Timo Ruikka
Timo Ruikka focuses on contracts for investment goods transactions and projects (technology, plant & equipment, networks, systems), in IP and technology law, as well as business and policy issues related to digital media. Timo also litigates supply contract and licensing disputes in Finnish courts and international arbitration proceedings. Timo’s clients include telecom service providers, equipment vendors, shipbuilding and machine suppliers and purchasers of ICT systems and machinery, plant and equipment.
Timo's experience covers most areas of business law and transactions and he has served for 30 years in three major industries (paper industry, metals and engineering, electronics). During his career of two decades in senior positions at Nokia, he has gained a keen understanding of business management and global technology industries in addition to his role as a lawyer.
- University of Turku, Master of Laws, 1981
- Finnish Bar Association
- Industrial Lawyers' Association (Finland)
- Licensing Executives Society (LES) - Scandinavia
- 2009 to 2016, Senior Counselor, Finnish law firm
- 2007 to 2009, Strategy Advisor, (IPR Intellectual Property), Nokia Corporation
- 2005 to 2007, Strategy Advisor, (Corporate Strategy), Nokia Corporation
- 2001 to 2005, Vice President, (Technology Platforms), Nokia Corporation
- 1999 to 2001, Vice President, Nokia Internet Communications, Mountain View, California
- 1997 to 1999, Senior Vice President, Nokia Telecommunications
- 1994 to 1997, Vice President, Nokia Telecommunications
- 1990 to 1999, Management group member, Nokia Telecommunications
- 1988 to 1999, Group Legal Counsel, Nokia Telecommunications
- 1983 to 1987, Legal Counsel, Outokumpu Oyj
- 1981 to 1983, Legal Counsel and Company Secretary, FINNPAP
- Advising Helsinki City Transport Authority (HKL) in a dispute regarding termination of Helsinki area metro automation contracts (2020)
- Endorsed in The Legal 500 EMEA, 2019
