Eeva-Lotta Kivelä

Partner

Eeva-Lotta is able to explain the Finnish legal landscape easily. It is always good to have someone in front who can give an overview in a short and comprehensive manner.

– Chambers FinTech Legal, FinTech Guide 2025

Eeva-Lotta Kivelä is a very skillful individual who is very prudent and very precise.

– Chambers FinTech Legal, FinTech Guide 2025

I very much appreciated working with the Dittmar team and will definitely come back next time I am in need of Finnish legal advice.

– IFLR1000 2023, Financial and corporate

Eeva-Lotta Kivelä Eeva-Lotta Kivelä

Eeva-Lotta Kivelä is a partner of Dittmar & Indrenius focusing on transactions especially in the energy & infrastructure, financial services and technology sectors. She has considerable experience in the energy industry, in particular relating to wind power, district heating and electricity distribution. She regularly advises clients on matters relating to acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate restructurings as well as complex contractual arrangements entailing, among others, power purchase agreements, various project and supply agreements as well as agreements relating to electricity distribution and grid operations. She specialises in projects supporting industrial transition, sustainable economy and circular solutions.

She has strong background in financing transactions entailing project financing, acquisition financing, real estate financing, complex asset leasing arrangements, securitization and derivatives. Additionally, her experience in corporate restructurings and M&A involving entities in the insurance, asset management and banking sectors – seamlessly integrating contract, corporate and regulatory laws – has delivered exceptional outcomes for her clients.

Eeva-Lotta Kivelä has played an instrumental role in several major contentious administrative proceedings in Finland involving regulated entities in the financial sector relating to, for instance, compliance with banking and investment services laws.

Career

Dittmar & Indrenius Attorneys Ltd. (2022–present)

OP Corporate Bank Plc, Senior Legal Counsel (2021)

Dittmar & Indrenius Attorneys Ltd., Associate (2015–2021)

KPMG Oy Ab, Tax and Risk Management Advisor (2013–2015)

Education

University of Turku (LL.M., 2013)

Rankings & recognitions

Ranked as Associates to watch, FinTech Legal, Chambers FinTech Guide 2025

Ranked as Rising star lawyer in practice area: Capital markets: Equity, IFLR 1000, 2024

Memberships & positions of trust
  • Finnish Bar Association
  • Finnish Audit Board
Languages

English
Finnish
Swedish

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