8 practice areas and 15 lawyers were ranked as notable individuals in their chosen specialist legal field with Shipping specialist Henrik Gahmberg rated as a ‘Eminent Practitioner’ and Head of Competition, Tuomas Saraste as well as Head of Energy & Environment, Kari Marttinen and Head of TMT Kari-Matti Lehti, all ranked as Leading Individuals in their practice area. The full list of HPP lawyers ranked is as follows:
Tuomas Saraste, Competition/European Law
Maarika Joutsimo, Competition/European Law
Kari Marttinen, Energy and Natural Resources, Real Estate, Dispute Resolution
Tarja Pirinen, Energy and Natural Resources
Kari-Matti Lehti, TMT
Pekka Raatikainen, TMT
Pekka Puhakka, Dispute Resolution
Jörgen Hammarström, Dispute Resolution
Mikko Leppä, Dispute Resolution
Björn Nykvist, Corporate/M&A, Energy and Natural Resources
Jari Tuomala, Real Estate
Juho Lenni-Taattola, Restructuring/Insolvency
Henrik Gahmberg, Shipping, Dispute Resolution
Nora Gahmberg-Hisinger, Shipping
Matti Komonen, Shipping
In addition HPP has been recommended in the following 8 practice areas:
Competition
Corporate and M&A
Dispute resolution
Energy and natural resources
Insolvency
Real estate
Shipping
TMT
Clients’ responses to our products and services:
Competition
“The team’s strengths are in having top people, a good teamwork dynamic and being able to connect abilities and skills into one focus. ”
M&A
“We’ve been very pleased. The lawyers are very knowledgeable, professional, always easy to reach and quick to react.”
“The lawyers are very friendly, prompt to answer and offer good advice that you can trust.”
Dispute resolution
“The way the lawyers make an effort to explain things to us understandably and to satisfy our client needs is admirable.”
“The team’s work is really thorough; you can see that the lawyers enjoy what they do, and this brings results.”
Energy
”Its lawyers respond fast and are always available for meetings at short notice. ”
“One of the best environmental legal teams there is.”
Real estate
“The lawyers are very experienced and thus able to concentrate on essential issues in agreements, saving huge amounts of time and energy.”
“These are commercially oriented lawyers. They have the competence to look after the clients’ best interest but also know about market practices, so when there are things that may cause problems down the road, they notice that.”
Restructuring
“The lawyers have a willingness to openly discuss different scenarios and don’t sell us something that looks good but isn’t safe enough. Their honesty really shows through.”
Shipping
“The team delivers on time, giving even more than we expect on different risks and mitigation issues. I’m very happy with its performance and thorough work. No matter the issues, the quality of work is very high. ”
TMT
“The team has a high level of expertise and timely delivery.”