2.12.2025

GRR 100: Castrén & Snellman one of the world’s leading restructuring and insolvency firms

Castrén & Snellman was recognised as one of the world’s leading cross-border restructuring and insolvency law firms in the 2025 edition of the Global Restructuring Review’s GRR 100 guide.

Our restructuring and insolvency team’s experts Pauliina Tenhunen, Pekka Jaatinen, Elina Pesonen and Christer Svartström were singled out for praise.

GRR 100 is a guide for advisers and their clients to find specialist counsel with the expertise they need, in the region they need. By vetting each firm for demonstrable experience in cross-border matters and profiling their fields of expertise, the guide highlights practitioners capable of offering dependable advice to stakeholders dealing with multinational businesses in distress.

‘Castrén & Snellman has very knowledgeable and pragmatic lawyers. They handled the voluntary liquidation of two subsidiaries efficiently in terms of substance, time, and costs.’

– Client testimonial, GRR 100 2025

The list is compiled annually by Global Restructuring Review, a daily news and analysis service on cross-border restructuring and insolvency law. The GRR 100 guide features 153 firms from 41 jurisdictions.

The GRR 100 list 2025 is available here.

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We advised an international bank syndicate in a EUR 300 million revolving credit facility (RCF) for ICEYE, the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space. The bank-syndicate comprised Nordic and global banks, with Citi and Danske Bank acting as Joint Global Coordinators and Mandated Lead Arrangers. The RCF will support the issuance of guarantees for customer contracts, enable continued business growth, and serve as a liquidity backstop. 
Case published 21.5.2026
We are advising Terrieri Kiinteistöt Ky and A. Ahlström Kiinteistöt Oy in the sale of a modern production and logistics building complex to Swedish property investment company Catena AB. We are also assisting S-Bank Building Plot non-UCITS Fund which in connection with the transaction, has agreed to sell the land area where the building complex is located to Catena AB. The building complex located in the immediate vicinity of Helsinki-Vantaa Airport was completed in 2021 and comprises approximately 23,260 square metres of leasable area, fully leased to Cramo Finland Oy. The approximately 140,000-square-metre plot offers additional long-term development potential in the form of approximately 45,000 square metres of additional building rights.
Case published 21.5.2026
We advised Huhtamäki Oyj on its issuance of a EUR 300 million 6-year senior unsecured bond under the EMTN programme and on the tender offer of its EUR 500 million senior unsecured bond maturing in 2027. The new bond bears interest at a fixed rate of 3.875 per cent per annum. Huhtamäki used the net proceeds from the issuance of the new bond for the partial repurchase of its bond maturing in 2027 and for general corporate purposes.
Case published 21.5.2026
We advised G&W Electric with its acquisition of Safegrid Oy, a leading provider of intelligent grid monitoring solutions based in Finland. The acquisition accelerates G&W Electric’s long-term strategy to integrate intelligent monitoring and predictive analytics into its power distribution portfolio, strengthening its offering to utility customers worldwide. Founded in 1905 and headquartered in Bolingbrook, Illinois, G&W Electric is a global leader in innovative power grid solutions, with a presence in over 100 countries. The company is known for advanced load and fault interrupting switches, reclosers, sensors, system protection equipment, power grid automation, intelligent grid monitoring, and transmission and distribution cable accessories. Safegrid is a Finnish technology company headquartered in Espoo, Finland. The company develops the Intelligent Grid System®, a grid monitoring solution that combines instant-on wireless sensors with advanced analytics to deliver real-time insight into grid conditions, enabling utilities to identify emerging issues, anticipate failures, and reduce outage duration across medium and high voltage distribution and transmission networks.
Case published 8.5.2026