Legal Business Partners
Our Services
We serve as Legal Business Partners for our clients. The legal services and solutions we provide are always aligned with our clients’ business strategies, needs and realities. We offer a holistic, cross-functional and practical service that adds real value.
Our solutions and advice are particularly focused on:
- Strategic and pragmatic advice on all aspects of commercial agreements in both domestic and international business
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements, such as:
- Agency and distribution agreements
- CapEx agreements
- Consultancy agreements
- Consumer contracts
- EMS (electronics manufacturing services) agreements
- Joint development, joint venture and other co-operation agreements
- Licensing agreements
- Non-disclosure agreements
- OEM (original equipment manufacturer) agreements and other manufacturing and outsourcing agreements
- Procurement agreements
- Sales agreements
- Service agreements
- Sub-contracts
- Designing and drafting general terms and conditions and agreement templates
- Designing and drafting tailored guidelines and policies related to contracting
- Training in commercial contracting and contract management
- Digital solutions to improve and bring added value to contracting processes
Our lawyers’ significant in-house experience from a wide range of sectors and industries ensures sharp focus on our clients’ business interests in all contracting matters, whether they are strategic or more operational in nature.
Key contacts:
- Development and administration of compliance processes
- Outsourced compliance solutions
- Compliance programs and policies
- Regulatory monitoring and projects
- Communications, consultations and proceedings with authorities
- GDPR compliance
- Audits
- Internal investigations
- Training
- Digital solutions to support internal compliance functions
Key contacts:
- Advice relating to conflict management and commercial dispute resolution, administrative and corporate criminal proceedings
- Conflict management and dispute resolution strategies
- Prevention of commercial disputes
- Early case assessments
- Liability mitigation
- Early resolution of conflicts through settlement negotiations
- Handling of claims
- Mediation
- Arbitration
- Redemption of minority shares
- Litigation
- Selected corporate criminal matters
- Administrative proceedings
- Training
Key contacts:
- Strategic and pragmatic advice on a wide variety of matters within the construction, real estate, infrastructure and energy sectors – from agreements to transactions and resolution of potential disputes
- Drafting, commenting and negotiating contracts relating to construction, real estate, infrastructure and energy projects
- EPC, EPCM, alliance and joint venture projects
- Advice on commonly used standard forms of contract, such as Finnish YSE and KSE general terms as well as international AB, ABT, FIDIC, JCT, NEC, NL and SSG terms
- Support in procurement, tendering and bidding
- Project structuring, implementation and risk management
- Zoning, real estate formation, land-use and other real estate matters
- Lease and land lease matters
- Real estate transactions and portfolio deals
- Real estate administration, management and service agreements
- Housing and real estate company law
- Infrastructure and public–private partnership (PPP) projects
- Conventional and renewable energy projects and investments
- Support in energy market regulation and incentive schemes
- Energy supply and offtake agreements
- Energy and infrastructure transactions
- Conflict management and claims support in relation to construction, real estate, infrastructure and energy projects
Key contacts:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Legal due diligence review in transactions and investments
- Corporate reorganizations, divestments, spin-offs and restructurings
- Shareholders’ agreements
- Joint ventures and strategic alliances
- Advice on all matters relating to the Finnish Companies Act and other corporate legislation, such as establishing a company, equity arrangements, decision-making and liquidation
- Acting as chairman in annual general meetings and extraordinary general meetings
- Share and share-related incentive schemes
- Advice to boards and management on corporate governance and best practices, fiduciary duties, liability and decision-making
- Acting as board secretary
- Managing corporate records
- Internal governance guidelines and policies
- Digital solutions to support corporate housekeeping
Key contacts:
- Day-to-day advisory in employment matters
- Strategic workforce planning
- Employment and management contracts
- Restructurings
- Terminations of employment (collective and individual)
- Consultation with unions and/or employee representatives
- European Works Council matters
- Workplace investigations
- Non-competition and other restrictive covenants
- Transaction-related employment matters
- Occupational health and safety matters
- Employment-related privacy and intellectual property matters, such as employee inventions and trade secrets
- Litigation
- Training
Key contacts:
- Advice on private equity and venture capital investments, buy-outs, financing rounds and exit strategies
- Term sheet documentation, shareholder agreements and subscription agreements relating to both equity and debt investments
- Legal due diligence review on target companies and investments
- Reviewing and negotiating private equity and venture capital fund primary market investment documents
- Support in sale and transfer of private equity fund interests on the secondary market
- Equity compensation and management incentive schemes
- Support in portfolio restructurings and refinancing
- Pragmatic legal support to portfolio companies
Key contacts:
- ICT, digitalization and outsourcing projects and other technology-related agreements and projects
- Service agreements
- Licensing agreements
- Support in the procurement of cloud-based ERP systems and other technology-related products and services
- Data protection and privacy
- E-commerce and marketing
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Legal Business Partners – Example
Our role as Legal Business Partner is defined together with each client depending on their needs and realities. This role is evolving and flexible, and may include the following elements:
- Close cooperation with key personnel and stakeholders
- Understanding the client’s business, support functions and operating environment
- Acting as a sounding board for the management in operational and strategic matters
- Serving as an easy-to-reach primary point of contact for all or specific legal issues
- Offering proactive legal advice to avoid unnecessary spending of time and money
- Understanding and communicating the risks and opportunities related to the client’s business
- Creating balanced governance and compliance processes to manage legal risks
- Communicating effectively with the client’s internal teams and external parties to ensure timely and efficient delivery
- Representing and supporting the client in negotiations
- Handling and managing the client’s corporate governance matters
- Managing claims and disputes and facilitating amicable resolution of conflicts to maintain business relationships
- Supporting the client in adapting to changes in the regulatory environment
- Training personnel regularly in various legal and compliance issues
- Managing the client’s outside counsel and other advisors
- Working temporarily or regularly at the client’s offices
- Regular reporting as agreed
“We have collaborated closely with Wiidare on numerous cases pertaining to real estate in which we needed legal advice and services. The collaboration has encompassed a myriad of legal issues with widely varying content. In all of the matters handled, Wiidare has demonstrated outstanding proficiency and expertise, as well as flexibility. Their team has been extremely helpful, and they have responded promptly to all our queries. They have provided clear and comprehensive advice that has helped us to make knowledge-based decisions. Above all, we have been pleased to know that we can contact them without any hesitation, regardless of the scale of the case at hand.”
Noora Kuvaja
Investment Director, CapMan Real Estate Oy