"Given Dittmar & Indrenius’ M&A-heavy diet, the employment group is involved in a lot of transactional work, although its recent highlights also demonstrate the strength of its standalone practice. For example, the team advised Fujitsu Siemens Computers on the largest ever co-operation consultation case in Finland, and acted for Kauppalehti on eight collective redundancy cases."

"The employment practice at this firm continues to flourish under the leadership of star lawyer Petteri Uoti, 'the number-one name in the Finnish market', according to commentators. He has a vast amount of experience in all areas of employment law, especially litigation and arbitration, where clients consider him 'extremely skilled and rigorous in his approach'."

"Much of the firm’s work in such areas is precedent-setting. The group also provides ongoing general employment law support to major clients such as McDonald’s and Hewlett-Packard. Seppo Havia is the firm's employment law head. Sources say: "He has an employers' association background and has been doing employment law for years - he knows the area inside-out."

(Chambers Europe, The World´s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2009)


Contact Information

Dittmar & Indrenius
Pohjoisesplanadi 25 A
FI-00100 Helsinki
Finland

Email: office@dittmar.fi

Telephone: +358 9 681 700
Telefax: +358 9 652 406
Employment & Pensions

Our Employment & Pensions practice is the leading employment practice in Finland covering all aspects of employment and pensions law.

We work in client centered teams to provide clients with the best and most flexible service. Our clientele consists of major and mid-size domestic and international corporations, banks and insurance companies as well as leading law firms in various jurisdictions. Our work covers the following five areas:

  •  Day-to-day employment advice
  •  Company reorganizations
  •  Employment disputes
  •  Mergers & Acquisitions
  •  Outsourcing

Our day-to-day advice covers, inter alia, recruitment, termination of employment, terms of employment, employment and director agreements as well as drafting other employment related documents, collective labour agreements and company policies.


































We design share, bonus and incentive schemes for personnel and management and provide advice on employers' pension obligations. We also design pension arrangements and schemes. One important area of our employment advice relates to domestic and EU-employment legislative compliance and regulatory requirements.

Company reorganizations cover reorganization and downsizing of personnel, personnel consultation requirements, rehiring obligations and severance packages.

Employment disputes cover litigation and arbitration including individual and collective dismissal disputes, industrial safety disputes, discrimination disputes and management liability disputes, enforcement of confidentiality obligations and post-termination restrictive covenants.

When it comes to Mergers & Acquisitions and Outsourcing we perform of HR legal due diligence and draft and negotiate business transfers, share purchase and outsourcing agreements. We also advise on transferor's and transferee's responsibilities, post transactional integration and acquired rights issues.
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