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Mr Juha Koponen

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Work Department

Capital Markets

Position

Partner Juha Koponen is a dual-qualified (Finland and New York) transactional lawyer who focuses his practice on capital markets, M&A and private equity transactions. He has advised issuers and underwriters on public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, including IPOs, high-yield debt offerings, convertible debt issuances and rights offerings. He has also advised bidders and target companies on tender offers.
Juha has significant experience in public and private mergers and acquisitions, especially in the cross-border context. He has also advised on many venture capital investments.
Juha heads the firm’s Capital Markets team and the New York office.

Career

Before joining Borenius, Juha was a Partner at Castrén & Snellman. Prior to this he worked for Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in New York and London and for Nokia.

Languages

Finnish, English, Swedish

Memberships

American Bar Association; International Bar Association; American Bar Foundation (International Fellow).

Education

LLM, 2001, Columbia University School of Law (Fulbright Scholar); Master of Laws, 1999, University of Turku, M.Sc. (Econ) 1998; Turku School of Economics and Business Administration

Lawyer Rankings

Finland > Capital markets

(Hall of Fame)

Juha Koponen  – Borenius

Praised by clients for its ‘great mix of market and regulatory competencies’, Borenius‘ capital markets and public M&A department advises clients on significant tender offers, major financing agreements, debt capital markets work, bank funding issues and IPOs. As head of the team, Juha Koponen is a key name for complex international securities offerings and tender offers, as well as public and private mergers and acquisitions, especially those with a cross-border element. Deputy head of the team Mia Mokkila specialises in listed company advisory and public M&A work, handling listed company transactions which involve complex securities and corporate law aspects, such as public tender offers and mergers.

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