Finance & Restructuring

We act for corporate borrowers and investors at all levels of the capital structure, creditors in general, as well as companies in financial difficulties. We also regularly advise shareholders and management in a debtor’s insolvency proceedings or distress finance situations.

Our services include regulatory work as well as a variety of banking and finance transactions including:

Advising creditors, banks, institutes and financial sponsors in restructurings, as well as in formal and informal insolvency proceedings
Advising on bank financing, including acquisition, real estate, asset, export, funds, business and other loan financing
Acting as bankruptcy trustees, administrators of company reorganisations and liquidators
Representing boards of directors both in domestic and cross-border insolvency situations, as well as in personal liability issues

Advising in insolvency disputes, such as recovery in bankruptcy and other procedural legal issues
Advising on securitisations, secured bonds and other types of asset-based finance
Advising companies looking to invest in or acquire a distressed or otherwise troubled business

Our team takes pride in understanding our client’s business and we always strive to accomplish a straightforward solution benefitting our client.

Contact persons

Andrei Aganimov

Managing Partner

Andrei specializes in banking and finance. He has broad and extensive experience in acting both for financial institutions as well as for companies and investors in leveraged and structured finance, project finance, acquisition finance, corporate restructuring and ship finance. In addition, Andrei specializes in mergers & acquisitions, corporate law, joint ventures, investments, securities law and corporate commercial. Before joining the firm, Andrei was for several years a partner and head of the financing practice at Borenius Attorneys Ltd where his services covered all aspects of banking and finance. Before that, he was at Nordea Bank for ten years, mainly focusing on leveraged and structured finance as well as ship finance. Andrei has been highly ranked in all major legal rankings for a number of years.

Leif Itäinen

Partner

Leif advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, general corporate matters, restructuring and insolvency matters, litigation and dispute resolution, as well as on real estate, construction and maritime law. He has served as trustee in numerous bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings, and his expertise in the field is recognized by legal directories such as Chambers Europe. Leif also advises private individuals and families on the preservation and transfer of wealth.

What we’ve done so far

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Alteams Oy

Finance & Restructuring

We advised Alteams Oy in connection with the refinancing arrangements of the Alteams Group. Alteams Group offers innovative thermal management and aluminium casting solutions, and it has several factories around the world, including Finland, China, Poland and joint ventrure in India. Alteams Group is part of the Kuusakoski Group.

Huld Oy

Finance & Restructuring

We advised technology and design house Huld Oy in the financing of the acquisition of software development house Devatus Oy. After the acquisition, Huld employs over five hundred people in Finland and Czechia. The combined turnover of the two companies is over forty million euros.

HopLop

Banking & Finance

We advised the senior lenders in the acquisition of the HopLop Group by CapMan Special Situations. HopLop is a Finnish indoor adventure park company with multiple parks throughout Finland.