Read the Finland chapter of Lexology’s Getting the Deal Through – Mining 2021

Read our Q&A Guide to the Sale and Storage of Goods, to International Trade in Goods and Services in Finland & Establishing a Business in Finland

Partner Pekka Kiviniemi and Senior Associate Tuuli Willgren were the authors of the Finland chapter of the latest Getting the Deal Through – Labour & Employment.

Getting the Deal Through – Labour and Employment 2020 – Kalliolaw contributed to the Finland chapter.

Pekka Holopainen, Olli Oksman and Johanna Salonen wrote an article for Practical Law - Global Guides on international trade in goods and services in Finland.

Pekka Holopainen, Olli Oksman and Tiina Kekäläinen wrote an article for Practical Law - Global Guides on sale and storage of goods in Finland.

Tiina Kekäläinen and Sonja Kurki created guidance for FiBAN on typical start-up IPR matters.

The filing of the transfer tax has changed in November 2019. When a real estate, shares in a housing company or other shares are bought, transfer tax must be paid. The changes concern the procedure for the filing and payment of the transfer tax. The changes apply to purchases that have been made on 1 November 2019 or later.

The new Working Hours Act enters into force on the first day of 2020. It contains several significant changes that affect even those companies that have organized work around a collective agreement. The applicable framework in its entirety will, in the end, also still depend on the applicable collective agreement and any local agreements.

Beneficial owners must be listed to the Finnish Trade Register at the latest on 1 July 2020. If the beneficial owners or their details change, the details must be updated in company’s internal list of the beneficial owners as well as with the Trade Register.