Strategic Commercial

Strategic Commercial

We help our clients to achieve their business objectives and to navigate the legal and regulatory landscape through clear and enforceable contracts.

We offer strategic advice on all aspects of commercial agreements, from drafting and negotiating agreements and setting up contracting strategies e.g. in greenfield projects, to value creating contract management services during the entire contract life cycle.

Our firm’s leading contract law expertise covers all upstream and downstream commercial contracts as well as all specialty areas of business law. We regularly advise in relation to, e.g.

  • international framework, project and co-operation agreements
  • service, agency and consultancy agreements
  • sale, purchase and distribution agreements
  • supply agreements
  • outsourcing and manufacturing agreements
  • transport and logistics agreements
  • consumer contracts
  • licensing and franchising
  • IT agreements
  • life science related agreements

In addition to pure legal expertise, we believe a good contract lawyer also needs to understand the business in which the commercial contract is intended to operate. We have extensive experience from a wide range of sectors and industries, including e.g. technology, energy, manufacturing, consumer goods and services, food industry, automotive industry, media, telecommunications, transport and logistics, healthcare and financial services.

We also work closely together with our ESG experts in order to ensure that the quickly evolving sustainability requirements are adequately taken into account and incorporated into our clients commercial contracts and strategies.

As our client you can also benefit from our legal design expertise. Legal design is a creative approach that applies design thinking and user experience principles to contract drafting and to the creation of other legal products. Our contract lawyers constantly collaborate with our dedicated team of legal designers and our customers to enhance the user experience and effectiveness of our clients’ contracts. Our services also include the contract tool Signe.

Latest references

We advised DNB Bank ASA in its agreement with Fennia Mutual Insurance Company on the development and lease of the premises at Fabianinkatu 8, Helsinki. With the lease agreement, DNB Bank ASA will focus all its Finnish operations at the Fabian 8 office. The other tenants at the renewed premises will be DNB Carnegie Investment Bank AB’s Finnish operations and DNB Auto Finance Oy. In connection with the long-term lease agreement, the parties also agreed on a major renovation project to completely refurbish the premises. The object of lease will be completed in the second half of 2027.
Case published 10.10.2025
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
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
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