Roschier

Firm Details:

Head of Office: Mikko Manner

Number of partners worldwide: 49

Number of other lawyers worldwide: 300

Languages: Swedish, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Danish, Italian

Firm Overview:

Roschier is one of the leading law firms in the Nordic region with offices in Helsinki and Stockholm. It is well-known for its excellent track record of advising on demanding international business law assignments and large-scale transactions. The firm’s focus is on long-term client relationship management and offering business-oriented solutions to clients. Roschier works actively on increasing the co-operation with its clients within all the firm’s practice areas in order to maximize the quality of its work.

Main Areas of Practice

• Brand Protection
• Corporate Advisory
• Corporate Investigations & Compliance
• Data Protection
• Digitalisation & TMT
• Dispute Resolution
• Emerging Companies
• Employment
• Energy & Infrastructure
• Environment & Natural Resources
• Equity Capital Markets
• EU & Competition
• FDI & Protective Security
• Finance & Restructuring
• General Commercial
• Industrial Investments
• Intellectual Property
• Marketing & Consumer
• Outsourcing
• Private Equity
• Private Funds
• Private M&A
• Public M&A
• Public Procurement
• Real Estate
• Tax & Structuring

Clients

Clients include leading domestic and international corporations, financial service and insurance institutions, investors, growth and other private companies with international operations, as well as governmental authorities.

International Work

Roschier is the Finnish member firm of Lex Mundi, the world’s leading association of independent law firms. In addition, the firm has an established network of leading law firms across Europe, the US and other jurisdictions and works closely with these firms to provide its clients seamless cross-border service. The firm has extensive experience in applying joint working procedures and in acting as lead counsel in complex multi-jurisdictional assignments.

Roschier’s recent work highlights

• Acting for the Province of Quebec in the acquisition of the Helsinki Shipyard
• Acting for Oras Invest Oy as the largest owner of Uponor, in the EUR 2.10 bn sale of Uponor Oyj to Georg Fischer AG
• Acting for Brown-Forman Corporation in the sale of Brown-Forman Finland Oy, owner of the Finlandia vodka brand, to Coca-Cola HBC
• Acting for Rovio Entertainment Corporation in the EUR 700 million all cash takeover of all shares in Rovio by Sega Europe
• Acting for Groupe Canal+ in Viaplay Group’s SEK 18.6 billion recapitalization program
• Acting for Avalara in its SEK 7.3 billion public offer for Pagero
• Acting for TA Associates as principal shareholder in the fully underwritten SEK 4.3 billion rights issue in Elos Medtech
• Acting for KKR’s life science platform Gamma in the sale of Astrea to Biotage.