With their broad service offering, the team at Roschier advises IT, technology, media, and entertainment clients across copyright law, regulatory and license applications, compliance matters, litigation, and sales agreements. The team is jointly led by Johanna Lilja, who specialises in providing regulatory advice to health and patient, employee, and electronic communications data companies, and Arto Linnervuo, who assists clients with IT, business process, and industrial outsourcing arrangements. Mikko Manner is notable for his work on patent, copyright, and trade secret commercialisation and licensing work. Miikka Konttinen supports energy clients with technology related matters.
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Partner Arto Linnervuo is Head of Roschier's Digitalization & TMT and Outsourcing practices. He has extensive experience in advising clients on various technology-related matters in both private and public sectors. Arto has been involved in the most significant projects in the Finnish market in the past few years representing large international corporations in cross-border digital transformation and business process development projects as well as IT outsourcing, business process outsourcing (BPO) and industrial outsourcing arrangements. Arto also provides legal advice on cloud computing, software licensing and audits, data protection & privacy, Internet of Things (IoT), E-Commerce & Internet as well as telecommunications regulation. In addition to non-contentious matters, he frequently handles IT disputes in courts of arbitration and public courts.

Arto acts as an advisor to many promising tech start-ups and growth companies. He has a good understanding of their businesses and challenges having been chairman and member of the Board in a number of software and biotechnology companies.

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  • They give solid business-minded advice. They don't only advise about the law, but also about the business practices in that sector, which we are not so much aware of.'

    'Arto Linnervuo's strong background in IT/technology agreements and dispute resolution has provided invaluable support and expertise over the years.’

    ‘Roschier is a full-service firm with significant brand equity. Their reputation is built on a foundation of comprehensive expertise, fielding specialist teams across all significant legal domains.'

    'They maintain a dominant practice in high-stakes litigation and arbitration, representing a benchmark for complex contentious matters, and the firm is renowned for its transactional excellence, demonstrating sophisticated capabilities in structuring and negotiating complex commercial agreements.’ 'Miikka Konttinen and Arto Linnervuo have been particularly valuable. Both have a very strong and deep experience in IT/Technology agreements and dispute resolution, which is a rare and critical asset.' 'The individuals on the Roschier TMT team are exceptional because of their pragmatism and commercial acumen. They are not afraid to give clear, direct advice, and they understand that clients need concrete recommendations, not just a list of legal options.' 'Their key strength is their ability to seamlessly blend legal expertise with a practical, commercial understanding of the business sector in question. This allows them to offer legally sound and commercially viable solutions.' 'Miikka Konttinen was the responsible lawyer, and with his guidance, we successfully resolved a difficult dispute with my previous employer's SAP integrator. Miikka is extremely professional; he genuinely understands the client's needs.'

Key clients

  • Autoliv Bauer Media Finland Oy Discovery Media Epic Systems Corporation Fiskars Fortum Kemira Metso Mobidiag MTV Oy Neste Nokia Oura Health PayPal Quest Diagnostics Inc. Qvantel Telia Company Varjo Veoneer Virta Global Wolt

Work highlights

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