Our Lawyers & Staff
Phone: +358 9 3157 4101
E-mail: tkauttu (at) aliantlaw.fi
LL.M. (Helsinki), LL.M. (Washington)
Partner, Legal Counsel
Trained on the bench, Varatuomari
Specialities: Cross-border transactions, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, IPR.
About Tuomo:
Tuomo Kauttu is a partner at Aliant and the head of Aliant’s practice in Finland. He is a member of the firm’s Corporate Practice Group and regularly represents corporations, with more than 25 years’ experience advising clients on cross-border business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments, technology commerce, joint ventures, corporate governance, and other complex corporate matters.
Tuomo holds a Master of Laws degree from the University of Helsinki and an LL.M. from the University of Washington, where his studies focused on corporate law and taxation, mergers and acquisitions, investments, and business planning. After graduation and court training, he worked in corporate finance at a bank and then spent a year as an attorney intern at a New York law firm. He has practiced business law in Helsinki for more than 25 years.
He serves as a representative of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Finland delegation and is active in the American Bar Association’s International Business Law Committee and Mergers and Acquisitions Committee. He has published numerous professional articles and regularly lectures in Finland and abroad.
Phone: +358 9 3157 4102
E-mail: pvalo (at) aliantlaw.fi
LL.M. (Turku), LL.M. (Exeter)
Senior Counsel, Licensed Attorney (Finland)
Solicitor (England, Wales)
Trained on the bench, Varatuomari
Specialities: International transactions, mergers and acquisitions, trademark, design and copyright law, corporate finance, money laundering compliance, competition law, dispute resolution
About Pekka:
Pekka Valo is a senior counsel at Aliant Finland. Pekka has wide experience in business law both in Finland and England where he has worked several years as Solicitor and In-house lawyer.
Mr. Valo is specialised in International Contract Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Dispute Resolution, IP and ICT Law. He has represented several internationally known brand names especially in the fashion and design industry in their issues relating to Trade Marks, Design Rights, Franchise and Distribution. He has advised in numerous international corporate arrangements, English sports teams with their establishment as corporate entities, online gaming companies setting up and running the their business and an Arctic expedition team in their sponsorship issues. He has also worked in a Financial Services company in the City of London as a Legal Counsel and FSA (currently FCA) approved Compliance Officer and MLRO.
In addition to his work Pekka has done research as Doctoral Associate in Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI) University of London. The focus of his research was in Copyright issues of audio-visual works. During the time he wrote numerous articles involving Design Right, Patent, Trade Mark and Copyright to an online publication of an international law firm. He took part to teaching of the Institute by familiarising the representatives of EU candidate states with Intellectual Property Rights.
Pekka is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales.
In March 2014 Pekka joined Aliant Finland (previously Kauttu & Co).