Dr Anna Haapanen > Dittmar & Indrenius > Helsinki, Finland > Lawyer Profile
Dittmar & Indrenius Offices
POHJOISESPLANADI 25 A
00100 HELSINKI
Finland
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Dr Anna Haapanen
Work Department
Technology & Outsourcing; Intellectual Property
Position
Focus on technology transactions, complex IP and IT intensive contracts and negotiations as well as intellectual property licensing with a special expertise in free and open source software.
Partner Anna Haapanen is recognized as one of the leading international technology lawyers with international education and work experience both cross border and overseas and has practiced law in Finland, Sweden and the United States. She is dual-licensed attorney admitted to both the Finnish Bar and the New York Bar. She has earned Doctor of Laws degree in intellectual property law and advises clients with both non-contentious and contentious assignments.
Career
Prior to joining D&I, Anna Haapanen worked at Roschier Attorneys in Helsinki and Stockholm, at Software Freedom Law Center in New York and as in-house counsel at Nokia and Hantro as well as held visiting lawyer positions at Supercell, Accenture, Nokia and Comptel.
Anna Haapanen is President of the International Federation of Computer Law Associations (IFCLA), representative of Finland at International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw) and former Chairman of the Finnish IT Law Association. She is a member of the Delegation of the Finnish Bar Association, the highest decision-making body of the Finnish Bar Association.
Languages
Finnish, English and Swedish
Memberships
Finnish Bar Association, New York Bar Association
Education
University of Helsinki, Doctor of Laws (LL.D., 2017)
Stanford University, Visiting Senior Scholar (2015)
Hanken Svenska handelhögskolan (MSc. (Economics and Business Administration, 2013)
Columbia University (LL.M., 2009), Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
University of Helsinki (LL.M., 2004)
Lawyer Rankings
Finland > TMT
(Leading individuals)The TMT practice at Dittmar & Indrenius handles a wide range of work, from regulatory to IP, technology and data law – the firm has recently been involved in court proceedings relating to data protection before the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Supreme Administrative Court. Anna Haapanen delivers the full range of advice on technology mandates, both contentious and non-contentious. Jukka Lång is an experienced ICT lawyer and represents clients relating to data protection and cyber security, while Juli Mansnérus is well-verse in strategic regulatory law and all types of technology litigations and transactions. Eila El Asry is a name to note in the technology and data assets field.
Finland > Intellectual property
Dittmar & Indrenius advises on various aspects of technology intensive IP rights, such as patents and copyrights, especially in connection with technology transactions, and provides legal support on contracts, licensing arrangements related to the identification and protection of IP assets, and IP enforcement issues. The department is headed up by Anna Haapanen, Iiris Kivikari and Juli Mansnérus, who also heads up the life sciences and healthcare practice.