On 21 June 2022, the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the content of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...

Castrén & Snellman's 2025 sustainability report reveals how the firm is helping clients navigate evolving ESG regulations while strengthening its own sustainability practices through carbon partnerships and strategic...

The European regulatory framework of corporate sustainability is taking shape at a rapid pace. Sustainability regulation changes both corporate sustainability reporting and corporate...

The Board of the Securities Market Association approved the Finnish Corporate Governance code in June 2010.

Castrén & Snellman continues as a sustainability forerunner in business law. Our newly published sustainability report for 2023 is our fourth. The report offers an overview of our sustainability work thus far...

The Finnish Securities Market Association has recently unveiled the Finnish Corporate Governance Code 2025, which took effect on January 1, 2025.

As a part of the EU Gender Equality Strategy 2020–2025, the EU's equality objective concerning the boards of listed companies is advancing after a 10-year break.

A new Co-operatives Act will come into effect in Finland on 1 January 2014.

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are increasingly making their way into M&A decision-making worldwide, and that is the case also in the Nordics.

The corporate world has been discussing sustainability for years, and it is an increasingly integral part of business operations. In the coming years sustainability will permeate the strategy...

In Finland, the first half of the year 2008 was relatively active within the M&A field.

If a company's financial difficulties turn into permanent insolvency, then the company should file for bankruptcy.

The Finnish regulatory framework for corporate governance and directors’ duties is governed by the following three Acts: the Companies Act, the Securities Markets Act and the Accounting Act.

There is a great deal of similarity in the work that lawyers and journalists do, and lawyers can also benefit from the skills of a journalist.

The purpose of the revised Finnish Co-operation Act is to improve the interaction between the employer and the personnel and to create a framework for the development of the company and the work community...

The Finnish Ministry of Finance has started preparations for a reform of the Finnish Securities Market Act (the "SMA").

The Finnish Corporate Governance Recommendation (the "CGR 2003"), initially issued in the year 1997, underwent last considerable revision in the year 2003.

In this blog, we will delve into the relationship between privacy and corporate sustainability and ESG, and the rapidly developing regulatory landscape and stakeholder expectations around them

The revised Finnish Corporate Governance Code (the "Code") for Finnish listed companies was issued on 20 October 2008 replacing the Corporate Governance Recommendation from 2003.

Managing Directors of limited liability companies are not considered to be employees and thus do not enjoy protection under the Finnish labour law.