Who’s Who Legal has named Castrén & Snellman as Finland’s Law Firm of the Year. This is the third award we have received recognising this record-breaking year for our firm. We have also been named Law Firm of the Year in Scandinavia and the Nordics in The Lawyer European Awards, and Scandinavian Law firm of the year in the IFLR Women in Business Awards.
21.12.2021
Who’s Who Legal Awards 2021: C&S Law Firm of the Year in Finland
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Each year Who’s Who Legal presents awards to the individuals and firms in over 70 jurisdictions that have performed exceptionally well in their research. Twenty-eight of our practitioners received high individual rankings in different practice areas during this year:
Thought Leaders Global Elite
Thought Leaders are those individuals who have performed exceptionally well in WWL’s research, with only a small proportion of those considered selected. Only around 2% of all nominees are selected as Global Elite Thought Leaders.
Pekka Jaatinen, Thought Leaders Global Elite – Restructuring & Insolvency
Eija Warma-Lehtinen, Data – Data Privacy & Protection 2021
Thought Leaders 2021:
Sanna Alku, Labour & Employment
Pia Ek, Data Privacy & Protection, Information Technology
Anders Forss, Litigation
Tuomas Lehtinen, Construction
Pauliina Tenhunen, Corporate Governance
Outi Tähtinen, Labour & Employment
Eija Warma-Lehtinen, Data Security, Telecoms & Media
Future Leaders – Non-Partners 2022
Jerker Pitkänen, Arbitration
Recommended and Global Leaders
Anders Forss, Arbitration, Commercial Litigation
Mikko Alakare, Tax Advisory
Pia Ek, Data Security,
Marko Hentunen, Arbitration, Commercial Litigation
Pekka Jaatinen, Corporate Governance
Suvi Kettunen, Labour & Employment
Merja Kivelä, Capital Markets – Debt & Equity
Anna Kuusniemi-Laine, Government – Government Contracts
Sari Laaksonen, Tax Advisory
Niklas Langenskiöld, Transport – Shipping
Janne Lauha, Banking – Regulatory
Tuomas Lehtinen, Mediation
Johanna Lähde, Government – Government Contracts
Heidi Malmberg, Environment
Nina Mikander, IP – Trademarks
Jussi Nieminen, Future Leader – Competition
Hanna Paloheimo, IP – Patents, Life Sciences
Sakari Salonen, IP – Trademarks. IP – Patents
Samuli Tarkiainen, Energy – Power/Electricity
Pauliina Tenhunen, Restructuring & Insolvency
Uwe Uusitalo, Construction
Matias Wallgren, Environment
Jan Örndahl, M&A
See all the winners on the website of Who’s Who Legal.
Who’s Who Legal identifies the foremost legal practitioners in multiple areas of business law every year. In total, the site features over 50,000 of the world’s leading private practice lawyers and 2,500 consulting experts from over 160 national jurisdictions.
Read more about WWL’s research methodology here.
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Delta Capacity – Acquisition of BESS Project
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Swedbank – Refinancing of Trophi’s Finnish retail real estate portfolio
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HANZA – Acquisition of Fortaco Finland’s heavy mechanics and assembly business
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