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Johan Wesander

Managing Partner
Attorney-at-Law, Co-head of M&A, Head of Corporate Secretarial Services

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Languages: Finnish, English, Swedish

Johan is a Managing Partner in our M&A and Corporate group, specializing in domestic and international transactions and issues related to company law. 

Johan is a co-head of our M&A group and is one of our leading M&A practitioners, regarding transactions linked to cross-border elements. Johan is an active member of our Nordic-Baltic group and works actively together with the international Eversheds Sutherland network advising clients in cross-border corporate work and especially with the Eversheds Sutherland Sweden.

Johan is also head of our Corporate Secretarial Services team.


Examples of Johan’s global key clients include a leading technology company, a retail company within consumer goods and a B2B finance company.


Johan has been on secondments to Eversheds Sutherland’s Swedish office in 2017 and to a client within the financial sector in 2016.


Johan is practical and solution-oriented in his work also emphasizing the commercial and business aspects.

Johan's recent transactions includes:

  • acting for the shareholder of Koiviston Auto in a share sale of the Koiviston Auto group to CapMan Infra

  • acting for Korona Fund III and its minority shareholders in the sale of the majority of shares in Normiopaste Oy to Söderbergföretagen

  • acting for the shareholders of Arkkitehdit Soini & Horto Oy and its parent company KSH Investment Oy in the sale of all shares to a NewCo managed by Intera Partners

  • acting for Atos International B.V. acquiring all shares in Ideal Product Data Oy (joint project with Eversheds Sutherland France)

  • acting for Kiinteistömaailma Oy acquiring together with the operative management all shares of Ober-Haus Real Estate Advisors 

  • advising PiezoMotor Uppsala AB (publ.) acquiring all shares of Sensapex Oy (joint project with Eversheds Sutherland Sweden)

  • acting for Avara Oy selling all shares in Avara Isännöinti Oy to Intera Partners

Eversheds Attorneys Ltd, Partner, 2019–
Eversheds Attorneys Ltd, Senior Associate, 2015–2019
Attorneys JB Eversheds Ltd, Associate, 2014–2015
Attorneys-at-Law Juridia Bützow Ltd, Associate, 2013–2014
Attorneys-at-Law Juridia Ltd, Associate, 2011–2013
Ålandsbanken Plc, Legal Controller, 2008–2010

 

Positions of Trust

  • British & Commonwealth Chamber of Commerce in Finland (B3CF), Board member, 2019-
  • Elfvings Stiftelse sr, Board member, 2021-

 

Memberships

  • Member of the Finnish Bar Association
  • Juridiska Föreningen i Finland (JFF)
  • Helsinki Bourse Club

Master of Laws, University of Helsinki, 2011

Johan Wesander

Managing Partner

Attorney-at-Law, Co-head of M&A, Head of Corporate Secretarial Services

Johan Wesander

Managing Partner

Attorney-at-Law, Co-head of M&A, Head of Corporate Secretarial Services

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