Petri Avikainen
Partner, Helsinki
Corporate Advisory, Equity Capital Markets, Finance & Restructuring, Public M&A
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Petri Avikainen is a Helsinki-based Partner and Head of the firm’s Equity Capital Markets and Public M&A practices. He has more than 20 years of experience of capital markets transactions, including equity, equity-linked and debt capital markets as well as public tender offers and listed company mergers.
Petri also regularly advises Finnish listed companies and other corporate and investment banking clients on issues related to Finnish corporate and securities laws. During his career, he has advised on numerous market-leading and complex first-of-a-kind Finnish capital markets and corporate transactions.
He joined Roschier as a Partner in 2022.
Recognitions
Petri is ranked as one of the leading capital markets experts in Finland by Chambers Global/Europe, IFLR1000 and The Legal 500.
This is what clients say about Petri:
“Petri Avikainen is highly knowledgeable and clearly leading in his area. He can simplify the big picture, has great communication skills and can combine practical needs and theory to provide high-quality deliverables.”
– Chambers Global 2024, Capital Markets
“Petri Avikainen is the go-to person with respect to legal services needed in complex international bond transactions.”
– The Legal 500 2024, Capital Markets
“For me, Petri Avikainen has always been a go-to-person with complex cross-border bond projects. He is clearly the leading expert in prospectus regulation and offering regulation and market conventions.”
– The Legal 500 2023, Capital Markets
“One of the best in capital markets cases, working on both debt and equity transactions.”
– Chambers Global 2022, Capital Markets
“Petri Avikainen is unique in his understanding and knowledge of the international capital markets.”
– The Legal 500 2022, Capital Markets
Work highlights
Petri Avikainen’s experience includes advising:
- Tietoevry in the strategic review, planned demerger and listing or sale of its Banking business;
- Nordea Bank and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken Helsinki Branch as global coordinators and bookrunners and Danske Bank and Swedbank as bookrunners in YIT Corporation’s EUR 33.5 million directed share issue and EUR 36 million convertible notes issuance;
- Carnegie Investment Bank AB, Finland Branch as the sole global coordinator and bookrunner in the EUR 20 million rights offering by Duell Corporation;
- Carnegie Investment Bank AB, Finland Branch and UBS Europe SE as the joint bookrunners in the EUR 102 million sale of shares in Kempower Corporation by Kemppi Group through an accelerated book-built offering;
- Rovio Entertainment Corporation in the EUR 700 million all cash takeover of all shares in Rovio by Sega Europe;
- Solidium Oy in its EUR 130 million sale of shares in Kemira Oyj to institutional investors;
- Enersense International Plc in its offering of EUR 26 million senior unsecured conditionally convertible notes due January 2027;
- Nordea Bank Abp as the manager in the EUR 30 million IPO of Koskisen Group and listing of its shares on the official list of Nasdaq Helsinki;
- Bain Capital-led consortium in the cash tender offer for all shares in Caverion;
- Lassila & Tikanoja in its issue of EUR 75 million sustainability-linked bonds and the tender offer on existing EUR 50 million bonds due 2023;
- Sampo plc in its EUR 1.84 billion sale of shares in Nordea Bank Plc to institutional investors; and
- Basware Corporation in the public cash tender offer for the shares in the company by a consortium of investors comprising Accel-KKR Capital Partners VI, LP, Long Path Holdings 1, LP and Briarwood Capital Partners LP through Sapphire BidCo Ltd.
Career
Roschier (2022-); Partner (2022-)
White & Case LLP (2000-2022); Associate (2000-2009), Partner (2010-2022)
Memberships
The Finnish Bar Association
Education
University of Turku, LL.M (1999)
Languages
English, Finnish
The Legal 500A go-to-person with complex cross-border bond projects. He is clearly the leading expert in prospectus regulation and offering regulation and market conventions.