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Helsinki, Finland+11 other locations
- Rovaniemi, Finland
- Lappeenranta, Finland
- Oulu, Finland
- Jyväskylä, Finland
- Turku, Finland
- Tampere, Finland
- Vaasa, Finland
- Lahti, Finland
- Seinäjoki, Finland
- Kuopio, Finland
- Pori, Finland
Eeva Rakkolainen
Siiri Luoma; Jannica Boucht
‘We have been pleased with the quality of the services provided to us on regulatory and compliance matters.’
‘The individuals in the team are all a pleasure to work with and have a high level of competence.’
‘KPMG has been able to deliver what has been agreed and even more. Very proactive attitude towards the needs of the business.’
‘Siiri Luoma has been performing professionally and with high integrity throughout our co-operation. A true team player.’
Mandatum Group
Sampo Plc
OP Financial Group
Savings Banks Group
Aaland Mutual Insurance Company
Garantia Insurance Company Ltd
Taaleri Oyj, Taaleri Energia Funds, Taaleri Pääomarahastot Oy
Index Helsinki Osakeyhtiö
Grit Fund Management Company Ltd
Ethos Capital Oy
Gf Money Oy
Epassi Group Oy
Fennia life insurance company Ltd
Mika Honkanen
Power Finland Oy
Oy Vaasan Ammattikorkeakoulu – Vasa yrkeshögskola Ab
Telinekataja Oy
Juha Koivula; Kai Soini
‘KPMG’s commercial team with legal affairs work well together. They have good knowledge about renewable markets to reach economically good and acceptable results.’
‘I think the services we have received from KPMG Law in Finland have been very good and the service is precise and they understand the customers needs.’
‘Kai Soini – legal work combined with economical aspects.’
Cooperative Tradeka
Lumon Group
Finsilva Oyj
Dasos Capital
Tornator Oyj
Wärtsilä Plc
Fazer Group
Hartela Oy
Pohjola Rakennus Group
Novart Oy
Lujatalo Oy
Kojamo Oyj
Peab Oy
A-Lehdet Oy
EKE-Finance Oy
Wolt Enterprises Oy
Multitude SE
Cargotec Plc
Witted Megacorp Plc
Tamtron Plc
Svea Bank AB, Finnish branch
Y-Säätiö
Ilkka Vuorenmaa
‘The team works efficiently. The company has a lot of excellent experts in various fields, which means that various questions and problems can be answered quickly and suggestions are made for operating models.’
‘We have received excellent assistance in the area of contract law and immaterial rights. In immaterial rights, they have considerably helped all the organisations similar to us. This helps us all and we are all very grateful.’
‘The team is able to think about the big picture and suggest useful solutions to the customer that are more than the customer has been able to ask for.’
‘The people combine friendliness, approachability and solid expertise.’
Snellman Group and its companies
Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy/VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.
X-WK Logistics Oy Ab
Radientum Oy
Unifund Jyväskylä Oy, University of Jyväskylä
Tampereen Aluetaksi Oy
Dolea Oy
Movax Oy
CSC-Tieteen tietotekniikan keskus Oy
Suomen Sydänliitto ry, Finlands Hjärtförbund rf
Edly Helsinki Oy
ME-Designs Oy (Visual Monkeys)
Fosto Oy
Molok Oy
Espoon seudun koulutuskuntayhtymä Omnia (Omnia, Espoo association of educational municipalities)
TAYS Sydänsairaala Oy
Pyynikin Brewing Oy
Vitunleija Oy
Iljan Isännöintikeskus Oy
Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu Oy (Laurea university of applied sciences)
Comeback Center Oy
Kai Soini; Jaska Ikäheimonen
Finsilva Oyj
Dasos Capital
Tornator Oyj
Hiedanrannan Kehitys Oy
Novart Oy
Hartela Länsi-Suomi Oy
Bluet Oy Ltd
Peab Oy
Pohjola Rakennus Group PRG Oy
EKE-Finance Oy
EKE-Rakennus Oy
Lujatalo Oy
Kojamo Oyj
Hengitysliitto ry
Hangon Läntinen Laituri Oy
Lakea Oy
Wihanto Group Oy
Y-Säätiö
Aura Rakennus Oy
City of Turku
Turun Satama Oy
TVT Asunnot Oy
Blue Industry Park Oy
City of Imatra
Turun Osuuskauppa
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KPMG Law, Finland — currently app. 100 lawyers in Helsinki, Turku, Tampere, Oulu, Kuopio, Lappeenranta, Lahti, Pori, Seinäjoki, Vaasa, Jyväskylä, Pori and Rovaniemi.
