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Harri Tolppanen

Partner
Attorney-at-Law, Chairman of the Board

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Languages: Finnish, English, Swedish, German

Harri Tolppanen

Harri is a Partner who has over 25 years of extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, contract and company law, financing, securities and taxation.

Harri has extensive experience in M&A and he has taken care of hundreds of both domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, investments and corporate transactions and their financing solutions, corporate restructurings, as well as related complex legal questions pertaining especially to company and contract law.

Speeding up the growth of companies with quick successive corporate transactions with consolidation is one of Harri’s specialties.

Harri advises both listed and unlisted companies and their owners in legal matters. He has also acted and currently acts as a member of the boards of many companies operating in various different business sectors.

Business and solution oriented, clear and comprehensive advice and stringent project management are key to Harri's approach.

Harri’s motto is: "Jurisprudence is interesting, but the use of common sense is permitted –sometimes even recommended."

Harri has acted on a number of major transactions, including:

  • advising the owners of the Viher-Pirkka Oy, a Helsinki based landscaping company, in a transaction where the company’s shares were sold to the Swedish Green Landscaping Group Ab, a company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (GREEN)
  • advising Relais Group Oyj, listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market, as it acquired Lumise Oy and Optisell Oy
  • acting as advisor to Revenio Group Plc, which is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki, when it signed an agreement to purchase 100% of the share of the Australian CERA Technologies Pty Ltd (Oculo)
  • representing Digitalist Group Plc when it sold 30% of its subsidiary Digitalist Sweden AB to key personnel and acquired company shares in a targeted acquisition as part of the overall arrangement
  • acting for the German holding company Mutares SE & Co KGaA in its acquisition of the Swedish and Finnish Road Services Business from NCC AB (publ)
  • advising Kaiku Health Oy in a share transaction in which all of the shares of Kaiku Health Oy were acquired by Elekta AB, a company listed on the Stockholm stock exchange
  • advising the sellers in transaction in which companies and functions belonging to Myllyn Paras –group were sold to equity fund managed by Sponsor Capital

Eversheds Attorneys Ltd, Chairman of the Board, 2019-
Eversheds Attorneys Ltd, Partner, 2018–
Eversheds Attorneys Ltd, Managing Partner, 2015–2018
Attorneys JB Eversheds Ltd, Managing Partner, 2014–2015
Attorneys-at-Law Juridia Bützow Ltd, Managing Partner, 2013–2014
Bützow Ltd, Managing Partner, 2009–2013
Attorneys Kallioinen, Tolppanen, Salminen & Co Oy, Managing Partner, 1993–2008
Practised law in different law firms, 1989–1993

Member of the Bar, 1993
Trained on the Bench, 1992
Master of Law, University of Helsinki, 1989

Harri Tolppanen
Harri Tolppanen

Partner

Attorney-at-Law, Chairman of the Board

Harri Tolppanen
Harri Tolppanen

Partner

Attorney-at-Law, Chairman of the Board

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