Procopé & Hornborg

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Finland

Competition and Procurement

Asta Siponen

Asta Siponen

Partner Asta Siponen is the head of our Dispute Resolution practice. She has extensive expertise in both civil court proceedings and arbitration matters. Asta is also an expert in negotiations and mediation with a view of preventing conflicts before escalation to courts. Asta is also experienced in administrative proceedings and has also represented clients in criminal proceedings particularly related to corporate investigations. Asta has advised clients in competition law matters, particularly related to public and private enforcement, notably in public procurement and damages actions. Asta is also an expert in land use matters, building and real estate. Asta is an experienced and trusted advisor in relation to demanding commercial contracts and eager to learn something new every day.
Lotta Uusitalo

Lotta Uusitalo

Partner Lotta Uusitalo is the head of our Competition & Procurement practice. Lotta routinely advises clients in all aspects of competition law: merger control, cartel investigations, behavioral antitrust matters, abuse of dominance, vertical restrictions and damages actions. Lotta has significant experience in advising clients in co-operation with competitors and exchange of information, particularly for trade associations and on the energy & infra sector. Lotta gives advise also in state aid and public procurement matters. In addition, Lotta has significant general commercial experience particularly from automotive sector. She is also the head of our Corporate Responsibility & Sutainable Law practice and the team leader of our internal sustainability and green transition team. Lotta delivers timely, practical and commercial legal advice and has the understanding of the client’s business as a priority. Lotta is interested in legal design and has developed legal tech for compliance purposes.

Team Services

Our experienced team advises on all aspects of competition and public procurement law across all sectors of industry, commerce, and services. We advise domestic and international clients on merger control and other M&A-related matters, public and private antitrust enforcement, state aid, competitive neutrality, and public procurement.

Our expertise covers both domestic and EU competition law including cartel investigations and any horizontal competition matters such as information exchange and other cooperation between competitors. We assist our clients in all affairs with the competition authority. Our team has solid experience in competition law litigation cases, such as competition damages matters and administrative legal proceedings in both competition infringement cases and public procurement matters.

We are also experienced in drafting distribution agreements, setting up distribution channels, and advising on vertical competition restrictions.

We prepare competition compliance policies for our clients and educate their personnel accordingly. We also assist our clients in internal audits related to competition law. Our team has created a dawn raid application to support companies in the event of a dawn raid by antitrust authorities.

Our clientele consists of domestic, international, private and listed companies alongside trade associations and public entities.