Castrén & Snellman was shortlisted in ten categories for Women in Business Law Awards EMEA 2022. These awards celebrate the innovative diversity practices of progressive law firms as well as the ground-breaking achievements of leading women lawyers. We are very proud of these nominations, as they reflect our long-term efforts for equality.
Our firm was nominated as the Scandinavian Firm of the Year and in the National Firm categories for Diverse Women Lawyers and Pro Bono.
In addition, seven of our lawyers were nominated in their own practice areas:
• Environment Lawyer of the Year: Heidi Malmberg
• Equity Capital Markets Lawyer of the Year: Merja Kivelä
• Privacy & Data Protection Lawyer of the Year: Eija Warma-Lehtinen
• Restructuring & Insolvency Lawyer of the Year: Pauliina Tenhunen
• Technology Lawyer of the Year: Pia Ek
• Rising Star, Arbitration: Ilona Karppinen
• Rising Star, Finance: Mariella Bade-Landell
The WIBL Awards are organised in cooperation with IFLR, ITR, Managing IP, Benchmark Litigation and Euromoney Legal Media Group Expert Guides.
The winners will be announced on 23 June 2022.
Congratulations to all the nominees!
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Case published 10.10.2025
Yellow Film Studios – Merger of Yellow Film Studios and REinvent Studios
We advised Yellow Film Studios, the largest independent film and television production company in the Nordics, in its strategic merger with Danish film industry sales and financing studio REinvent Studios. Together they form Reinvent Yellow, a unified hub for television and film production, sales, financing and innovation, combining over three decades of production experience and a vast catalogue of titles.
Case published 8.10.2025
International reinsurance companies – Ad hoc arbitration proceedings
We successfully represented a panel of reinsurance companies in an international ad hoc arbitration. The dispute arose out of a reinsurance treaty under the terms of which the reinsurers had reinsured a portfolio of risks underwritten by the cedent. The parties disagreed as to whether the reinsurance provided coverage for a certain loss that had occurred because of the market turmoil caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The case involved highly complex legal and contractual questions requiring special expertise on reinsurance law and practice. The arbitral tribunal rejected the counterparty’s claims for reinsurance compensation against our clients in full. The amount in dispute was approximately EUR 34 million.
Case published 16.9.2025
byFounders.vc – DataCrunch’s USD 64 million Series A funding round
We supported byFounders.vc as the Finnish counsel in their investment in DataCrunch Oy in a USD 64 million Series A funding round. DataCrunch provides scalable AI compute solutions from energy-efficient data centers in Iceland and Finland. byFounders.vc is the community-powered early-stage venture fund investing in globally ambitious teams connected to the Nordic and Baltic countries.
Case published 11.9.2025