House purchases, real estate deals and construction often contain significant proprietary interests, which is why they are subject to a considerable number of hard and soft laws, regulations, and provisions. One of our central areas of expertise is guidance to our clients regarding this legislation and, if necessary, support in attaining their legal rights ultimately before a court.

Construction engineering as well as hard and soft standards regulating it are often crucially associated with construction, house purchases and real estate deals. Attorneys at Law LakimiesCom Ltd has a great deal of experience and extensive know-how of said special regime and the industry’s established practices in addition to a large collaborative network of experts.

We possess the strong technical expertise and necessary industry knowledge to understand construction and development/construction contracting as well as the agreements connected to various prefabricated house packages and product component deliveries with all their commercial and technical supporting documents.

Our clients can safely rely on our special expertise and extensive experience, whether they wish to draw up or revise an agreement by an industry professional or settle the matter of a mouldy house, construction defect or contract dispute.

Attorneys at Law LakimiesCom Ltd offers comprehensive contractual guidance to businesses of all types and sizes during the different stages of their lifespans, all tailored to their prevailing needs.

A company’s commercial relationships are regulated by various agreements regardless of its line of business, although these agreements are not always – and often not even when it would be necessary – made in writing. We cannot fail to emphasize that all business activities entail legal risks of varying degrees in addition to operational risks. These risks can be managed with very reasonable costs by e.g. ensuring that the business adequately defines its legal relationships with written agreements and that its agreements are drawn up or revised by a contract law expert before signing them. As the saying goes, it’s always “better to be safe than sorry”.

Our contractual and commercial law services cover e.g. the composition of the following commercial agreements as well as guidance concerning their related points of law:

• contracts of sale and lease agreements;
• supply, purchase, agency and distribution agreements;
• construction and prefabricated house package delivery agreements;
• service and assignment agreements;
• financing agreements, promissory notes and guarantee documents;
• shareholders’ agreements;
• IT agreements;
• employment contracts and management contracts.

Attorneys at Law LakimiesCom Ltd takes on wide-ranging assignments concerning various insurance and tort law matters as well as product liability on behalf of both the liable party and the injured party.

Compensation issues may arise as ancillary questions in disputes or criminal cases, e.g. concerning contractual disputes or disputes about defective goods or, in a criminal matter, as a victim’s claim. However, a claim for damages may equally well be an exclusive claim or a main issue in a dispute.

A claim for damages often involves other actors in addition to the injured party, the liable party or the party with strict liability for the damage. These actors include other parties with possible claims or partial liabilities, e.g. insurance companies, employers, coactors, subcontractors or product importers.

Liability for damages is occasionally settled solely between the insurance policyholder and the insurance company. Insurances are also often connected to other points of law in which the insurance policyholder requires expert help, both in terms of the compensability of bodily injury or material damage within the insurance contract’s exclusion clauses or in terms of the amount of compensation. We tackle insurance-related matters extensively on behalf of the insurance policyholder via negotiations, FINE, and in court.

The knowledge and practical applicability of the legal rules concerning various responsibility criteria, the amount of compensation, and burden of proof as well as of insurance law requires special expertise. Attorneys at Law LakimiesCom Ltd offers its clients exactly this expertise in insurance and tort law based on long-running experience and involvement in advocacy and dispute resolution.

Business activities, company ownership and administration, and various business arrangements always entail a number of different financial and legal issues. Attorneys at Law LakimiesCom Ltd offers comprehensive corporate law guidance for businesses of all types and sizes during the different stages of their lifespans, all tailored to their prevailing needs.

Our most common corporate law assignments are as follows:

• starting a company;
• amendments to the articles of association or company form;
• drawing up a shareholders’ agreement defining the relationships between the company’s owners;
• amendments to the company’s ownership base (e.g. share transfer, share issue, incentive schemes);
• other business reorganisations (e.g. merger, demerger, transfer of activities);
• the company’s financing and amendments to capital structure;
• assistance with the company’s administrative matters (e.g. shareholders’ meeting, Board work, good administrative practices).

Attorneys at Law LakimiesCom Ltd has taken on several disputes by both businesses and private persons in general courts, arbitration proceedings, the Finnish Consumer Disputes Board, and FINE.

Reaching the desired goal in different dispute processes is often crucially dependent on how the matter is pursued. Our experience and expertise in terms of the course of dispute processes and the presentation of matters serves our clients’ interests as they efficiently attain their legal rights, whether through judicial or non-judicial dispute resolution.

Attorneys at Law LakimiesCom Ltd takes on wide-ranging assignments concerning various private life legal issues. For instance, we have extensive experience of marriages, divorces, distribution of matrimonial assets, child support, habitation, visitation rights and custody as well as issues relating to inheritance law.

Our most common family and inheritance law assignments are as follows:

• prenuptial agreements, consultation before marriage;
• assistance with divorce and the distribution of shared household assets in common law marriages;
• distribution agreements;
• functioning as an estate distributor appointed by a court regarding the distribution of shared household assets of marriage partners and common law marriage partners;
• child support, habitation, custody and visitation rights;
• wills and public guardianship authorisations;
• estate inventory deeds and estate distribution deeds, inheritance tax planning;
• functioning as an estate administrator and estate distributor appointed by a court in estate distribution matters;
• assistance with estate distribution matters.

Our office has long-running experience of bankruptcy cases. We function as administrative receivers in bankruptcies.

We also assist the various interested parties in a bankruptcy in its different stages concerning e.g. requests for payment with the threat of bankruptcy, bankruptcy petitions, or recoveries.

In cases of insolvency, the long-term benefit of both the creditors and debtor is to continue the debtor company’s profitable business. In such cases, we utilise our expertise to carry out negotiations and investigations of voluntary company reorganisations as well as statutory company reorganisations, functioning as a receiver or assistant appointed by a court to the various interested parties.

Attorneys at Law LakimiesCom Ltd takes on wide-ranging assignments concerning the assistance of both the suspects and plaintiffs in criminal procedures, starting from preliminary measures such as assistance with police investigations.

It is often in the plaintiff’s best interests that the validity and adequacy of compensation for damages is determined. The interests of the defendant require that all exculpatory evidence is brought forward.

We will ascertain the conditions for legal aid in which the attorney’s fees are paid completely or partly by the state. Moreover, if the client has legal expenses insurance, we will ascertain the preconditions for its application.