Pia Tanskanen

Managing Partner, Attorney at Law, Trained on the Bench

About Pia

Pia Tanskanen is the Managing Partner of Procopé & Hornborg. She is also an attorney and co-head of firm’s M&A practice. Pia specializes in mergers & acquisitions, private equity as well as corporate and contract law. She has extensive experience in multi-jurisdictional transactions and divestments involving industrial clients. Due to her extensive general counsel background Pia has in-depth knowledge in steel, energy and consumer goods business, just to name a few.

Pia is business-minded and solution-oriented, and she drives M&A and other projects efficiently, comprehensively and successfully.

Career

Procopé & Hornborg, CEO 2021-
Procopé & Hornborg, Counsel 2019-2021
SSAB Finland (Rautaruukki), General Counsel 2016-2019
Ruukki Construction, General Counsel 2014-2016
Rautaruukki, Vice President, Legal 2008-2014
Valio, General Counsel 2004-2008

Education

Trained on the Bench 1997
Diploma in English Commercial Law, College of Law, London 1996
Master of Laws, University of Helsinki 1994

Memberships

Finnish Bar Association
International Bar Association

Working languages

  • English
  • Finnish
  • Swedish

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REFERENCE – 04.11.2021

Procope & Hornborg acted as the legal advisor for funds managed by Sponsor Capital Oy in the sale of CompAid Group Oy, including its subsidiary Haltija Group Oy, to Berner Oy

Procope & Hornborg acted as the legal advisor for funds managed by Sponsor Capital Oy in the sale of CompAid Group Oy, including its subsidiary Haltija Group Oy, to Berner Oy. Haltija Group is a leading Finnish company specializing in assistive technologies and services. The company provides co…

Reference – 04.11.2021

REFERENCE – 26.10.2021

Procopé & Hornborg acted as a Legal Advisor of Vahanen Group in the sale of its shares to AFRY

Procopé & Hornborg acted as the Legal Advisor to Vahanen Group’s management and its shareholders in the sale of the entire share capital of Vahanen International Oy to AFRY, a European leader in engineering, design, and advisory services. AFRY is a Swedish-Finnish engineering, consulting, a…

Reference – 26.10.2021

REFERENCE – 02.08.2021

Procopé & Hornborg advised Ensto Invest Oy in the sale of its EBS business to Legrand France S.A

Procopé & Hornborg advised Ensto Invest Oy (“Ensto”) in the sale of Ensto Building Systems Oy (“EBS”) together with all the EBS  group companies to Legrand France S.A. EBS provides electrification and lighting solutions for buildings, industries, traffic and marine businesses and …

Reference – 02.08.2021

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