Salla Tuominen, Head of Corporate, Finland

Salla Tuominen’s practice includes capital markets, public takeovers and other domestic and cross-border M&A transactions involving both public and private corporations. She is also experienced in advising on, and negotiating venture capital and private equity transactions. She actively participates in startup ecosystem and advises both startup companies and investors. Salla also has experience of a wide variety of banking and finance work and financial regulatory issues.

Salla has in-depth knowledge of corporate governance and compliance. She is experienced in advising clients in various ESG matters such as, business and human rights. Salla represents our Nordic offices in DLA Piper's Sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance steering group. She is also Helsinki office's responsible pro bono partner and representative of Iris, DLA Piper’s LGBT+ network.

Credentials

Education

Trained at the Bench, District Court of Helsinki, 2004
Master of Laws, University of Helsinki, 2002

Memberships

Finnish Bar Association
Finnish Company Law Association
The Finnish Corporate Responsibility Law Association

Experience

Prior Experience

2017 to 2019, Senior Counsel, DLA Piper Finland Attorneys Ltd.
2008 to 2017, Associate/Senior Associate/Counsel, Another international law firm
2006 to 2008, Associate, Another international law firm
2004 to 2006, Legal Counsel, OMX Exchanges Ltd
2003 to 2004, Notary, District Court of Helsinki
2002 to 2003, Legal Counsel, OMX Exchanges Ltd

Selected recent references

Advised Solar Foods on its listing on the Nasdaq First North (2024)
Advised Helsinki Shipyard Oy, a leading provider of icebreaking vessels and other ships for arctic use in the sale of its business to Davie Group, Canada's leading shipbuilder and a global leader in the delivery of specialised, mission-critical vessels to government and commercial customers (2023)
Advised Gorilla Capital Management Oy on the first closing of Gorilla Capital Fund III Ky, a venture capital fund focused on early stage technology enabled companinies (2023)
Advised NFT.VC Fund I Ky in the investment in PaRAS Aqua Oy, commercializer of Partial air-driven Recirculation Aquaculture System (2023)
Advised Saari I Ky in the sale of all shares in Cervi Talotekniikka Oy, a specialist in ventilation, clean indoor air and cooling to fund of Intera Partners (2022)
Advised Avidly Plc, a leading MarTech service provider, on the public takeover of Avidly Plc by Adelis (2022)
Advised Digital 9 Infrastructure plc in the acquisition of Ficolo Oy, a leading Finnish data centre and cloud services platform with three data centres in Finland, for a total consideration of EUR 135 million (2022)
Advised Saari Partners, a fund manager for Saari I private equity fund in its investment in the Finnish application development agency Geniem, becoming the majority shareholder of the company (2022)
Advised Avidly Plc, a leading MarTech service provider, in its acquisition of Digital 22 Online Limited and related listing of additional shares on the Nasdaq First North Growth marketplace in Helsinki (2022)
Advised Nordic Food Tech Venture Capital Oy on the subsequent and final closing of NFT.VC Fund I Ky, a venture capital fund focused on start-ups specialising in the FutureFood and FoodTech areas (2021)
Advised Saari Partners on the investment in Navix together with its current management, aiming to capture growth in the European markets (2021)
Advised Wulff Group Plc (Nasdaq: WUF1V), a professional in work environment products and services, on its acquisition of other leading player in the field, Staples Finland Oy and its Finnish parent company EMO Finland Oy (2021)
Advised Avient Corporation in the acquisition of PrePerm business from Premix Oy (2021)
Advised AddSecure, a leading European provider of premium solutions for secure data and critical communications, on its acquisition of Telia’s Alerta business from Telia Finland (2021)
Advised PPG Industries on the EUR1.5 billion public tender offer for all shares in Tikkurila (2020)
Advised Polhem Infra on its acquisition of Telia Carrier. Polhem Infra have entered into a binding agreement to acquire Telia Carrier, a world leading provider in back-bone connectivity for data traffic. With the acquisition, Polhem Infra will, through Telia Carrier, own and operate more than 74,000 km of fiber network with 320 connection points in the world. (2020)
Advised Enersense International Oyj on the acquisition of all shares of Empower Oyj and in related directed share issue (2020)
Advised Nordic Food Tech Venture Capital Oy on the first closing of NFT.VC Fund I Ky (‘The Fund’), a venture capital fund focused on start-ups specialising in the FutureFood and FoodTech areas. The Fund, managed by Nordic Food Tech Venture Capital Oy, raised EUR 24.55 million from institutional and private investors such as Business Finland Venture Capital Oy. Several investors work in the food field such as HKScan Corporation. The Fund will start investing with a capital of EUR 24.55 million. The total target is an investment capital of EUR 50 million. (2020)
Advised Lindström Group on the sale its personal protective equipment (PPE) business in Finland to TOOLS Finland Oy (2019)
Advised Avidly Plc, a leading MarTech service provider, on its acquisition of inbound marketing company Hehku Marketing Oy and related private offering and listing on Nasdaq Helsinki (2019)
Advised Avidly Plc on acquisition of inbound marketing company NetPress GmbH and related private offering and listing on Nasdaq Helsinki (2019)
Advised Picosun Oy, a manufacturer of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) equipment, raising 12 million euros in new financing (2019)
Advised Bregal Milestone, on its investment of ePassi (2019)
Advised AddSecure, a leading European provider of premium solutions for secure data and critical communications, on it´s acquisition of the alarm communications business of Prevent 360 (2018)
Advised Avidly Plc, a leading MarTech service provider, on its acquisition of Avidly AB, a provider of HubSpot marketing automation services in Sweden, Norway and Denmark and related private offering and listing on Nasdaq Helsinki (2018)
Advised marketing and communications company Zeeland Family Oyj (currently Avidly Plc) on acquisition of communications agency Nitroid Oy and related private offering and listing on Nasdaq Helsinki (2018)
Advised Wulff Group Plc, the expert in products for the workplace, on its acquisition of Mavecom Palvelut Ltd, and the share issue on the Nasdaq Helsinki (2018)

Rankings

Legal 500 EMEA

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 2024
Endorsed in IFLR 1000 2025

Insights

Additional publications

Author of "Civilrättens integration ur nordisk synvinkel," Helsingfors Universitet, 2001
Co-author of "Consumer Law in the Information Society," Kluwer Law International, 2001
Author of The Initial Public Offerings Law Review - Second Edition, 2018
Author of The Initial Public Offerings Law Review - Third Edition, 2019
Author of The Initial Public Offerings Law Review - Fourth Edition, 2020
Author of The Initial Public Offerings Law Review - Fifth Edition, 2021
Author of The Initial Public Offerings Law Review - Sixth Edition, 2022