Matti Ylä-Mononen, Partner

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