4.11.2024

Law student, apply now for the most popular traineeship of the summer!

Join us at Castrén & Snellman for the summer of your life! We are looking for junior trainees for the summer of 2025.

Castrén & Snellman is a law firm of around 300 people. We are a forerunner of sustainability in the legal services industry, enabling our clients to build sustainable success stories. We are driven by the spark to provide the best legal service in Finland and to be the best workplace in the legal sector. Our hope is that our trainees share our values – the Spark, Respect, Courage and Responsibility – and contribute to our excellent team spirit.

For more information on our trainee programmes and working with us, please visit our Careers page and social media channels. You can also find answers to frequently asked questions about trainee programmes in our FAQ.

Take a look at the daily work of our trainees in our Instagram stories.

You can see our trainees at work on Instagram by following the series called Students takeover. You will also have the opportunity to ask our trainees Heikki and Senni about their experience as a summer trainee.

Apply for a summer trainee position by 20 November and come join us in building sustainable success stories! You can access the job add here.

Castrén & Snellman was the most attractive employer in the entire Finnish legal sector in the Universum Student Survey for the second year in a row. We have been the most popular private sector employer among law students for sixteen years running, ever since the survey was first conducted in 2008. This is the third time we were number one in the entire legal sector. The annual survey maps out the employer brand of companies in various fields among students. Read more here.

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Latest references

NoHo Partners – EUR 50 million secured notes and EUR 97 million senior secured facilities agreement

We advised NoHo Partners Plc on the issuance of EUR 50 million senior secured floating rate notes. The notes have a tenor of four years and mature on 10 September 2030. The notes bear interest at a rate of three-month EURIBOR plus a margin of 4.375 per cent. per annum. The notes were allocated to a mix of domestic and international investors. We also advised NoHo Partners on the negotiation of its new senior facilities agreement. The facilities agreement comprises a EUR 60,000,000 term loan facility, a EUR 10,000,000 capex facility and a EUR 27,000,000 revolving credit facility. “We are delighted by the interest investors have shown in the company’s Notes, which reflects confidence in our strategy. The successful issuance of the Notes, together with the new loan agreement, extends the maturity profile of our financing and enables the company to continue executing its growth strategy going forward. I would like to thank all investors for their participation, as well as our partner bank for the excellent execution of the Notes issuance”, says Jarno Suominen, CEO of NoHo Partners. OP Corporate Bank plc acted as the sole lead manager and bookrunner for the issue of the notes. NoHo Partners Plc is a Finnish group established in 1996, and it specialises in restaurant services being the creative innovator of the Northern European restaurant market. The company was listed in Nasdaq Helsinki in 2013 becoming the first Finnish listed restaurant company, and it has continued to grow strongly throughout its history. NoHo Partners’ vision is to be the leading restaurant operator in Northern Europe.

Topfoods – Acquisition of Delice Plus

We advised Topfoods Oy, a Triton-backed Geia Group company, on its acquisition of Oy Delice Plus Ab, a Finnish supplier of cakes and pastries. Through the acquisition, Topfoods strengthens its retail business and further reinforces its position in the cakes and pastries segment. Founded in 2008, Topfoods supplies selected food products to professional kitchens, the retail sector, and the food industry.

Deka Immobilien – Acquisition of a prime logistics property

We advised Deka Immobilien on its acquisition of a prime logistics property located at Turvalaaksonkuja 4, Vantaa, for the Deka-ImmobilienEuropa open-ended real estate fund. The property is situated within the Aviapolis logistics cluster, which is Finland’s leading logistics hub, benefiting from its location next to Helsinki Airport and its connections to the country’s main transport routes. Completed in 2022, the modern property comprises 32,947 sqm of lettable space and is fully let on a long-term basis to Barona Varastopalvelut Oy. The tenant is a Finnish 3PL provider offering warehousing and e-commerce logistics services to companies in Finland and internationally and uses the property as its central logistics hub. The property has achieved a BREEAM International New Construction rating of Excellent and an EPC rating of A, and it features photovoltaic and geothermal systems, among other things.

HANZA – Divestment of its Nivala and Sievi operations

We advised HANZA on the divestment of its Nivala and Sievi operations. The transaction was part of HANZA’s larger strategic reorganisation, where the company optimised its Finnish manufacturing cluster. Founded in 2008, HANZA is a Swedish mechanical engineering and electronics contract manufacturing company listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm main list. HANZA has approximately 5,000 employees and annual sales of SEK 10 billion.

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