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Venture Capital
Finland
Jaakko Huhtala, Niko Markkanen & Mia Rintasalo
Waselius provides regulatory, tax, import and export, insolvency, litigation, and arbitration-related support to clients across the maritime, rail, road, and air transport industries. The team is most notable for its work in aviation, automotive, and green mobility. Practice head Maria Lehtimäki specialises in auto loan security and aircraft sale, lease, and financing arrangements. Lotta Pohjanpalo provides competition advice, and Jaako Huhtala advises auto rental and dealership companies on M&A matters.
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Key clients
- Hedin Mobility Group
- Castlelake
- Gilead 2025-1 Aviation Limited
- Alstom Transport
- Autodoc SE
- Aviation Working Group
- BBAM Aviation Services Limited
- Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications
- GOAL Leasing
- Hedin Automotive
- JLPS Ireland Limited
- LocalTapiola Finance
Work highlights
Acted as Finnish counsel to Gilead 2025-1 Aviation Limited and Gilead Aviation (Warehouse) LLC on the $600 million issuance of a public ABS securitisation of aircraft leases.
Advised the arranger and subordinated lender on the €125 million loan financing arrangement of bicycle leases for GoByBike, a Finnish employee benefit bicycle service provider.
Advised CityBike Vantaa Oy, part of the Spanish mobility company Inurba, on the public procurement process regarding a citybike system in the Helsinki region.
Practice head
Maria Lehtimäki
Other key lawyers
Lotta Pohjanpalo; Jaako Huhtala