Nordicum - Real Estate Annual Finland 2016 | Page 67

Eversheds Finland:

Eye on
Transactions

Saara Raitala from Eversheds says
that the mood in the real estate
market is good: a lot of transactions
have been carried out, and many
are waiting in the pipeline. Raitala,
who is a Partner in the firm and
also heads the Transactions team,
comments that as deals are being
made again, also the international
players have returned to Finland.

“W

e are seeing more and more
business where one or more of
the negotiating parties comes
from abroad,” Raitala says.
And Eversheds Finland itself has
“gone international” during the last year or
so. In November 2014 it was announced that
one of Finland’s leading law firms, Juridia
Bützow, is to join Eversheds International
– in an effort to further broaden the international reach of both firms.

Make It Big
Joining Eversheds, which consists of 57
offices in 31 countries across EMEA and
Asia, meant that the Finnish law firm – with
five offices and 165 professionals across
Finland – started playing in the Major
Leagues for real. After all, Eversheds and
its worldwide offices have over 4,000 people who provide services to the private and
public sector and business and finance communities.
Furthermore, the ownership of the
newest member in the global Eversheds family stayed in the Finnish hands. “Now, looking at the situation one year after we joined
Eversheds, one could say that the integration
process has been smooth,” Raitala says, add-

ing that the global network helps to attract
and secure new business.
“Real estate is a ‘semi-global’ field
in the sense that the buildings don’t relocate themselves, but the ow