Finnish firm Roschier has announced the hire of Latham & Watkins capital markets partner Antti Ihamuotila, bringing him back home to Helsinki after 15 years in London. Ihamuotila has worked alongside Roschier on a number of transactions. Recent deals the two firms have both worked on include last year’s acquisition of ceramic toilet maker Sanitec […]
Eversheds has merged with Finnish full-service firm Juridia Bützow to form JB Eversheds. The move comes just over a year after Finland’s Bützow and Juridia merged to create a €28m (£23.5m) firm (1 October 2013). Eversheds has been working with legacy Bützow for seven years. Today Juridia Bützow has 165 staff and five offices across […]
Finland’s economy might be struggling but firms are thriving from a stream of acquisitions, restructures and start-ups emerging in Nokia’s wake Finland’s economy has not been in a good place recently, suffering two years of stagnation and with little sign of change in sight. Major employers, notably telecoms giant Nokia, have struggled to keep up […]
Linklaters’ Swedish office advised Microsoft and Mannheimer Swartling represented Mojang, the creators of hit game Minecraft, in the $2.5bn deal to buy the Swedish game company. Linklaters’ M&A transactions partner Elisabet Lundgren led the negotiations for Microsoft, with advice from other members of the firm’s Stockholm team. The owners of Mojang were represented by Swedish […]
Swedish polymer solutions company Trelleborg today announced that former Dometic Group general counsel Charlotta Grähs will replace Ulf Gradén as the company’s general counsel from 1 October. Grähs will take on a role as part of Trelleborg’s group management and act as secretary to its board of directors. She joins the company from her role […]
Fast-growing Swedish firm Magnusson is merging with Russian outfit Kachkin & Partners, gifting it an office in St Petersburg – its second in Russia. Magnusson has had a Moscow office since 2005. The Kachkin merger adds three partners and 19 other lawyers to the firm’s Russian presence. Kachkin was founded in 2001, and focuses predominantly […]
Baker & McKenzie has hired the head of McDermott Will & Emery’s European M&A practice Mats Sacklén in an effort to bridge the corporate divide between London and Stockholm. Sacklén, a former White & Case London-based partner, is qualified in both Swedish and US law and previously held a senior in-house legal position at the […]
An office launch and a merger sent ripples across the Nordic legal market this month. Hannes Snellman opened in Denmark as part of its quest to comprehensively cover the Nordic region, while Helsinki firms Merilampi and Veikko Palotie & Co merged. According to Merilampi, the merged firm will be Finland’s seventh-largest, with a turnover of […]
Wikborg Rein has become the first Norwegian firm to practise English law in the City after adding three maritime partners to its London office.
In a usually quiet legal market a spate of mergers has shaken things up and created a brand-new mid-tier competitor. Tom Phillips reports
Eversheds’ Stockholm office is merging with local commercial litigation specialist Södermark in a bid to double its Swedish turnover within a year.
A bumper fraud is the least of Denmark’s worries, with insolvencies hitting record figures. But Tom Phillips finds optimism for the country from those in the know Stein Bagger The high-profile case of a jet-setting fraudster who is alleged to have conned millions from customers, banks and an international accountancy firm has kept the Danish […]