KPMGLaw, a globally connected legal services platform, — currently spanning 84 jurisdictions, with over 3,400 lawyers with the deep expertise and experience required to advise you on domestic and international laws and to navigate the opportunities and challenges of cross-border commerce, trade, investment and the management of global value chains in an increasingly complex world.
Specialist global legal services — providing you with innovative and integrated solutions by combining our global platform, our specialist legal expertise, the power of the broader KPMG organization, access to market leading enterprise and legal technology and our global experience structuring and managing innovative delivery models.
Legal transformation and technology — with a mindset of innovation, a global team with experience and real credentials and the power of KPMG’s relationships with leading technology providers we can work with you to modernize, simplify and digitize your legal function.
In local, regional and global trading environments which are increasingly characterized by change and unpredictability — at both scale and at speed — KPMG Law wants to be your trusted local & global legal advisor.
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Corporate Advisory, Mergers & Acquisitions; Business Reorganization; Incentives, Owner Strategic Tax Planning; Head of Legal Services Finland | Ari Engblom | ari.engblom@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3614 |
Corporate Advisory, Real Estate & Construction; Mergers & Acquistions; Head of Corporate & Commercial Law | Kai Soini | kai.soini@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3273 |
Public Sector, Head of Infra, Government & Healthcare Cluster at KPMG Finland | Harri Metso | harri.metso@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3239 |
Public Sector, Head of Tax & Legal Government | Annukka Mannerkoski | annukka.mannerkoski@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3259 |
Mergers & Acquisitions; Real Estate; Head of M&A Legal Services | Juha Koivula | juha.koivula@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3926 |
Compliance; Investigations; Head of Legal Compliance | Antti Aalto | antti.aalto@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3735 |
Head of Financial Sector Legal Services, Head of Asset Management at KPMG Finland | Eeva Rakkolainen | eeva.rakkolainen@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3533 |
Corporate Advisory; Enterprise, Head of Enterprise Legal Services; Head of Tax & Legal Enterprise at Uusimaa | Juho Lindvall | juho.lindvall@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3100 |
Capital markets; Head of Capital Markets Desk, Audit & Assurance Finland | Juha Karttunen | juha.karttunen@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3583 |
Global Entity Management; Cross Border Corporate Advisory; Merger & Acquisitions | Joonas Aho | joonas.aho@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3377 |
Financial Services; Enterprise, Merger & Aqcuisitions; Head of Tax & Legal Services in Ostrobothnia Finland | Jannica Boucht | jannica.boucht@kpmg.fi | + 358 20 76 3848 |
Commercial Litigation; Dispute Resolution; Enterprise; Head of Eastern Region Tax & Legal Services | Veli Suortamo | veli.suortamo@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3057 |
Employment Law | Mika Honkanen | mika.honkanen@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3984 |
Product Liability, Commercial Law | Mikko Koivula | mikko.koivula@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3650 |
Intellectual Property; Head of IPR Law Team | Ilkka Vuorenmaa | ilkka.vuorenmaa@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3314 |
Commercial Law; Head of Commercial Law Team | Julia Ahlfors | julia.ahlfors@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3101 |
Tax; International Tax | Jussi Järvinen | jussi.jarvinen@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3077 |
