HPP Attorneys Ltd is pleased to announce that it has invited Senior Counsel Teija Lius to join the partnership effective 1 January 2023. Teija has been working at HPP from 2020 and she is a highly qualified finance lawyer with significant and wide-ranging experience in particular of advising on debt financing and equity investments in relation to projects, enterprises and funds, within Finland and internationally. She has assisted banks and other financiers as well as various private and public sector parties in complex financing arrangements, investments and other transactions.
Commenting on her partnership Teija said: “We have been growing our financing and transactional capability systematically in recent years and my partnership brings continuity to rapidly-growing Banking & Finance team to strengthen our ability to advise lenders, investors, funds and other parties involved in complex financing arrangements. I fully intend to continue to work internationally, building on my own, as well as HPP’s, connections to financial institutions, funds and leading law firms around the world and continuing HPP’s growth in advising clients in the finance sector. ”
HPP’s Head of Banking & Finance, Antti Rintakoski, commmenting on partership, said that it is also part of team’s long-term growth planning: “We have been systematically developing our team’s versatility and Teija has excellent experience which can only strengthen the Banking & Finance team’s capability and make us even better choice for large, complex financing arrangements in a wide range of sectors and industries. Teija’s strong international experience is particularly impressive and complements the international work HPP is increasingly engaged for.”
“We are delighted to have Teija as a new Partner at HPP within the firm’s Finance department. We are specialised to high value-added legal solutions to help customers to meet their business targets with our expertise. In line with HPP’s growth strategy Teija’s experience in both domestic and international financing matters will strenghten our financing and banking team, and enables us to serve our customers better also in transactions and corporate M & A team“, says Managing Partner Markku Mäkinen.
In addition to Antti Rintakoski and Teija Lius, also Senior Associate Ida Sandholm ja Associate Tobias Sundman will serve our customers in financing and banking matters.
Teija Lius
Partner
+358 40 559 9872
teija.lius@hpp.fi
