Matti Ylä-Mononen

Partner
Matti Ylä-Mononen
Location
Helsinki
Language
English, Finnish, Swedish
Services

Matti Ylä-Mononen is an experienced Corporate / M&A lawyer and people leader with more than 25 years' experience on advising Finnish and international clients on a broad variety of transactions, strategic projects and general corporate and commercial work including private and public M&A, Private Equity, and Venture Capital investments, MBO's, MIPs´, financing, capital markets, and commercial agreements. 

Matti has acquired insight in several business sectors such as Technology, Food and Retail, Financial Services, Energy, Infrastructure, and Media.   

During his career Matti has served in various law firm leadership positions locally and internationally, most recently (2017-2022) as the Managing Partner in DLA Piper Finland and as a member of the Nordic Management Group and the Board of DLA Piper in the Nordics.  

Matti has been acknowledged as one of the top M&A and capital markets experts in Finland in all leading international legal directories. 

Credentials
Education
  • Court training, 1993 to 1994
  • University of Helsinki, Master of Laws, 1991
Memberships
  • Finnish Bar Association
  • Finnish Businessmen’s Association
  • International Bar Association
Experience
Prior Experience
  • 2017 to 2022, Managing Partner, DLA Piper Finland 
  • 2008 to 2017, Partner, Head of Corporate (Finland and Nordics), international law firm
  • 2005 to 2008, Partner, Head of Corporate, Finnish law firm
  • 1998 to 2005, Partner, Finnish law firm
  • 1994 to 1997, Senior Associate, Finnish law firm
Selected recent references
  • Advising Grade AB in connection with its acquisition of FCG Digital Oy
  • Advising MANN+HUMMEL with its strategic investment in M-Filter Group
  • Advising Sponsor Capital on the contemplated sale of Myllyn Paras group
  • Advising Bregal Milestone as the lead investor on a strategic growth investment of US$80 million (€67 million) in M-Files 
  • Advising Bregal Milestone on its strategic investment to ePassi Payments Oy 
  • Advising international private equity investor AAC Capital and a private equity fund managed by it in all legal aspects relating to the sale of its portfolio company Ouman Oy (including also Ouman´s group companies in Sweden, Estonia and Russia) to a Swedish based Ernströmgruppen AB  
  • Advising Lindström Group on the sale of personal protective equipment business to TOOLS Finland Oy 
  • Advising AddSecure on the purchase of safety phone business on Stella Care Oy 
  • Advising Avidly (formerly Zeeland Family) on acquisition of HubSpot services provider
  • Advising Dutch-based specialist in energy solutions for the future, Alfen, on its acquisition of Elkamo, a developer and manufacturer of electricity distribution systems based in Finland 
  • Advising AddSecure on the purchase of Alerta business from Telia
  • Advising sellers relating to the sale of the Hosting Group Oy to one.com
  • Advising Sponsor Capital on the purchase of Myllyn Paras group

 

Rankings
Chambers Global
  • Endorsed in Chambers Global 2018
  • Endorsed in Chambers Global 2019
  • Endorsed in Chambers Global 2020
  • Endorsed in Chambers Global 2021
  • Endorsed in Chambers Global 2022
  • Endorsed in Chambers Global 2023
  • Endorsed in Chambers Global 2024
Chambers Europe
  • Endorsed in Chambers Europe 2018
  • Endorsed in Chambers Europe 2019
  • Endorsed in Chambers Europe 2020
  • Endorsed in Chambers Europe 2021
  • Endorsed in Chambers Europe 2022
  • Endorsed in Chambers Europe 2023
  • Endorsed in Chambers Europe 2024
Legal 500
  • Endorsed in Legal 500 EMEA 2019
  • Endorsed in Legal 500 EMEA 2020
  • Endorsed in Legal 500 EMEA 2021
  • Endorsed in Legal 500 EMEA 2022
  • Endorsed in Legal 500 EMEA 2023
  • Endorsed in Legal 500 EMEA 2024
IFLR 1000
  • Endorsed in IFLR 1000 2020
  • Endorsed in IFLR 1000 2021
  • Endorsed in IFLR 1000 2022
  • Endorsed in IFLR 1000 2023
  • Endorsed in IFLR 1000 2024
  • Endorsed in IFLR 1000 2025