Tax Compliance; Tax Technology & Transformation | Erkki Tiitta | erkki.tiitta@kpmg.fi | + 358 20 760 3814 |
Tax; Head of Transfer Pricing | Sanna Laaksonen | sanna.laaksonen@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3417 |
VAT; Head of Indirect Tax at KPMG Finland | Lassi Ahopelto | lassi.ahopelto@kpmg.fi | + 358 20 760 3631 |
Mergers & Acquisitions, Tax | Jani Karjalainen | jani.karjalainen@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3474 |
Tax; International Tax | Markku Lepistö | markku.lepisto@kpmg.fi | + 358 20 760 3390 |
Insolvency and Corporate Recovery, Enterprise; Head of Pori Office at KPMG Finland; head of Insolvency & Corporate Recovery Team | Tero Piisi | tero.piisi@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3475 |
Real Estate & Construction; Head of Real Estate & Construction Law Team | Jaska Ikäheimonen | jaska.ikaheimonen@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3016 |
Incentives; Employee Remuneration; Expatriate Tax | Paula Holmström | paula.holmstrom@kpmg.ri | + 358 20 760 3710 |
Public Sector; Corporate Advisory | Anu Kangasniemi | anu.kangasniemi@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3483 |
Public Procurement; State Aid; Competition Law | Jan Ljungman | jan.ljungman@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3220 |
Contract Law; Public Sector; Corporate Advisory | Sanna Sipilä | sanna.sipila@kpmg.fi | + 358 20 760 3781 |
Data, Digital and Technoloty | Kira Ahveninen-Kuha | kira.ahveninen-kuha@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3799 |
Enterprise; Corporate Advisory; Head of Enterprise at KPMG Finland | Kirsi Adamsson | kirsi.adamsson@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3060 |
Enterprise, Corporate Advisory | Risto Heinänen | risto.heinanen@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3764 |
Incentives, Employment Remuneration; Corporate Advisory | Timo Luukkonen | timo.luukkonen@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3582 |
Incentives, Non-profit; Enterprise; Head of Western Region Tax & Legal Services | Johanna Fagervik | johanna.fagervik@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3939 |
Family Office & Private Client, Law; Enterprise; Head of Central Region Tax & Legal Services | Arto Kaleva | arto.kaleva@kpmg.fi | +358 20 760 3227 |
Legal Tech | Henna Tolvanen | henna.tolvanen@kpmg.fi | +358 20 767 3376 |
Helsinki, Finland+11 other locations
Helsinki, Finland+11 other locations
Helsinki, Finland+11 other locations
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KPMG Finland’s gender balance was 54/46 female/male (January 2022) and the distribution has remained the same for several years. In January 2022, KPMG had 41 employees with non-Finnish citizenship (26 nationalities). There are around 3 % of employees who are not native Finnish speakers. Within KPMG Finland we evaluate annually the state of Inclusion and Diversity throughout employee surveys, statistics analysis and review of people related processes. Based on the evaluation we choose focus areas that we want to emphasize on in order to improve and promote inclusion and diversity within our organization and work community. During 2020-2021 we have set up an Inclusion & Diversity-steering group, created internal I&D-pages and started our strategic I&D-work for FY22. The strategic focus areas for the year 2022-2023 are; equal opportunities, we strive to increase the culture of inclusion, the diversity of the work community, and the psychological safety of our people.
Priorities and actions to be taken in years 2022-2023 are supporting and enhancing inclusion with integrating diversity perspectives into personnel processes and investing to internal communication in Finnish and English. Also equal opportunities for career development such as development of family-friendly practices in connection with the reform of the Family Leave Act., raising awareness and understanding in leadership and interaction, career development support and anonymous recruitment pilot will be the focus areas.
