BANKING, FINANCE, INSURANCE AND SECURITIES MARKETS

Work with long-time experts in corporate financial deals.

Whether you are lending or borrowing, or are considering the structuring of financial transactions, the better your legal advice, the more you stand to get out of the deal.

LMR knows national and international deals from both sides of the table. When it comes to corporate finance, tapping the capital markets to raise debt or equity, and the many forms of structured finance, we help in the documentation and consummation of deals for international banks, investment banks and corporate clients. We also advise equity investors, for example venture capital firms investing in structured instruments such as equity with preferential features.

We counsel many public companies in matters relating to securities and listings. Legislation in this area is one of our specialist areas. We also have good contacts with the regulatory authorities.

Complex financial deals require that your lawyers have an understanding of what kinds of arrangements are feasible and what are not. Because our finance lawyers have worked as in-house banking lawyers, as well as in international environments, and because we constantly keep abreast — if not ahead — of the latest developments in finance law, we can provide competitive legal services in many specialist areas of finance, such as acquisition finance, trade and project finance and many types of secured lending arrangements.

Consequently, a number of leading lawyer directories, such as The European Legal 500 and IFLR 1000 consistently rank LMR among the best Finnish law firms in the area of banking and finance.

Hands-on experience on a large scale

Planning financing deals or corporate mergers and acquisitions in the banking and insurance business is one thing. Their implementation is quite another.

As one lawyer put it: "It is easy to plan things, but it's a totally different game if you have to put yourself on the line." Very true. But our partners have done it. They have been involved in the most significant deals in Finland, including the merger of two of the largest Finnish commercial banks.

Your business or other interest can probably use the kind of expertise that doesn’t stop at writing a memorandum, but goes right through to rolling up the sleeves and doing it.

Here are some of our assignments:

• Frequent representation of international bank syndicates in acquisition finance arrangements

• Advising several clients on a regular basis in connection with their interest rate swap and other derivatives arrangements with Finnish and international parties and related contractual arrangements
• Representing a US industrial group in connection with a syndicated revolving credit facility arranged for its European subsidiaries
• Continuously advising numerous bank syndicates and other foreign lenders in connection with term loans, revolving credits to Finnish corporate borrowers, including senior and mezzanine loans, secured and unsecured facilities
• Advising the issuers and arrangers in connection with share and bond issues, including EMTN programmes for Finnish companies
• Acting for lenders in a number of trade finance transactions involving an ECA