Finnish manufacturing company – Arbitration proceedings under the SCC rules

Finnish manufacturing company – Arbitration proceedings under the SCC rules

Market-leading team advising on a broad range of complex and high-value disputes. Strong expertise in both litigation and arbitration.

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In a rapidly changing world, the risk of disputes grows. At worst they can seriously disrupt your business, but even the most difficult disputes can be resolved when you are advised by the right people.

We handle the most complex disputes for leading international and domestic clients. We have vast cross-border experience and regularly advise clients around the world.

You will have our team of tier 1 experts dedicated to your case. We tailor the best team for every specific case by combining leading experts within the relevant fields of business and law. 

Our approach combines a keen strategic eye with efficient project management and  AI-tools. This enables us to provide you with the best and most effective solution to your dispute.

We have developed our outstanding reputation over 130 years of serving our clients’ interests.

Our services include:

We have special expertise in the following industries and fields of law:

  • Real estate and construction disputes
  • Energy disputes
  • Disputes relating to information system deliveries and other technology disputes
  • Data breaches and cyber security threats
  • M&A disputes
  • Corporate and commercial disputes
  • Banking, finance and insurance litigation
  • Private enforcement of competition law
  • Professional liability
  • Disputes relating to retailing and agency agreements
  • Media and sports law
  • Product liability
  • Environmental liability
  • Enforcement of judgments and awards
  • Interim measures

Latest references

We successfully represented a Finnish manufacturing company in arbitration proceedings under the SCC rules against a global construction company. The dispute was governed by Finnish law and the seat of arbitration was Stockholm, Sweden. The dispute mainly concerned the termination of an erection contract and the right to compensation for delays of the project and for cost increases due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The main questions in dispute were the lawfulness of the termination of the erection contract as well as the consequences of the termination such as the right to costs to complete the project after termination, the right to liquidated damages for delay of the project and adjustment of contract price due to cost increases. The total value of the dispute exceeded EUR 15 million.
Case published 8.1.2025
We represented Voima Ventures in the Series A funding round of Aisti Corporation. Aisti’s EUR 29 million funding round will support the construction of its first commercial factory in Kitee, Finland, enabling the company to scale production. Other investors include Maki.vc and Valve Ventures Consortium among others. Voima Ventures is a venture capital fund investing in top scientific deep tech ventures in the Nordics and Baltics. Aisti Corporation is an acoustic tiles manufacturer with sustainability and functionality at heart. Aisti’s acoustic tiles are made from highly renewable wood fibres. With the factory in Kitee, the company plans to achieve a production capacity of 2.5 million square meters annually.
Case published 13.12.2024
We are acting as Finnish advisor to Hanza AB relating to its acquisition of all the shares in Leden Group Oy. Hanza AB is a Swedish mechanical engineering and electronics contract manufacturing company listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Founded in 2008, the company has six manufacturing clusters in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Baltics, Central Europe and China and an annual turnover of approximately SEK 4.6 billion. Leden Group is a leading Finnish contract manufacturer specialising in sheet metal, machining and complex assembly. Leden Group has four production sites in Finland and one in Estonia and an annual turnover of approximately SEK 1.1 billion.  The closing of the transaction remains subject to authority approval and customary conditions.
Case published 13.12.2024
We advised Huhtamaki Oyj in relation to a EUR 450 million sustainability-linked syndicated multi-currency revolving credit facility loan agreement (“RCF”) with a maturity of five years. The RCF refinances an existing EUR 400 million sustainability-linked syndicated revolving credit facility signed in January 2021 and will be used for general corporate purposes of the Group. The RCF has two one-year extension options at the discretion of the lenders. The Mandated Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners of the RCF are Citi, Nordea Bank Abp, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ), BNP Paribas, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, Danske Bank A/S, DBS Bank Ltd., London Branch, J.P. Morgan SE, Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale, OP Corporate Bank plc, Raiffeisen Bank International AG and Standard Chartered Bank AG.
Case published 28.11.2024