KPMG’s global web site:
https://home.kpmg.com/xx/en/home/about/inclusion-and-diversity-new.html
CLIENT: Cloudia Oy
COMPANY/FIRM: KPMG Oy Ab
TESTIMONIAL: KPMG Finland advised the shareholders of Cloudia Oy in an international auction sale of the company to Norwegian Mercell Holding ASA, as a result of which Cloudia became part of the Mercell group. Cloudia is the clear market leader in the source-to-contract market for public sector procurement in Finland, with more than 250,000 users and 1.1 million customer contracts on its platform. The company serves more than 500 public and private organizations, including 95 of Finland’s 100 largest municipalities and 10 of the largest cities.
KPMG Finland acted as both the financial and legal advisor to the shareholders of Cloudia. In addition to assisting in the bidding and negotiation processes, KPMG Finland also drafted the deal documentation and coordinated the due diligence from the sell side.
CLIENT: Admescope Oy
COMPANY/FIRM: KPMG Oy Ab
TESTIMONIAL: KPMG Finland advised the shareholders of Admescope Oy in an international auction sale of the company to Dutch MercachemSyncom, the leading mid-sized European drug-discovery contract research organization. The acquisition gives MercachemSyncom significantly expanded capabilities for tailor-made in vitro and in vivo ADME-Tox studies for pre-clinical and early clinical R&D projects and seamless integration with the existing medicinal, synthetic and development chemistry capabilities of MercachemSyncom. Admescope brings world-class expertise in drug metabolism, drug interactions, pharmacokinetics and quantitative bioanalysis.
KPMG Finland acted as the sole legal advisor to the shareholders of Admescope from the very beginning of the transaction process all the way to the closing. KPMG Finland i.a. advised in reviewing the confidentiality agreements, coordinating the due diligence process as well as drafted and negotiated the deal documentation.
CLIENT: Rapal Oy and its shareholders
COMPANY/FIRM: KPMG Oy Ab
TESTIMONIAL: Rapal Oy is a Finnish Real Estate Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company that focuses on space management services. The business is divided into work environment management and infrastructure management with 250 customers including real estate companies, real estate tenants and architectural offices. Rapal Oy has a subsidiary that operates in the United States.
KPMG acted as the legal advisor for Rapal Oy and its shareholders in the sale of 100% of the shares in Rapal Oy to Norwegian publicly listed company Ørn Software Holding AS. KPMG assisted the sellers during an extensive due diligence review, which included legal, financial and tax review, advised Rapal Oy’s shareholders throughout deal negotiations and drafting of the transaction documentation, including, inter alia, the share purchase agreement, and finalized the deal by ensuring efficient closing.
KPMG’s legal team was led by Kai Soini and included Minna Poutiainen, Michael Mathur, Juuso Anttila and Sinia Raittila. KPMG also acted as the company’s and the sellers’ financial and tax advisor.
CLIENT: A1 Asunnot TL Oy
COMPANY/FIRM: KPMG Oy Ab
TESTIMONIAL: KPMG assisted client as a plaintiff in an issue related to the exchange of a contract-based security. The demand is a right to exchange the security to another type of security also based on the contract. The action is based on non-contractual principles, in particular the principle of loyalty, which cases are quite limited in Finnish case law. The complaint and the precautionary measure where handled by the District Court of Päijät-Häme. The District Court confirmed the precautionary measure on 23rd March 2020 and accepted the complaint in its entirety by judgement on 29th May 2020. The respondent appealed to the Court of Appeal of Eastern Finland rejected the appeal. The Supreme Court did not grant leave to appeal. Responsible for the engagement is Veli Suortamo.
CLIENT: Lujatalo Oy
COMPANY/FIRM: KPMG Oy Ab
TESTIMONIAL: Lujatalo Oy is one of the Luja companies, which is one of Finland’s largest construction groups. Lujatalo is both a residential and commercial builder, specializing in renovation and energy-efficient construction. Lujatalo Oy also has comprehensive services for project and real estate development.
