Tauno Palotie

Tauno Palotie has in his practice oriented towards corporate and contract law as well as matters of international trade and investments. He has acted as board member and chairman in boards of directors of several companies. He has versatile expertise in IPR and sports law related questions. For several years he has acted as board member in the Finnish Section of the International Chamber of Commerce, chairman of the ICC’s Incoterms Interpretation group in Finland, board member of the Finnish Ski Federation, and as chairman of the Ski Sport Finland ry. (alpine).

• Corporate law
• Mergers and acquisitions
• International trade and investments
• Corporate finance
• Contract law
• Sports law

• Merilampi Attorneys Ltd., Senior Advisor 2010 –
• Veikko Palotie & Co Attorneys at Law Ltd., Partner 1981 – 2010
• Oy Partek Ab, Company lawyer 1979 – 1981
• Kansallis-Osake-Pankki (a Finnish bank), Financial advisor 1978 – 1979
• Central Chamber of Commerce of Finland, Head of the legal department 1974 – 1977
• Veikko Palotie & Co, Attorneys at Law, Associate 1972 – 1974

• Finnish
• English
• Swedish
• German

• Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Helsinki, 1972
• Trained at the Bench, 1974
• Master of Laws (LL.M.), Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium, 1978
• Attorney-at-Law, 1982