Maria Penttilä
Europe Guide 2024
Band 4 : Employment
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About
Provided by Maria Penttilä
Practice Areas
Maria Penttilä has extensive experience in employment law related matters. During her over 17 years' experience, Maria has gained a wide range of experience in the field of employment law, and in handling various types of civil litigation as well as criminal and administrative proceeding.
Maria has strong experience e.g. civil and criminal proceedings, recruitment procedures, employment and executive contracts, non-competition contracts, termination of employment, cooperation procedures, workplace harassment and other occupational health and safety procedures, administrative processes in both municipal and governmental public service relations. Maria advices regularly also executives in matters related to their employment relationship, such as in termination agreement negotiations. In addition to representing parties in arbitration, Maria acts as an arbitrator in employment law disputes.
Career
Roihu Attorneys-at-Law Ltd, Attorney-at-Law, Partner, 2016 –
Eversheds Attorneys Ltd (and predecessors), Attorney-at-law,
Specialist Counsel, 2005 – 2016
Tuusula District Court, Notary, 2004–2005
Bützow Attorneys Ltd, Lawyer, 2004
Professional Memberships
Finnish Bar Association
Legal expert team on labour law of the Finnish Bar Association (9/2016 onwards, chairman 2/2020)
Labour Law Association
European Employment Lawyer Association (EELA)
Chambers Review
Europe
Maria Penttilä moves up in the rankings on the back of impressive feedback and a broad employment law practice that covers advising clients on terminations, incentives, collective bargaining agreements and non-compete clauses, as well as representing them in disputes.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"It's been a pleasure to work with Maria. She is always quick, responsive and very easy to understand, and she can always give us different options and then help us with choosing the right one for us."
"Maria is one of a kind - a strong lawyer with a warm heart."
"She knows our company background and the challenging context we have. She can communicate with our stakeholders on a very practical level, which helps us in our implementation processes."
"She can give the most accurate practical advice on complex matters."
"We always receive thought-through, quality advice with good response times."
"It's been a pleasure to work with Maria. She is always quick, responsive and very easy to understand, and she can always give us different options and then help us with choosing the right one for us."
"Maria is one of a kind - a strong lawyer with a warm heart."
"She knows our company background and the challenging context we have. She can communicate with our stakeholders on a very practical level, which helps us in our implementation processes."
"She can give the most accurate practical advice on complex matters."
"We always receive thought-through, quality advice with good response times."