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18.11.2022
Who’s Who Legal Awards 2022: Castrén & Snellman Law Firm of the Year in Finland
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Each year Who’s Who Legal presents awards to the leading firms and individuals that have performed exceptionally well in their research. Twenty-eight of our practitioners received high individual rankings in various practice areas this year.
Global Elite Thought Leaders
Thought Leaders are those individuals who have performed exceptionally well in Who’s Who Legal’s research, with only a small proportion of those considered selected. Only around 2% of all nominees are selected as Global Elite Thought Leaders.
The Global Elite Thought Leaders at Castrén & Snellman are:
Pekka Jaatinen: Restructuring & Insolvency
Tomi Kemppainen: Labour & Employment
Matias Wallgren: Environment
Eija Warma-Lehtinen: Data – Data Privacy & Protection; Data – Data Security
Recommended and Global Leaders
Anders Forss: Arbitration; Commercial Litigation
Marko Hentunen: Arbitration; Commercial Litigation
Merja Kivelä: Capital Markets – Debt & Equity
Tuomas Lehtinen: Construction; Commercial Mediation
Uwe Uusitalo: Construction; Energy – Oil & Gas
Pekka Jaatinen: Corporate Governance
Vesa Rasinaho: Corporate Governance
Pauliina Tenhunen: Corporate Governance; Restructuring & Insolvency
Mikko Alakare: Corporate Tax – Advisory
Sari Laaksonen: Corporate Tax – Advisory
Eija Warma-Lehtinen: Data – Information Technology; Telecoms & Media
Pia Ek: Data – Data Security; Data – Data Privacy & Protection; Data – Information Technology; Telecoms & Media
Carola Lindholm: Energy – Power/Electricity
Samuli Tarkiainen: Energy – Power/Electricity
Matias Wallgren: Energy – Power/Electricity
Heidi Malmberg: Environment
Anna Kuusniemi-Laine: Government – Government Contracts
Johanna Lähde: Government – Government Contracts
Hanna Paloheimo: IP – Patents; Life Sciences – Regulatory; Life Sciences – Patent Litigation
Nina Mikander: IP – Trademarks
Sakari Salonen: IP – Trademarks; IP – Patents
Sanna Honkinen: Labour & Employment
Outi Tähtinen: Labour & Employment; Pensions & Benefits
Tomi Kemppainen: Pensions & Benefits
Jan Örndahl: M&A
Niklas Langenskiöld: Transport – Shipping
Future Leaders – Partners
Jussi Nieminen: Competition
Future Leaders – Non-Partners
Jerker Pitkänen: Arbitration
See all the winners on the website of Who’s Who Legal: https://whoswholegal.com/
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.
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