Mergers & Acquisitions

Our firm's assignments encompass a broad spectrum of Mergers & Acquisitions work, including auction processes, negotiated deals, joint ventures, carve-outs, share transfers, and asset deals. Our client base comprises industrials, private equity firms, and late-phase startups. Our business lawyers possess extensive experience and deliver pragmatic, commercial advice to support and execute our clients' strategic objectives at every stage of their corporate lifecycle.

We regularly advise clients on M&A in the following industries:

Construction
Shipping, maritime and transport
Health care
Machine and equipment rental
Wood and timber industry, etc.

In Finland most common deal structure is private share purchase

The Firm’s view is that the most common Mergers & Acquisitions deal structure is the private share purchase. Under such structure all the assets and liabilities of the target remain with the company and only the shares in the target corporate transfer to the purchaser. Therefore, the private share purchase is often understood as the simplest form of transaction. This is due to the reason that there is no need to agree on the transfer of individual assets, liabilities, contracts or employees between the seller and the purchaser.

Acquisition of a business

The purpose of acquisition of a business is principally to acquire a certain part of business and/or assets, while limiting the purchaser’s assumption of risk. Therefore, generally it is the purchaser’s interest to carry out a comprehensive due diligence investigation when acquiring a business. By this way can be identified the assets and rights of the target that should be transferred. Moreover, it is perhaps more important to identify the liabilities to be assumed and those that should be left outside the acquisition.

Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances

In Finland there is no specific legislation enacting the establishment or operations of joint ventures or strategic alliances. Therefore, the general principles of Finnish contract law and company law are applicable.

Digitalisation

The Firm is having an ERP system where the full M&A work can be organised and executed in the Firms platform. By this way all documentation, correspondence as well as due diligence reporting can be done in a one place. This provides transparency to the process as the client and the other party can access the platform and all material can be found at one place. This is particularly helpful when our Firm has a project management role in multijurisdictional transactions but it also enables us to efficiently handle smaller matters and add-on acquisitions.

Our business lawyers advise, draft and negotiate domestic and international purchase as well as sale agreements. Our Firm is vetted for practical and business orientated advise in relation to all aspects of Mergers & Acquisitions.

LKOS Law Office maintains a well-established, yet independent, collaboration with numerous leading international law firms. This collaboration allows the Firm to offer to our clients the business lawyer or business law firm best suited to address the client's specific need in each case. With such collaboration our Firm can swiftly and efficiently meet the need for top-tier legal advice across all global jurisdictions.