Lotta Uusitalo

About Lotta

Lotta is the head of our Competition & Procurement practice. Lotta routinely advises clients in all aspects of competition law: merger control, cartel investigations, behavioral antitrust matters, abuse of dominance, vertical restrictions and damages actions. Lotta has significant experience in advising clients in co-operation with competitors and exchange of information, particularly for trade associations and on the energy & infra sector. Lotta gives advise also in state aid and public procurement matters. In addition, Lotta has significant general commercial experience particularly from automotive sector. She is also the head of our Corporate Responsibility & Sustainable Law practice and the team leader of our internal sustainability and green transition team.

Lotta delivers timely, practical and commercial legal advice and has the understanding of the client’s business as a priority. Lotta is interested in legal design and has developed legal tech for compliance purposes.

Career

Procopé & Hornborg, Partner 2007-
Procopé & Hornborg, Associate 1999-2003
District Court of Porvoo, Trainee Judge 1998-1997
Ministry of Labour, Chief Inspector 1996-1997

Education

Master of Laws, Diplôme des études approfondies en droit économic Européenne, Bruges, Belgium 1996
Master of Laws, University of Helsinki 1995
Trained on the Bench 1997

Memberships

Finnish Competition Law Association
Finnish Bar Association
International Bar Association
Finnish Corporate Responsibility Law Association, deputy member of the Board
Finnish Bar Association, Competition Law Specialist Group
EU12 Group by the Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland (procurement, competition and state aid)