Mr Erkko Korhonen > Borenius > Helsinki, Finland > Lawyer Profile

Borenius
ETELÄESPLANADI 2
00130 HELSINKI
Finland

Work Department

TMT

Position

Partner Erkko Korhonen advises clients on various technology transactions and arrangements, including ICT projects, outsourcing and cloud implementation. He also advises clients on issues relating to data economy as well as data protection and privacy in general (especially relating to GDPR compliance and e-privacy matters) in addition to e-commerce, telecommunications, media and marketing and consumer laws and practices. Erkko has been involved in several IP/ICT/data driven M&A transactions, including advising clients on complex carve-out and separation arrangements and transitional services.

Career

In 2015 and 2016, Erkko completed a five-month period as a Visiting Foreign Lawyer at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles.

Erkko co-heads the firm’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications team.

Languages

  • Finnish, English

Education

  • Bar admission, 2012, Helsinki, Finland
  • Master of Laws, 2008, University of Helsinki, Finland

Lawyer Rankings

Finland > TMT

The work of Borenius‘ IP and technology department encompasses tech transactions, health data and digital health solutions, regulatory and compliance and privacy matters. The group works with both public and private sector clients, such as technology growth companies, Finnish healthcare providers and financial sector clients. Erkko Korhonen and Samuli Simojoki jointly lead the team. Korhonen focuses on ICT and other technology transactions, such as outsourcing, technology deliveries and implementation; cloud computing contracting and software and application development projects while Simojoki comfortably handles venture capital transactions and technology deals.