A law firm is more than just a business. A successful law firm is much more than a sum of its practice areas. As a firm, we believe in a strong unified corporate culture where all practices and practitioners share the same values, mission and strategy. This means we constantly focus on building and maintaining capabilities enabling us to assist and advise clients with complex cases in a highly competitive business environment. We want to help our clients change the business landscape, and in doing that, we work closely with law firms around the globe that value the same attributes and get retained by high-end clients for the same reasons.
Our long-term success is built on professional excellence and international experience combined with un-compromising integrity and ethics. But we do not succeed alone. That is why each assignment requires us to build the right team of experts for your company. Their innovative approach to legal challenges and strong commitment to the team enables us to assist you on the most demanding cases.
Borenius has one of the largest and most experienced M&A teams in Finland and the team is further supported by experts from our other service areas, such as Tax, Capital Markets & Public M&A, Banking & Finance, Intellectual Property, Competition, Employment, Environment and Energy.
We advise leading Finnish and foreign corporations, as well as private equity sponsors, on all aspects of public and private mergers and acquisitions and continuously rank as one of the most active M&A practices in Finland, whether measured by the volume or value of the transactions we carry out in any given year, as evidenced by Mergermarket or Thomson Reuters.
In addition to our industry driven strategic M&A assignments, our firm is well known for being a long-established adviser for private equity, with a reputation for sound advice, pragmatic approach and effective deal execution and we regularly advise many of the most active private equity sponsors on all stages of their investments.
Our clients are at the heart of what we do, and our achievements are built upon our clients’ success. That is why we are extremely happy to have been entrusted with a broad range of cases.
Borenius has one of the largest and most experienced employment law teams in Finland, with resources and recognised experience in handling the most complex domestic and international cases in all areas of employment law. Our employment team is also known for its top-class talents.
We advise our clients on all matters related to employment law, including business transfers, restructuring and insolvency procedures, and cooperation consultations. We also provide in-house training in all employment, pension and benefits related matters.
Our clients are at the heart of what we do, and our achievements are built upon our clients’ success. That is why we are extremely happy to have been entrusted with a broad range of cases.
Borenius’ Intellectual Property (IP) practice is at the undisputed top of the jurisdiction and we count many of Finland’s leading IP experts amongst our team members.
Our versatile team of IP litigation experts has secured winning results for clients in several landmark cases involving disputes related to patents, trademarks, copyright and unfair business practices. In addition to litigating cases before domestic courts, we are well-versed in arbitration proceedings.
We advise our clients on a wide range of strategic IP issues, commercial agreements, employee invention policies, freedom-to-operate and validity opinions as well as on trade secrets related matters.
We continuously assist well-known brand owners and clients engaged in the manufacture, wholesale and retail of goods with the drafting of manufacturing, licensing, distribution, agency, franchising and merchandising agreements. Some of the key market sectors include electronics, ICT, chemicals, cosmetics, pharma and food industries.
Our clients are at the heart of what we do, and our achievements are built upon our clients’ success. That is why we are extremely happy to have been entrusted with a broad range of cases.
Borenius’ Real Estate team advises investors, developers, owners and other parties on all real estate -related legal questions. Our team has extensive experience in acquisitions and sales of individual properties and real estate portfolios, including sale and lease-back, development, leasing and related financing and security issues.
Development and redevelopment projects draw on our strong experience in construction, environmental matters, zoning and land use. We are well known for our practical way of working in real estate development projects, and we are used to working with all relevant parties involved; developers, investors, users, municipalities and authorities. We are familiar with different financing structures used in development project transactions.
Our Real Estate team works in close co-operation with Borenius’ Fund Formation team, which gives us an excellent understanding in real estate investments and exits carried out by real estate funds. Taxation is often an important factor in our projects as well, and our tax lawyers often participate in real estate transactions to ensure that transaction and holding structures are tax-efficient for all parties.
Our clients are at the heart of what we do, and our achievements are built upon our clients’ success. That is why we are extremely happy to have been entrusted with a broad range of cases.
Borenius offers legal services in all aspects of domestic and cross-border dispute resolution, including conflict management and strategic planning in order to prevent and solve potential disputes. Our dispute resolution team is one of the largest and most respected in Finland.
Our commitment to our clients means that we make sure that the right people do the right things. The combination of our extensive and in-depth experience in dispute resolution and our in-depth knowledge of the relevant business sectors and legal substance issues ensures that we always have an optimal, professional team working to safeguard the best interests of our clients.
We have expertise in disputes related to a wide variety of fields. We regularly represent Finnish and foreign clients in complex litigation in courts of general jurisdiction, administrative courts, and specialised courts in various areas of business.
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We also have broad experience in handling arbitration proceedings under various international arbitration rules, and our experts serve frequently as arbitrators. We assist our clients through every stage of arbitration, from drafting arbitration clauses and conducting arbitration proceedings to the enforcement of domestic and foreign arbitral awards.
Our clients are at the heart of what we do, and our achievements are built upon our clients’ success. That is why we are extremely happy to have been entrusted with a broad range of cases.
