MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

Benefit from experience and swiftness in mergers and acquisitions deals.

The real expertise in mergers and acquisitions lies in your lawyers' ability to understand and utilise the special features of the laws governing a particular industry. Merging two banks is markedly different from merging two mining companies.

LMR lawyers have handled several of the largest such deals in Finland. We have acted as counsel for both sellers and buyers, both private-sector and government organisations, both nationally and internationally.

Cross-border acquisitions, whether investments by Finnish investors abroad or by foreign investors in Finland, require an understanding of legal concepts and contract practices used in many different countries, as well as a grasp of foreign business cultures. LMR is in a unique position to provide valuable assistance in transactions with international dimensions.

We are used to taking the responsibility for managing the documentation and negotiation process for business acquisition and divestiture projects, including all assistance and coordination in the bidding stage (whether private or public auction), drafting and negotiation of legal documentation, and managing the closing of acquisition transactions.

Here are some of our assignments:

• Representing the sellers in connection with the sale of a controlling majority of a Finnish company listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange to another listed company
• Representing a US company in its acquisition of the industrial operations of a business division of a major Finnish state-owned natural resources company
• Representing a major Finnish telecommunications operator in its corporate acquisitions in the Baltic States
• Representing a UK private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of a significant shareholding in a Finnish manufacturing company
• Representing a major Finnish bank in large restructurings of Finnish banking industry
• Advising a number of foreign companies in their acquisition of Finnish IT and software companies