Finland

Our lawyers work together across a spectrum of practices to provide Finnish companies with the US-based legal services they need, including business counseling and fund formation recommendations. ArentFox Schiff partner Jon Jurva also serves as Finland’s Honorary Consul in Chicago (jurisdiction includes Illinois and Wisconsin), bringing valuable insights to the team.

Our Focus

Corporate & Securities

No company is the same. As trusted corporate advisors, our lawyers bring solutions to clients operating in complex industries with constantly changing landscapes. We assist in an array of matters, including capital market transactions, joint ventures, private and public offerings of equity and debt, securities compliance, and corporate governance.

Business Counseling

Our corporate attorneys act as outside general counsel for many of our business clients while supporting the legal department for clients with in-house legal capabilities. We advise our Finnish clients on the diverse issues arising from doing business in today’s competitive US business environment. We offer advice on a broad range of contract, conflict resolution, employment, intellectual property, and other matters that arise. To provide the best service to our clients, we learn as much as possible about the people and operations that make their business unique – and then apply this knowledge to our ongoing representation.

Fund Formation

ArentFox Schiff’s fund formation team represents buyout, real estate, private debt, insurance, and venture capital funds, as well as funds of funds. We provide legal solutions to our clients as they form and launch their funds. We provide our private fund clients with comprehensive and innovative legal solutions in the fund formation and investment management space. Like our clients, we take a multi-disciplinary approach to our work, organizing ourselves into service teams dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of each client. In addition to delivering cost efficiencies, this approach allows us to bring particular — and relevant — industry expertise to our engagements.

Antitrust

ArentFox Schiff lawyers are well equipped to support Finnish companies in US antitrust matters. Our experience in antitrust law and regulation and our extensive industry knowledge enable us to provide effective insight and practical counseling. We work closely with client teams to develop tailored, cost-effective strategies for their antitrust challenges. Our track record of success speaks for itself.

Commercial Contracts

We offer advice on distribution, license, and supply agreements. In all these matters, we work closely with colleagues in our tax, intellectual property, and international trade practices to provide an integrated approach to address our clients’ needs. We are well equipped to support Finnish clients in these matters as needed.

Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)

We advise on transactions involving critical infrastructure, critical technologies, sensitive personal data, and real estate, including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments, and private equity transactions. We can guide Finnish clients through the regulatory implications of various transactions and regularly prepare joint voluntary notice and declaration filings for CFIUS review.

Environmental

Complex business problems frequently involve the environment. Our clients turn to ArentFox Schiff’s Environmental Group because we have the in-depth knowledge to simplify problems and find workable solutions, even those on the cutting edge of new law and novel litigation. We bring a strategic and practical approach to the issues, promoting trust with our clients.

Immigration

ArentFox Schiff’s Immigration practice provides a high level of service in all areas of business immigration law. In addition to obtaining temporary work visas and green cards, we work with our clients to develop immigration policies and practices and proactively audit clients’ practices to ensure compliance. We utilize sophisticated case management and tracking data systems to provide superior value at competitive flat-rate fees.

Intellectual Property

ArentFox Schiff is one of the few go-to firms for novel and high-profile intellectual property issues. Clients seek us out for our creativity and business approach to their legal issues. With approximately 100 full-time IP professionals, we offer a full range of services related to acquiring, enforcing, and commercially exploiting IP rights and assets.

Institutional Investors

ArentFox Schiff’s Institutional Investors group counsels foundations, endowments, family offices, insurance companies, public pension plans, funds-of-funds, and strategic corporate clients with investments in the full range of public and private asset classes, typical of large, diversified portfolios. We offer comprehensive services to support our institutional investor clients in the global deployment of capital, establishing contractual relationships with investment managers and other service providers, administrating investment portfolios, and ongoing compliance requirements.

