Sami Hartikainen
Counsel
Joined Firm: 2021
Languages: English, Finnish, Swedish
+358 (0)9 668 95229
+358 (0)40 721 2729
sami.hartikainen@ww.fi
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Career and qualifications
Waselius & Wist 2021 - (Counsel), Ministry for Foreign Affairs 2010 - 2019, 2021 (Legal Counsellor in EU Litigation Unit), Counsel in another Finnish law firm 2019 - 2020, National Emergency Supply Agency 2020, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment 2006 - 2010 (Senior Adviser in Competition Policy Unit), District Court of Mikkeli 2005 (Trainee District Judge)
Education: University of Turku, LL.M. 2004
Selected experience
* Waselius & Wist advised in the extension of the EUR 5 billion State aid scheme to municipal energy companies approved by the European Commission
* Waselius & Wist advised the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment in a groundbreaking State aid notification procedure
* Waselius & Wist secured the European Commission’s approval for the EUR 5 billion State aid scheme to municipal energy companies;
* Sale of Visma’s IT consulting business to CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII;
* Acquisition by Equitix of Aurora Infrastructure Oy;
* Waselius & Wist successfully represented Ascensia Diabetes Care before the Supreme Administrative Court in a legal precedent case;
* Represented Finland in more than sixty cases before the Court of Justice of the EU covering various fields of EU law
* Case handler in numerous State aid investigations and Infringement proceedings launched by the European Commission
* Advised clients in a wide range of industries in EU and Competition law matters in another Finnish law firm