Katja Perätalo Speaking at the UNIDROIT Nordic Law Centre Workshop on 11 October 2024

Hannes Snellman’s Partner Katja Perätalo will be speaking at the UNIDOIRT Nordic Law Centre workshop covering the Nordic approach to the relationship between contract and tort liability in Rome on 11 October 2024. Katja’s topic will be focusing on joint and several liability based on separate individual contracts or a mix of contract and tort.

The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) is an independent intergovernmental organisation with its seat in Rome. Its purpose is to study needs and methods for modernising, harmonising, and co-ordinating private and in particular commercial law as between states and to formulate uniform law instruments, principles, and rules to achieve those objectives.

Katja specialises in industrial construction projects in all phases of negotiation and execution, and both in terms of non-contentious and contentious aspects. Katja has particular expertise in EPC & EPCM projects, projects based on disaggregated contracting/procurement strategies, and contracts & claims management leadership both on a global organisational level and within a particular project or contract. She holds a Doctor of Laws degree with her doctoral dissertation covering the interface between tort and contract law in the context of liabilities between parties of a large-scale construction project. To find out more about Katja’s background and expertise, please visit Katja’s profile.