Vesa has years of experience in advising our domestic and international clients on a wide spectrum of matters related to transactions, international business and corporate law.
Vesa specializes in corporate transactions and M&A, international trade and contracts, as well as dispute resolution, often with a cross-border element.
Vesa has accumulated considerable experience in dispute resolution and arbitration especially in matters concerning disputes and corporate transactions in international trade. He also focuses on private equity investments and growth financing.
Vesa has long experience in corporate compliance matters while having served as a member of different boards of directors within various companies and currently advising a variety of companies and owner-managed businesses in such matters.
In arbitration proceedings, Vesa has acted as an advisor to various parties and as an arbitrator in numerous significant contract disputes.
Vesa is a sought-after trainer and lecturer in the field of corporate compliance, international trade and corporate acquisitions.
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- Vesa is the local client partner of several Eversheds Sutherland centrally managed clients in wide spectrum of their legal affairs in Finland including transaction and corporate advisory.
- Eversheds Attorneys Ltd, Partner, 2015–
- Attorneys JB Eversheds Ltd, Partner, 2014–2015
- Attorneys-at-Law Juridia Bützow Ltd, Partner 2013–2014
- Bützow Attorneys Ltd, Partner, Chairman of the Board, 2010–2013
- Procopé & Hornborg Ltd, Attorneys at Law, Managing Partner, 2007–2010
- Attorneys-at-Law Prudentum Ltd, Founding Partner, Chairman of the Board, 2000–2007
- Salvén & Wuorenpää Law Firm Ltd, Partner, 1996–1999
- Procopé & Hornborg Ltd, Attorneys at Law, Senior Associate, 1993–1995
Secondments and International career:
- Eversheds Sutherland (Europe); member of the Executive Committee, 2015–2019
- Eversheds Sutherland (Europe); member of the Board, 2014–
- EU-Japan Industrial cooperation; Executive training program to Asia EU trade and business; Tokyo 2001
- Center for International dispute resolution CERD International mediator training program; Lausanne 1999
- Wessing, Berenberg - Gossler, Zimmerman & Lange; Brussels 1996
- Gilbert, Segal & Young LLP (now Holland & Knight); New York 1996
- Barens & Krans Advocaten & Notarissen; Hague 1995
Memberships:
- The Finnish Bar Association
- AMCHAM Finland, (Founding member)
- Accredited Mediator of the Finnish Bar Association
- IBA – International Bar Association
- Suomen kanssayrittäjät SKY ry (Finnish Co-Entrepreneurs Assn), Member of the Board 2009–2010
- Transparency Finland, Member of the Board 2010–2011
- Tampere Chamber of Commerce, Law and Taxation Committee 2004–2011
- Tampere Chamber of Commerce, New Business Committee 2003–
- FiBAN – Finland (Finnish Business Angels Network)
- Hallituspartnerit ry ("Association of Board Professionals") 2020-
- Attorney-at-Law, 1996
- Trained on the Bench, 1993
- Master of Laws, University of Turku, 1992