranen is a very capable competition partner. Customer-oriented, responsive and pleasure to work with.’

‘The team has been extremely easy to work with. The lawyers are diligent in their work, the team takes the initiative in handling the competition processes and we can rely on the fact that all the necessary steps are taken in due time and correctly. They know how to present the case in the right way and what things the authorities look into in the competition processes. It is easy to rely on such an experienced and diligent team.’

‘Satu-Anneli Kauranen has an outstanding knowledge not just about the legislation but of the processes and authorities’ mindset when handling competition cases. She is convincing and experienced and it is easy to rely on her expertise.’

‘Our company has used Merilampi services for competition practice. Merilampi has top, up to date information in this area.’

‘The individuals we work with have deep understanding of both competition practice and the position of our company in the changing business environment.’

‘Päivi Tammilehto is very skilled and provides hands-on, practical advice, without making things too theoretical.’

‘Their prices are competitive. They are easy to approach and they have good expertise in competition law related issues. They get the job done and are willing to understand the customer’s field of business.’

‘Relevant knowledge and background in competition law matters.’

‘Partner Mika Oinonen has robust experience in advising in competition law matters. He is very fast at adapting into client’s area of business and provides sound and proactive advice.’

‘Flexibility and fast reaction times with capabilities to utilize their internal specialists for us and our stakeholders have really helped us with our business.

‘Capability to learn our and our customers needs and finding the best possible outcome for whatever issue with tight schedules have been important for us.’

‘Olli Hyvönen and Niina Rosenlund are very quick, pragmatic and experienced in competition law and investigations. They help out quickly and provide excellent services.’

‘They are quick, have a thorough knowledge and take a pragmatic approach.’

‘Good advice and quality work with short response times.’

‘Lotta Pohjanpalo is accessible, responsive, and sensible.’

‘Speed and clarity of response, and accessibility of the lead partner.’