Banking and Finance

HPP’s banking and finance team has wide-ranging experience in complex and often high-value financial arrangements. We assist clients on assignments relating to syndicated lending, acquisition finance, project finance, bonds, high yield bonds, unitranche and direct lending, mezzanine finance, sale and leaseback, factoring and other asset finance, real estate finance and financing rounds of growth companies. We also regularly advise our clients in voluntary restructurings, contingency planning and distressed situations.

Defence

Providing legal services to the defence and security sectors requires a comprehensive understanding of the sector specifics, including national legislation on defence procurement and European Union public procurement regulations. Our sector-focused team offers a broad range of advice to clients across relevant areas including defence procurement, technology transfer, cybersecurity, contract law, competition law, export controls, mergers and acquisitions, and financing.

Industrial and Engineering

Advising industrial clients has always been at the core of HPP’s business. We have a long and wide-ranging experience in legal issues related to different industrial sectors. We have advised industrial operators with great success in legal issues related to different projects and transactions.

Infrastructure

HPP has significant and long experience of advising clients on large-scale, high value and challenging infrastructure projects, having advised on a number of the highest value infrastructure projects ever executed in Finland. Our experience includes infrastructure projects in sectors including mining and extraction, construction, harbours and ports, roads and airport terminals.

Technology

HPP’s technology team is one of the most reputable technology teams in private practice in Finland with long and varied experience in advising on technology assignments of all types and sizes. The HPP technology team is the largest in Finland and consists of a dedicated team of lawyers who only focus on technology projects and transactions including giving commercial, IPR and GDPR advice relating to technology.

Transactions

HPP has extensive experience in advising on corporate transactions, including private and public M&A, joint ventures, mergers and demergers, spin-offs and group restructurings, share swaps and business divestments. Our M&A team is regularly engaged on both sell-side and buy-side mandates, both domestic and involving cross border aspects, advising strategic buyers, industrials and private equity funds as well as corporate finance advisers on the execution of Finnish M&A deals.