KPMG’s Legal team assisted the client in the purchase of 100% of shares of NyCon Oy Ab, a Finnish construction company. KPMG performed a legal, financial and tax due diligence review on the target company, negotiated the transaction and drafted the sale and purchase agreement. Following closing of the deal, KPMG’s Legal team is responsible for the subsequent merger process regarding the new subsidiary.
KPMG’s legal team was led by Kai Soini and included Minna Poutiainen and Michael Mathur. KPMG also acted as the clients financial and tax advisor.
CLIENT: Prime Minister’s office
COMPANY/FIRM: KPMG Oy Ab
TESTIMONIAL: KPMG Law Finland’s IPR Team acted as authors and subcontractors for “Status of intellectual property rights in Finland 2020 – Background to the IPR strategy – Publications of the Government´s analysis, assessment and research activities 2021:13”.
To support the preparation of the Finnish national IPR strategy, this report provided a background study on the current state of IPR and its use, as well as on future challenges and key needs for change. The study is divided into the following sub-objectives: 1) IPR competence and companies; 2) The current state of education and the operating conditions of the administration; 3) the operation of the IPR court and market court fees; 4) Utilization of intellectual property rights in universities and research institutes; 5) The national economic significance and determination of the value of industrial property rights; 6) Challenges to change the IPR system from the perspective of data management and copyright infrastructure; 7) Legislative development needs.
The existing, successful matrix approaches for Enterprise and Government Clusters have been de facto widened to Financial Services Sector and Capital Markets Approach. For the Client matrix approach results in more holistic, business driven and relevant Legal, Advisory and Tax services. The deep Client understanding of both FS and Capital Markets Teams enables KPMG to provide integrated, innovative, and proactive solutions with strong project management and technology capabilities.
KPMG Law Finland arranged together with Nordic sister practices 23.3.2022 a Nordic Summit for General Counsels with the theme “The New Era of the Legal” which focused on Legal Operations Transformation Services with Technology focus. KPMG Law Finland has wide resources to provide Tech Solutions for the Client with Finnish KPMG Lighthouse Team focusing on Data, AI & Emerging Technologies, together with KPMG Law Finland’s own Legal Tech Team. For example, to the interaction with the Global Clients KPMG has “Digital Gateway for KPMG Law” and for the local Clients “KPMG Move”.
E-Sign, Teams-meetings, Document Automation etc. are everyday examples, where Legal services are sold, engagements are carried out and finalized for all Clients despite the size of each engagement in an effective and modern way.
REIT & Real Estate Fund Sector specializing in Finnish Land Funds have not been able – de facto – to acquire capital stocks of Real Estate Companies, and in that structure to agree land rental agreements and exits commercially viable way. Due to different reasons also owners of REIT-Ltd:s have increasingly been willing to sell only shares.
KPMG Law Finland has together with KPMG Tax opened up this lock up -situation by acquiring a landmark ruling from Supreme Administrative Court of Mutual REIT Ltd:s that only own land (SAC 2020:15) where after KPMG Law Finland has innovated, structured and assisted next to all of Finnish Real Estate Sector Clients to implement Land Funds and solving complex Real Estate Law, Corporate Law, Property Law, and Regulatory challenges.
The Clients largely benefit from KPMG Law’s multidisciplinary approach that combine technology approach and our proactive way and innovative culture where we interact with the Clients before they even are aware of their Legal or Regulatory needs.
Strategic direction of KPMG Law Finland is in line with Global KPMG Law’s short- and long-term strategy and vision which is communicated to each Client Sectors and our Lawyers as well as Advisors in accordance with the relevance.
In three years’ time KPMG Law Finland will benefit from the growth of KPMG Law Global and especially Nordic Legal Practices, which increase our both inbound and outbound volume, plus further expand our Legal capabilities for the benefit of the Clients. Megatrends in regulatory environment provide huge business possibilities for KPMG Law, especially when Tech-solutions are combined.