Owners of a family company – Incorporation of ownership

Owners of a family company – Incorporation of ownership

We offer comprehensive advice in the fields of wealth management and marital property and inheritance law, combining tax aspects and family-law related risk management.

As a trusted partner for owner-entrepreneurs, family-owned businesses, and wealthy private individuals, our clients enjoy seamless, one-stop access to all the legal advice they need, ensuring that the strategic understanding of how they want their wealth to be managed remains crystal clear at all times.

When it comes to planning a business succession and the related ownership strategy, our support helps you identify how to pass on your business to the next generation in a viable way that respects the family’s wishes. We draft documentation under family law and contract law to prepare for situations where life doesn’t go according to expectations. We also update such documentation after a business transaction if the seller has acquired a substantial fortune as a result of the sale.

Advising estates on matters related to inheritance and estate taxation is another area of our expertise. We assist parties to an estate in resolving inheritance disputes and settling issues that are open to interpretation. We will also help you with taxation issues by applying for preliminary rulings and other pre-emptive guidance from the Tax Administration and by representing you in potential tax disputes. In tax-related administrative procedures, we screen all matters in advance to avoid any risk of criminal proceedings that may arise due to factors such as reporting errors.

We also offer support for all your other business legal needs from corporate governance to M&A and beyond. Your trusted personal advisor will act as your single point of contact and compile a team of experts with comprehensive legal insight and close contacts with business life to match your specific needs. We also work in close collaboration with major banks and asset management companies.

Our clients appreciate our straightforward and practical approach and our ability to explain legalese in plain language. Our expertise has also received international recognition: Chambers High Net Worth Finland Guide 2024 has ranked our team in Band 1 for Private Wealth Law.

Our services include

  • Wealth management planning
  • Planning and execution of ownership structures
  • Structuring and carrying out succession in a family business
  • Marital property and inheritance law related tax matters
  • Applications for preliminary ruling and other pre-emptive guidance
  • Tax litigation

Latest references

We advised Metsäliitto Cooperative in relation to a new EUR 200 million sustainability-linked revolving credit facility with a syndicate of eight banks. This new credit facility refinances the existing EUR 200 million facility signed in December 2018 and will be used for general corporate purposes. The facility has a tenor of five years and includes two one-year extension options. The pricing mechanism of the revolving credit facility is linked to two of Metsä Group’s ambitious sustainability targets: Target 1: Zero tonnes of fossil carbon dioxide emissions, Scope 1 and 2, by 2030. Target 2: Share of certified wood in wood supply 100% by 2030. ‘Incorporating sustainability criteria into our financing further demonstrates the company’s strong commitment to actions that reduce our carbon footprint and mitigate climate change,’ says Vesa-Pekka Takala, EVP, CFO of Metsä Group.
Case published 16.1.2025
We advised NoHo Partners Plc on a 119-million-euro financing arrangement. The financing arrangement frees up a significant part of the cash flow for the business and enables the implementation of an acquisition-driven growth strategy also in the future.
Case published 16.1.2025
We advised CapMan Buyout in the exit of Renoa Group. Renoa Group management together with Korpi Capital and other investors have acquired the group. Renoa Group is a Finnish established expert in the building technology sector specializing in detached houses in Finland and Sweden. Renoa is a major provider of turnkey domestic water & heating, sewer system and electricity network renovations, with significant operations also in Sweden. The Group reported sales of €35 million and employed c. 300 personnel across its 10 offices in Finland and 6 in Sweden. Korpi Capital is a Finnish investment company with holdings in 29 companies. 
Case published 14.1.2025
We advised eQ Community Properties Fund in its acquisition of a property portfolio comprising a health centre in Espoo, a daycare property in Vantaa, an elementary school in Helsinki, and a parking facility property in Helsinki from Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company. The lettable area of the first three properties is approximately 13,900 sq.m., while the parking facility offers 120 parking spaces. The portfolio’s tenants include the City of Helsinki, the City of Vantaa, the Western Uusimaa Wellbeing Services County, and Aimo Park Oy. In connection with the transaction, Ilmarinen invested in eQ Community Properties fund as per 31 December 2024.
Case published 9.1.2025