Mr Klaus Ilmonen > Hannes Snellman (Finland) > Helsinki, Finland > Lawyer Profile
Hannes Snellman (Finland) Offices
ETELÄESPLANADI 20
PO BOX 333
00130/00131 HELSINKI
Finland
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Mr Klaus Ilmonen
Work Department
Capital Markets
Position
Partner
Career
Klaus Ilmonen heads our Capital Markets practice in Helsinki. His practice includes equity capital markets and other corporate transactions involving public corporations. He has considerable experience from public takeovers, as well as from cross-border transactions. He also works with governance of public corporations.
Klaus has served on a consultative group for developing EU corporate finance regulation and has participated in drafting Finnish takeover regulation. He also teaches securities regulation at the University of Helsinki.
Klaus has qualified as an attorney in the State of New York, and practised U.S. securities law in the London office of the law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where he represented European issuers and underwriters in international securities offerings. He also worked on international M&A transactions.
Klaus has been a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School, he holds a LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School in New York and a doctorate in law from the University of Helsinki.
He has served as an officer with Finnish forces in Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has lectured on operational law in Finland and abroad.
Languages
English, Finnish, Swedish
Memberships
Member of the Consultative Working Group on Corporate Finance of the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA)
Member of the expert group on securities regulation of the Finnish Bar Association
Managing director of the Mannerheim Foundation
Education
Doctor of Laws, University of Helsinki, 2016
Harvard Law School, Visiting Researcher, 2011 – 2012 (Jan.)
Partner, Hannes Snellman, 2007
Associate, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, London, 1999 – 2002
LL.M. (Stone Scholar), Columbia University, 1999
Lawyer Rankings
Finland > Capital markets
(Hall of Fame)Specialising in complex capital markets work, Hannes Snellman (Finland)‘s department advises on IPOs, public tender offers, equity and bond offerings, private placements, share buy-backs, and other equity capital market transactions as well as regulatory matters. The team takes a multi-disciplinary approach and works closely together with general M&A, tax, competition and other sector experts. Head of the team Klaus Ilmonen has vast experience in public takeovers, as well as cross-border transactions, while Sonja Siggberg delivers the full range of advice on capital markets work.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- EU and competition
- Intellectual property
- Real estate and construction
- Tax
- TMT