Markku

Mäkinen

Banking and Finance
Industrial and Engineering
Infrastructure
Technology
Transactions

Specialised in the essential

HPP Attorneys

Markku

Mäkinen

Markku Mäkinen specializes in mergers and acquisitions, investment and capital markets transactions. Markku also advises clients in complex infrastructure projects.

Prior to joining HPP Markku worked as an in-house counsel at Nokia Corporation. He has extensive experience in demanding technology projects in an international environment. At Nokia he led several legal teams including Nokia China and Nokia North America legal teams.

Markku has acted as the Managing Partner of HPP since 2015.

FINNISH & ENGLISH
MEMBER OF THE FINNISH BAR

Area of ​​Expertise and Teams

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.

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.

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