Eliel Ahmala

Senior Associate
Eliel Ahmala
Location
Helsinki
Language
English, Finnish
Services

Eliel practices primarily in the area of corporate law, including domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions as well as general corporate, commercial and contract law.

Prior to joining DLA Piper, Eliel worked as an associate lawyer for a Finnish law firm specialised in business law.

Credentials
Education
  • Master of Laws, University of Helsinki, 2015
Memberships
  • Finnish Bar Association
Experience
Prior Experience
  • 2017 - 2018, Associate Lawyer, Finnish law firm
  • 2016 - 2017, Lawyer, Finnish law firm
  • 2015, Legal Trainee, Wärtsilä Oyj Abp
  • 2015, Associate Trainee, Finnish law firm
  • 2014, Lawyer Trainee, international law firm
Selected recent references
  • Advising The Orange Company on its sale of Smartum to Epassi (2024)

  • Advising Solar Foods on its listing on the Nasdaq First North (2024)

  • Advising OX2 on the divestment of its 50 MW battery storage system located in Finland (2024)

  • Advising construction and industrial software supplier Zeroni Oy’s shareholders on the sale of the company to EG (2024)

  • Advising Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd) in connection with fiber optic provider Valoo’s (Adola Ltd) debt and equity funding round worth over €250 million (2023)

  • Advising MVision AI on funding round (2023)

  • Advising HKScan in the divestment of its Baltic business (2022)

  • Advising Saari Partners in its investment in Geniem (2022)

  • Advising sellers on the sale of Kaslink (2019)

  • Advising ABRY Partners on the acquisition of two enterprise software companies (2019)

  • Advising Sentica on sale of Chilit (2019)

  • Advising Miab on acquisition of Finnish N-Clean (2019)

  • Advising Alfen on its acquisition of Elkamo (2018)