International Trade & Investment

We can support Finnish clients in an array of trade-related legal services. We advise clients on customs/import compliance, global trade policy, international trade litigation, export controls and sanctions, international anti-corruption, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

Nonprofits & Associations

ArentFox Schiff has served as the go-to law firm for tax-exempt organizations across the nonprofit sector for over 70 years. We provide cost-effective, practical, business-oriented solutions to address all of our nonprofit clients’ needs, advising on the regulatory, operational, programmatic, and transactional considerations that are unique to their status as nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations in addition to those considerations that apply equally to for-profit, taxable organizations. We are well prepared to assist Finnish nonprofits and associations as needed.

Product Liability & Mass Torts

The ArentFox Schiff Product Liability and Mass Torts Group comprises 30 lawyers solely devoted to helping clients face bet-the-company litigation against some of the most well-financed and formidable plaintiffs’ lawyers in the United States. Our lawyers try and win cases in some of the most plaintiff-friendly and inhospitable jurisdictions in the country. When our clients ask us to create an exit strategy, we are equally adept at negotiating cutting-edge solutions to eliminate product liability and mass torts risk.

Real Estate

With more than 100 attorneys focused on the real estate industry, ArentFox Schiff is recognized nationally for its work representing capital investors, developers, owners, lenders, and REITs in real estate finance, joint venture, leasing, development, and acquisition and disposition matters on both an individual asset and portfolio basis, in virtually all asset classes. We assist Finnish clients with their US real estate-related questions.

Tax

ArentFox Schiff provides a wealth of services concerning the impact of tax structures on our clients’ diversified financial goals. Our tax professionals employ practical business judgment and technical experience to ensure optimal results in the areas of corporate tax, international tax, estates and trusts, real estate tax, and tax controversy.

Focus Areas

• Corporate & Securities
• Business Counseling
• Fund Formation
• Antitrust
• Commercial Contracts
• Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
• Environmental
• Immigration
• Intellectual Property
• Institutional Investors
• International Trade & Investment
• Nonprofits & Associations
• Product Liability & Mass Torts
• Real Estate
• Tax 

What We Do

• Advise Finnish companies on US corporate, securities, and governance matters, including capital markets activity and joint ventures.
• Provide business counseling on contracts, employment, intellectual property, and dispute considerations arising from US operations.
• Support the formation and launch of private investment funds, including buyout, real estate, private debt, and venture capital structures.
• Counsel on US antitrust risk, compliance considerations, and regulatory strategy.
• Advise on commercial agreements, including distribution, licensing, and supply arrangements.
• Guide transactions subject to CFIUS review, including preparation of voluntary notices and declarations where appropriate.
• Address environmental compliance, regulatory risk, and emerging environmental issues.
• Advise on US business immigration matters, including visas, permanent residency, and compliance practices.
• Counsel on the acquisition, protection, enforcement, and commercialization of intellectual property.
• Support institutional investors in the deployment of capital and ongoing compliance obligations.
• Advise on international trade, customs, export controls, sanctions, and anti‑corruption compliance.
• Counsel nonprofits and associations on regulatory, governance, and transactional matters.
• Defend and advise on product liability and mass tort exposure.
• Advise on US real estate transactions, financing, development, and portfolio matters.
• Provide tax guidance across corporate, international, real estate, and controversy matters.

Who Do We Help

• Finnish companies operating or investing in the United States.
• Finnish investment funds and institutional investors.
• Finnish startups and growth‑stage businesses entering US markets.
• Finnish nonprofits and associations with US activities.
• Finnish real estate investors and developers.

Frequently Asked Questions 

How does ArentFox Schiff support Finnish companies entering the US market?
We advise on the legal, regulatory, and operational considerations that arise when Finnish companies establish or expand US operations, coordinating guidance across relevant practice areas.

What US regulatory issues commonly affect Finnish investments?
Depending on the transaction and industry, these may include securities regulation, antitrust considerations, CFIUS review, trade compliance, tax structuring, and sector‑specific regulatory requirements.

Can ArentFox Schiff assist with US workforce and immigration matters?
Yes. Our immigration lawyers advise on business visas, permanent residency, compliance practices, and workforce planning for Finnish companies with US personnel.

Does the firm advise Finnish investors across asset classes?
We counsel institutional investors and investment funds on the deployment of capital across public and private asset classes, including structuring, documentation, and ongoing compliance considerations.