Aliant Finland attorneys assist foreign companies to do business and invest in Finland and the Nordic region, while also helping Finnish companies with overseas matters. The Finland practice offers the highest quality legal services with the team of experienced and well recognized professionals. 

We assist businesses with commercial transactions and international operations in a diverse collection of industries, including technology, machinery, manufacturing, energy, airline, retail, construction and real estate. We provide corporate law services to our clients and advise them on corporate governance issues. We help high-tech companies in developing tomorrow’s technologies and managing risks arising from intellectual property issues. We represent corporate clients, institutional investors, individuals and others, in acquisitions and other transactions involving the purchase or sale of businesses. We help developers and contractors in the purchase and development of real estate, as well as the construction and leasing of facilities. Our attorneys assist clients in resolving business disputes through negotiation, mediation, arbitration or litigation.   

Aliant Finland was organized in November 2017 when Kauttu & Co joined Aliant. Kauttu & Co was founded from a well-established, Helsinki based law firm that was founded in 1951. 

Tuomo Kauttu is a partner at Aliant, an international law firm, and the head of the Aliant practice in Finland. He specializes in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, IPR, and international business transactions. Mr. Kauttu graduated from the University of Helsinki with a Master of Laws degree and received his postgraduate LL.M. from the University of Washington. The focus of the LL.M. program was on corporate law and corporate taxation, mergers & acquisitions, investments, and business planning.

Over the past 25 years Mr. Kauttu has worked on over a thousand business transactions or deals. He has represented businesses of all sizes engaging in cross border transactions, and international projects and investments in a diverse range of industries, including technology,      machinery, manufacturing, healthcare, clean-tech, energy, airline, and real estate. He has represented corporate clients and institutional investors in acquisitions and other transactions involving the purchase or sale of businesses or commercial real estate. Beyond transactions, Mr. Kauttu has advised various forms of business entities on corporate law and governance issues, and has helped high-tech companies with legal issues in developing tomorrow’s technologies and managing risks arising from intellectual property issues.

After graduating and court training, Mr. Kauttu worked for a bank, specializing in corporate finance. Subsequently, he worked as an attorney intern at a New York law firm for one year. Since 1996, he has practiced business law in Helsinki.

Mr. Kauttu is a member of the Finnish Bar Association and an associate member of the American Bar Association (ABA), being involved in the professional work of the ABA International Business Law Committee and Committee on Mergers and Acquisitions. He is             also an expert member in the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Commission on Commercial Law and Practice. Mr. Kauttu is elected to a position of trust in the Industry Committee of Helsinki Region Chamber of Commerce. He is an alumni member of the            Boardman Ltd, a leading non-profit network, developing active ownership and board work competences in Finland.

Mr. Kauttu has written numerous professional articles, and has lectured at various institutes in Finland and abroad.