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Purmo Group – Project Grand Bidco’s public tender offer on Purmo Group

Public takeover bids are highly regulated processes that put the spotlight on the diligence of both the bidder and the target. The bidder must ensure the equal treatment of shareholders and comply with insider regulations, while the board of directors of the target must at all times promote the interests of all shareholders.

We are an experienced and reliable partner for you at every stage of this multi-step process. We participate actively in drafting legislation and guidelines in this field, for example, the new Finnish Securities Markets Act and the Helsinki Takeover Code.

Advice and process management relating to public takeover bids
Drafting bid documentation
Insider matters
Disclosure and flagging notifications
Guidelines in the event of takeover situations

We regularly assist companies considering making takeover bids and target companies.

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Finnish manufacturing company – Arbitration proceedings under the SCC rules

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.

Voima Ventures – Investment in Aisti Corporation

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.

Hanza AB – Acquisition of Leden Group

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.

Huhtamaki – EUR 450 million sustainability-linked syndicated revolving credit facility

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.

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