Jukka-Pekka is a Senior Advisor who is specialised in technology, international trade, financing, M&A, restructuring and insolvency.
Jukka-Pekka is a truly strategic advisor due to his expertise in building, designing and leading large infrastructure and investment projects and experience in complex corporate and turnaround matters. Jukka-Pekka is also highly regarded within communications and competition law and technology.
Jukka-Pekka has been actively developing new technologies and is acting as lead advisor for companies building a European digital platform.
Previously he has advised Finnish government and institutional investors in build-out of Sea Lion data cable between Finland and Germany and developing Nordic region a major data hub with large scale data center investments. This has been one of the key strategic investments in the Nordic region and legal advice consisted of successful state aid notification to the European Commission, structuring a data infrastructure and services company Corenet together with new investments and creating a new entity Cinia. Currently Jukka-Pekka has also advised financial investors in data center development with several other investment initiatives.
Jukka-Pekka’s recent experience includes:
- representing Cimec Oy when it signed the purchase agreement and ancillary agreements in an arrangement through which Cimec Oy acquired the lifter business of Glaston Oyj's German subsidiary Glaston Germany GmbH
- acting as lead partner to complete an arrangement to privatise ENF airport and plan a truly digitalized platform for airport management, air traffic control and operation and management of the airport
- advising Sunduka on the strategic path to create a global platform and bringing Rich Call Standard (RCS) application together with the developed patent portfolio to the attention for big international players
- Legal 500 EMEA 2024
Eversheds Attorneys Ltd., Senior Advisor, 2024-
Eversheds Attorneys Ltd., Partner, 2018-2024
Cinia, Executive Advisor, 2017-
Cinia, Executive Vice President, 2014-2017
PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd., Partner and COO, 2009-2014
TDC, Vice President, 2004-2009
Song Networks, General Counsel, 2002 -2004
Saunalahti/Jippii Group, General Counsel 2000-2001
Telia, Interconnection Manager, Legal Counsel, 1998-2000
Positions of trust:
- Chairman at Administer Oy, Unified Chargers Oy and Destination Lapland
- Several board positions
- Past member of Global board of Trustees for Turnaround Management Association
- Member of Communications Committee of the International Bar Association, served as Chairman for the committee during 2016-2017
Memberships:
- Finnish Bar Association
- International Bar Association
Member of the Bar, 2018
Master of Laws, University of Turku, 1995
Senior Breakthrough Executive Program, IMD, 2006