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Mr Jori Taipale
Work Department
Corporate; M&A; Banking & Finance
Position
Jori Taipale is a highly reputed lawyer within corporate mergers and acquisitions, private equity, banking and financial services, and competition and EU law, with over 25 years’ experience.
Today, Jori is the Head of Bird & Bird’s Nordic region, and a member of our International Corporate and M&A, Banking & Finance and Competition & EU Law Groups.
Career
Jori is often the leading partner in demanding cross-border and domestic M&A and finance transactions as well as in merger filings and major cartel and competition proceedings. He has also acted as an arbitrator in commercial disputes including proceedings around M&A transactions.
Before its merger with Bird & Bird, Jori was the managing partner of Fennica Attorneys in Finland. Prior to this he was an associate and junior partner at another leading Finnish firm.
You will find him in Chambers & Partners, the Legal 500 EMEA, IFLR1000 and the Best Lawyers in Finland.
Languages
Finnish, English, Swedish
Memberships
Member of the Finnish Bar Association
Member of the Finnish Association for Competition Law
Member of the Finnish Association for Arbitration
Education
LL.M., trained on the bench 1995
LL.M., University of Helsinki 1993
Lawyer Rankings
Finland > Banking and finance
The finance and financial regulation team at Bird & Bird advises a wide range of clients, including local and multinational banks, and Finnish and international private equity firms, on several financial regulatory matters, with a main focus on payment issues. In addition to payment-related regulation, the practice group also assists clients with anti-money laundry regulations, sanctions issues, and banking regulation mandates. Jori Taipale co-heads the team and has over 25 years of experience in financing and related insolvency and M&A transactions. Other key individual and fellow team co-head Kristiina Lehvilä leverages her background as an in-house banking lawyer to advise clients on a range of financing transactions and financial regulatory matters.