Attorneys at law Ratiolex Ltd.

The firm

Attorneys at law Ratiolex Ltd. is one of the leading dispute resolution law firms in Finland. Ratiolex offers a full range of dispute resolution services for all businesses and industries covering inter alia all aspects of domestic litigation as well as domestic and international arbitration, both ad hoc and institutional. The firm focuses on high-end domestic and international dispute resolution services.

Since its establishment in 2005, Ratiolex has obtained a series of favourable arbitral awards in arbitration proceedings and judgments in state court litigations in, among other things, sale of goods, general corporate law, employment, construction and insolvency-related disputes.

The clientele of Ratiolex consists of mainly domestic SMEs, growing and internationalising companies and international corporations. Ratiolex has clients such as Finland’s leading building services consulting company, one of the leading international freight forwarding and logistics companies, one of the leading real estate agency companies, one of the leading international chemical industry companies and one of the leading music industry companies as well as several foreign companies in matters relating to Finland.

Areas of practice

Ratiolex has successfully represented its clients in litigation cases before Finnish courts and obtained several victorious court judgments.

For example, the firm successfully represented one of the world’s leading record and music industry companies as a respondent in a contract dispute in the District Court of Helsinki between June and November 2016, with judgment on 22 November 2016, whereby all client rebuttals were accepted in full and their legal costs were paid by the opponent party.

Ratiolex represented a real estate investment company in a cross-border insolvency matter in the District Court of Satakunta, where the value of the dispute exceeded €15m, in January and February 2017; the matter was closed by amicable negotiation in favour of the firm’s client.

Ratiolex represented a Finnish investment banking advisory company as a claimant in a financing arrangement agreement dispute in arbitration proceedings governed by the Arbitration Rules of the Finland Chamber of Commerce (FAI). The relevant questions related to the production of documents and an arbitral tribunal’s jurisdiction, in addition to the questions relating to the merits. In April 2017, the matter was closed by amicable negotiation in favour of the firm’s client as the opponent party paid the client’s claim relating to the merits.

Ratiolex successfully represented a Danish exchange-listed corporation’s Finnish subsidiary as a respondent in a civil dispute regarding sale of goods in the District Court of Espoo, between September 2015 and May 2017; the judgment on 4 May 2017 ensured the firm’s client’s rebuttals were accepted in full and the legal costs of the client were paid by the opponent party.

Since February 2017, the firm has represented an Austrian company in cross-border consultancy agreements disputes in the Helsinki Court of Appeals, where the value of the dispute exceeds €21m.