Mikko Larvala, Head of Real Estate

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Mikko Larvala

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Head of Real Estate

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Helsinki

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+358 9 4176 030

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English, Finnish, Swedish, German

mikko.larvala@fi.dlapiper.com

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Mikko Larvala practices in Real Estate and Financial Services. He has vast experience in real estate, including transactions, development, construction and financing.

Mikko acts for institutions, private equity investors, real estate developers, and borrower and lender clients within the real estate sector. He also advises Capital Markets clients.

Before becoming an attorney, he held several management positions in international banks and real estate investment companies.

Chambers Europe ranks Mikko among Finland's leading legal experts in real estate law.

Credentials

Education

Court training, 1997 to 1998
University of Jyväskylä, Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration (Accounting and Finance), 1998
University of Turku, Master of Laws, 1992

Memberships

Finnish Bar Association

Experience

Prior Experience

2012 to 2017, Senior Counsel, international law firm
2010 to 2012, CFO, Finnish real estate investment firm
2009 to 2010, Partner, PCA Corporate Finance
2005 to 2009, General Manager / Head of Sales Finland and Baltics, HSH Nordbank AG, Finnish branch
2004 to 2005, Vice President, Aareal Bank AG, Swedish branch, Stockholm
1993 to 2004, various expert and management positions in Finnish and foreign banks

Selected recent references

Advising Castlelake, L.P. on the establishment of a joint venture with SBB (2024)
Advising Redeve on the sale of a property in Myllykoski, Kouvola, to data centre services company atNorth (2023)
Advising Helsingin Kulttuurihub Oy on purchase of Helsinki House of Culture (2022)
Advising Develo Oy in sale of Asunto Oy Tampereen Pikku-Aleksi apartments in Tampere, Finland (2021)
Advising Corum Eurion in acquisition of Metso Outotec main office building in Espoo (2021)
Advising infrastructure fund controlled by Equitix in acquisition of parking property in Helsinki (2021)
Advising Asuntoyhtymä Group Oy and Develo Oy in aquisition of apartment plots in Turku, Finland (2021)
Advising VVT Property Fund II Ky in acquisition of logistics center to be built in Turku, Finland (2021)
Advising lenders in financing of Finland’s largest hotel construction project (2021)
Advising Trevian Funds AIFM on new carbon sink fund (2020)