Employment Law Counselling

Employment Law Counselling

Employment law is a densely regulated field that calls for in-depth, specialised expertise. We offer a unique combination of extensive legal expertise, long-term practical experience and acclaimed negotiation skills.

We offer services in the following daily employment law matters:

  • Employment and director agreements
  • Terms of employment and amending terms of employment
  • Termination of employment
  • Working time and annual holiday issues
  • Non-disclosure, non-solicitation and non-competition issues
  • Collective agreement issues
  • Family leave, social security and pensions
  • Terminations of employment
  • Use of external labour
  • Criminal issues relating to employment relationships
  • Workplace ESG

Our clients are always employer companies.

Companies that handle their employment matters professionally are respected and desirable employers on the market. You will save time and money by letting us handle your day-to-day employment law matters.

Latest references

We assisted our client in a major project involving the reorganisation of operations and the implementation of an outsourcing plan. The plan related to changes in the business process of one of the client’s key businesses. The assignment involved planning, scheduling and implementing the change process, and our client was able to implement the change to the business process in a controlled manner and on schedule. Successfully handling this assignment required our team to have in-depth knowledge of employment and cooperation proceeding legislation, to be able to fully internalise our client’s business and goals to take a practical approach.
Case published 20.10.2017
We advised Neste as it signed a EUR 250 million 10-year loan with NIB. The loan will finance Neste’s investments related to research and development (R&D) in processing lower-quality feedstocks into high-quality renewable products; as well as the liquefied waste plastics (LWP) investment at Neste’s refinery in Porvoo, Finland. The R&D activities supported by the loan focus on the development of renewable solutions. These include, for example, expanding feedstock capabilities and technologies that enable the processing of new and lower-quality waste and residues into high-quality renewable end products. Part of the financing supports Neste’s liquefied waste plastics investment in Porvoo, related to upgrading low-quality plastic waste into high-quality feedstock at an industrial scale. The investment contributes to advancing circular economy solutions by enabling the use of hard-to-recycle plastic waste as a replacement for virgin fossil raw materials. The unit has an annual capacity to process up to 150,000 tonnes of liquefied waste plastic. Production ramp-up commenced in 2026.
Case published 19.8.2026
We advised Aspo Plc, ESL Shipping Ltd and AtoBatC Shipping AB in relation to finance matters in connection with the demerger of Aspo, by which all the shares in ESL Shipping Ltd held by Aspo, together with the related assets and liabilities, will be transferred to a new independent company to be named ESL Shipping Group Plc. Aspo intends to apply for the shares of ESL Shipping Group to be admitted to trading on the regulated market of Nasdaq Helsinki. It is further intended that Aspo be renamed Telko Group Plc. 
Case published 19.8.2026
We acted as Finnish law legal adviser to the lenders and the export credit agencies in connection with the EUR 514.4 million green project financing for the development and construction of Easpring Finland New Materials Oy’s cathode active material (CAM) manufacturing plant in Kotka, Finland. The borrower, Easpring Finland New Materials Oy, is a joint venture owned by Beijing Easpring Material Technology, Finnish Minerals Group and LG Energy Solution. The financing was provided by six international commercial banks, with Société Générale acting as financial adviser and mandated lead arranger together with Natixis as co-mandated lead arranger, and DNB, ICBC, ING and Standard Chartered participating as lenders, with support from the export credit agencies Finnvera and Sinosure. The project represents a significant milestone for Finland and the European battery value chain by strengthening Europe’s domestic supply of cathode active materials, a key component in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage applications. Once the first phase of the project is operational, the Kotka facility is expected to produce approximately 60,000 tonnes of cathode active material annually, making it one of the largest CAM production plants in Europe and supplying leading battery manufacturers across Europe. 
Case published 21.7.2026