Chambers Global has once again ranked Castrén & Snellman’s services among the top in Finland in its yearly publication. The rankings place special emphasis on client feedback, supplemented by background information provided by law firms.
13.2.2025
Castrén & Snellman top-ranked in Chambers Global 2025: ‘High-level of business expertise’
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Castrén & Snellman was highly ranked in six categories in the Chambers Global Guide.
Dispute Resolution:
The attorneys are experienced and solution-oriented litigators who understand complex cases, and help build a strategy that allows the court to understand the case’s essential factors.
Banking & Finance:
Castrén & Snellman has the ability to grasp complex matters quickly and efficiently and take into account the big picture and future consequences.
Corporate M&A:
Castrén & Snellman offers a high-level of business expertise combined with perfect communication skills and had excellent consistency in handling the project.
Capital Markets:
Castren & Snellman provided really business-oriented advice regarding capital markets compliance in a truly unique situation.
Intellectual Property:
Castrén & Snellman has a very solid IP practice. It has quite a senior team with lots of experience.
In addition to service-specific categories, Chambers separately evaluates the services of law firms in international assignments. The ‘International & Cross-Border Capabilities’ category recognises law firms that are the easiest to approach from the client’s perspective and offer the highest quality service when international expertise is required in the assignment.
The law firm’s high-quality full-service team means it is a capable partner on cross-border matters across many areas of work including transactions such as leveraged buyouts, financing, M&A and dealing with foreign securities as well as disputes and arbitration.
Humble thanks to all our clients who gave feedback regarding our services!
Individual rankings for 13 of our experts
13 of our lawyers in total received individual rankings from Chambers Global.
- Tero Tuomisto, Banking & Finance
- Sakari Lukinmaa, Banking & Finance
- Janne Lauha, Capital Markets
- Jan Örndahl, Corporate/M&A
- Carola Lindholm, Corporate/M&A
- Anders Forss, Dispute Resolution
- Marko Hentunen, Dispute Resolution
- Tuomas Lehtinen, Dispute Resolution
- Ilona Karppinen, Dispute Resolution
- Jerker Pitkänen, Dispute Resolution
- Sakari Salonen, Intellectual Property
- Hanna Paloheimo, Intellectual Property
- Kim Parviainen, Intellectual Property
Anders Forss and Marko Hentunen were named Finland’s ‘Most in Demand Arbitrators’ by the publication.
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