Tarja Wist

Practice Areas: Banking and Finance; Capital Markets; Mergers and Acquisitions

 

Position: Founding Partner
Joined Firm: 1997
Education: University of Helsinki, LL.M. 1989

Languages: Finnish, Swedish, English and German
Telephone: +358 (0)9 668 95233
Mobile: +358 (0)40 522 6509
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Recent involvements:

* Placing of new shares of Talvivaara Mining Company Ltd;
* Acquisition by RUSNANO of OptoGaN Group;
* Acquisition by Eniro Finland of Sentraali Oy;
* Acquisition by Nordic Capital of CPS Color;
* Rights issue by Technopolis Plc;
* Acquisition by JPMorgan of Nordea Global Custody Business; * Public tender offer by Borse Dubai for shares of OMX AB

Recognitions:

* Recommended as leading lawyer in the fields of Banking and Finance and Capital Markets by Chambers Europe
* Recommended as leading lawyer in the field of Capital Markets and M&A by IFLR1000
* Recommended as leading lawyer in the field of Capital Markets by PLC Which Lawyer
* Recommended as leading lawyer in the fields of Capital Markets, Banking, M&A and Project Finance by the Euromoney Legal Experts.

Member:

Finnish Bar Association: chair of the Securities and Finance Law Expert Group; International Bar Association: co-chair of the Banking Law Committee

Previous Experience:

Member of the Legislative Working Group for the Securities Law Reform 2009- ; Member of the Legislative Working Group for the Implementation of the Takeover Directive 2004-2005; Roschier-Holmberg & Waselius 1989-1997; Secretary to the Legislative Commission for Securities Market Legislation 1990-1993; Trainee at Rechtsanwaltskanzlei Schmidt, Wiederman und Hintermayer, Nürnberg, Germany, 1988