Harri has over 25 years of extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, contract and company law, financing, securities, and taxation.
Harri has taken care of hundreds of both domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, investments and corporate transactions and their financing solutions, corporate restructurings, as well as related complex legal questions pertaining especially to company and contract law.
Speeding up the growth of companies with quick successive corporate transactions with consolidation is one of Harri’s specialties.
Harri advises both listed and unlisted companies and their owners in legal matters. He has also acted and currently acts as a member of the boards of many companies operating in various different business sectors.
Business and solution oriented, clear and comprehensive advice and stringent project management are key to Harri's approach.
Harri’s motto is: "Jurisprudence is interesting, but the use of common sense is permitted –sometimes even recommended."
Harri has acted on a number of major transactions, including:
- acting for the sellers in the corporate transaction in which Mehiläinen acquired 100% of the shares of Psykiatriakonsultaatiot Hilla Oy
- acting for Polartherm Group Oy in a cross-border business transaction, where the Swedish listed Bergman & Beving AB (publ) acquired an 80% stake in Polartherm Group Oy
- acting for the sellers in the sale of the entire share capital of Econia Oy to Administer Oyj, which is listed on Nasdaq First North Helsinki
- acting for the sellers in the sale of the entire share capital of Fixcel Oy to Parmaco Group Oy
- acting for the sellers in the sale of the entire share capital of Confidex Oy to Tags Lux Sarl (part of the Brazilian Beontag Group)
- advising the owners of the Viher-Pirkka Oy, a Helsinki based landscaping company, in a transaction where the company’s shares were sold to the Swedish Green Landscaping Group Ab, a company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (GREEN)
- advising Relais Group Oyj, listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market, as it acquired Lumise Oy and Optisell Oy
- acting as advisor to Revenio Group Plc, which is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki, when it signed an agreement to purchase 100% of the share of the Australian CERA Technologies Pty Ltd (Oculo)
- representing Digitalist Group Plc when it sold 30% of its subsidiary Digitalist Sweden AB to key personnel and acquired company shares in a targeted acquisition as part of the overall arrangement
- acting for the German holding company Mutares SE & Co KGaA in its acquisition of the Swedish and Finnish Road Services Business from NCC AB (publ)
- advising Kaiku Health Oy in a share transaction in which all of the shares of Kaiku Health Oy were acquired by Elekta AB, a company listed on the Stockholm stock exchange
- advising the sellers in transaction in which companies and functions belonging to Myllyn Paras –group were sold to equity fund managed by Sponsor Capital
- advising Meriaura Group Oyj in a conditional share exchange agreement, under which the company will acquire the entire share capital of Summa Defence Oy
- Eversheds Attorneys Ltd, Partner, 2018–
- Eversheds Attorneys Ltd, Chairman of the Board, 2019-2024
- Eversheds Attorneys Ltd, Managing Partner, 2015–2018
- Attorneys JB Eversheds Ltd, Managing Partner, 2014–2015
- Attorneys-at-Law Juridia Bützow Ltd, Managing Partner, 2013–2014
- Bützow Ltd, Managing Partner, 2009–2013
- Attorneys Kallioinen, Tolppanen, Salminen & Co Oy, Managing Partner, 1993–2008
- Practised law in different law firms, 1989–1993
- Member of the Bar, 1993
- Trained on the Bench, 1992
- Master of Law, University of Helsinki, 1989