Corporate Advisory
Ismo Hentula
Partner Ismo Hentula is our expert in corporate and contract law with over 25 years of experience as an attorney. He has broad experience in assisting both domestic and international clients in regulatory and contentious corporate and contract law matters.
Ismo counts the largest power production and energy services companies in Finland among his clients and his reputation as an expert in energy matters has led him to advising on some of the largest transactions in the energy sector in the last ten years. In addition, Ismo has advised local and national power production companies on joint ventures relating to the establishment and financing of power production facilities both in Finland and abroad.
Ismo is praised for his excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to find effective and practical solutions for clients.
Pia Tanskanen
Pia Tanskanen is the Managing Partner of Procopé & Hornborg. She is also an attorney and co-head of firm’s M&A practice. Pia specializes in mergers & acquisitions, private equity as well as corporate and contract law. She has extensive experience in multi-jurisdictional transactions and divestments involving industrial clients. Due to her extensive general counsel background Pia has in-depth knowledge in steel, energy and consumer goods business, just to name a few.
Pia is business-minded and solution-oriented, and she drives M&A and other projects efficiently, comprehensively and successfully.
Petri Kyllönen
Partner Petri Kyllönen is the head of Procopé & Hornborg’s M&A practice. He has extensive experience in managing domestic and cross-border transactions. Petri’s clients include private equity sponsors, domestic and international corporations and investors. Over his long career, Petri has accumulated deep expertise in many industries such as energy, information technology and industrial manufacturing, engineering and research and development.
Sonja Heinonen-Tilli
Senior Associate Sonja Heinonen-Tilli specializes in data protection and corporate advisory. She advises clients on a variety of data protection matters and corporate & contract law issues. In addition, she assists both domestic and international clients in various business fields in M&A, with an emphasis on data protection compliance issues and corporate & contract law.
Sonja joined Procopé & Hornborg as an Associate upon her graduation in 2021 after working at the firm as a Senior Trainee for several years. Sonja has gained experience from working in law firms and as a Secondee Data Protection Officer in a significant Finnish electricity company.
Anna Liinamaa
Counsel Anna Liinamaa advises clients in all privacy matters, such as data protection impact assessments and data protection audits, international data transfers, data sharing arrangements, and data processing agreements. Her main practice areas also include marketing law, general contract law, and mergers & acquisitions.
Anna has a practical approach to providing solutions that are timely, actionable and take into account the realities and goals of the business.
Iida Kangaspeska
Associate Iida Kangaspeska advises our clients on M&A as well as on corporate, contract and competition law related matters. Iida joined Procopé & Hornborg as a Senior Trainee in 2021 and was appointed as an Associate upon her graduation in 2022. Further, Iida has gained experience from an international consulting firm, Finnish business law firm and various other firms where she worked during her studies.
Lauri Koskenniemi
Associate Lauri Koskenniemi advises our clients on M&A projects along with issues relating to Corporate Law and Commercial contracts. Lauri joined the Procopé & Hornborg team in October 2022. Before starting his career at Procopé, Lauri acted as the Deputy Managing Director of a company organizing prep courses for the entrance exams for the Law Schools of Finnish Universities. Lauri also has a background in academic research. In addition, Lauri has worked as a professional composer – and musician – for varying media productions.
Saga Lamminsivu
Associate Saga Lamminsivu advises our clients in the areas of Corporate Advisory and Mergers & Acquisitions. Her expertise covers also corporate responsibility. Saga joined Procopé & Hornborg in January 2023. Before joining the firm, Saga gained experience from two law firms and an in-house legal department during her studies.
In addition to obtaining her law degree from the University of Helsinki, Saga has completed a Master of Science degree in Economics and Business Administration at Aalto University and studied at Melbourne Business School.
Team Services
Strategic legal solutions
We have extensive expertise in assisting boards and management of private and public companies in a wide range of corporate and governance matters.
Our services include:
- annual general meetings
- board and management liability
- conflicts of interest
- stock market rules and regulations
- share related incentive schemes
- financial assistance
- related party transactions
- corporate restructurings
- insolvency
- foundations and associations and their restructurings
- compliance programs and tailor-made governance rules.
Professional team
Our team regularly advises clients on the impact of legislative changes and helps them adapt their business models and operations to the changing regulatory environment. Our aim is to support companies in their regulatory environment in a way that enables them to conduct, develop, and grow their businesses in a consistent and considered manner.