Klaus Metsä-Simola
Partner | Helsinki@hannessnellman.com
Our Environment and Natural Resources team advises clients in the field of environmental and real estate planning laws and legal aspects relevant to mining and other exploitation of natural resources.
Our team assists clients with complicated environmental liability situations, permit application, and appeals processes, as well as critical planning and zoning procedures. The team is able to provide independent legal environmental due diligence reports, and we are used to working in close cooperation with clients’ environmental and technical teams and advisors. We are also experienced in representing our clients before regulatory authorities, municipalities, and courts in permit and environmental compliance matters, including changes to production and processes.
Environmental issues affecting investments and operations are increasingly complex and involve various interested parties, such as owners, operators, authorities, and environmental organisations. Our legal expertise and thorough understanding of our clients’ businesses allow us to provide advice that is suited to the specific demands of each client.
Environment & Natural Resources practice is a part of our cross-border Real Assets service concept combining our offerings to the Environment & Natural Resources, Infrastructure & Energy, Projects & Construction, and Real Estate sectors into a coordinated, multi-disciplinary advice to our clients.
ib vogt, Helen
ib vogt's disposal of 206 MWp solar PV project to Helen.
Value not public
Counsel to ib vogt
Metsähallitus, Vattenfall
Counsel to the Finnish state enterprise Metsähallitus in the joint venture entered into with Vattenfall concerning Finland’s first large-scale offshore wind farm. Our assignment, commenced in 2021, entailed all legal aspects of the structured sales process followed by the creation of the joint venture and the contractual framework steering the development.
Value not public
Counsel to Metsähallitus
Keliber Oy, Metso Outotec
Counsel to Keliber in respect of the construction and supply contracts pertaining to the company’s lithium project in Central Ostrobothnia, Finland. The project is one of the most significant battery chemical projects in Europe. Keliber has now signed a contract with Metso Outotec to supply a concentrator plant in Kaustinen and a lithium hydroxide plant in Kokkola, which is one of the key deliveries in respect of the project.
Value not public
Counsel to Keliber Oy
Exilion Wind, BayWa r.e. Nordic
Exilion Wind's and BayWa r.e. Nordic's wind power joint venture. Through the joint venture, the co-investors will invest and develop the Karhakkamaa wind farm project, which is envisaged to consist of 48 wind turbines with an installed capacity of approximately 350MW.
Value not public
Counsel to Exilion Wind
Counsel to Exilion in the Construction and Financing of Isokangas and Palokangas Wind Farms. The projects will be constructed in Ii in northern Ostrobothnia, Finland, and will have an aggregate capacity of 100MW. The estimated yearly production of the two wind farms will be around 320,000 MWh. Our team advised Exilion in respect of negotiating turbine supply and services, balance of plant and financing agreements.
Stora Enso Oyj, UPM-Kymmene Group, Metsä Group, Sonoco-Alcore, other sellers (Sellers), Stena Recycling Oy (Buyer), Encore Ympäristöpalvelut Oy (Target)
Sale of Encore Ympäristöpalvelut Oy to Stena Recycling Oy
Value not public
Counsel to Stora Enso Oyj, UPM-Kymmene Group, Metsä Group, Sonoco-Alcore, and other sellers
Remeo Holding II Oy (buyer), Delete Finland Oy (seller), Delete Ympäristöpalvelut Oy (target)
Counsel to Remeo in its acquisition of Delete Ympäristöpalvelut Oy, a Finland-based environmental and recycling services provider.
Value not public
Counsel to Remeo
Gasgrid Finland Oy, Excelerate Energy
Gasgrid Finland Oy's chartering of an LNG Floating Storage and Regasification Unit from Excelerate Energy.
EUR 460 million
Counsel to Gasgrid Finland Oy
Hannes Snellman acts as counsel to Microsoft in Finland.
Assemblin, Tom Allen Senera
Counsel to Assemblin in its acquisition of Tom Allen Senera, a Finland-based systems supplier of energy solutions to properties.
Value not public
Counsel to Assemblin
Keliber Oy, Sweco
Keliber signed an engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) contract with Sweco in respect of a project, which comprises a concentrator plant and lithium mines in Kaustinen, Kokkola and Kruunupyy, and a lithium hydroxide plant in Kokkola.
Value not public
Counsel to Keliber Oy
Remeo Oy
Remeo Oy's construction project of a materials recovery facility.
Approx. EUR 35 million
Counsel to Remeo Oy
SGS, SYNLAB’s Analytics & Services division
SGS to buy SYNLAB's Analytics & Services division
EUR 550 million
Swedish and Finnish Counsel to SGS
Exilion Tuuli (Buyer), St1 (Seller)
Exilion Tuuli's transaction whereby Exilion Tuuli acquired the wind power production and development business of St1
Value not public
Counsel to Exilion Tuuli
Hartwall Capital Oy Ab (Buyer), SUEZ Suomi Oy (Target)
Hartwall Capital Oy Ab's acquisition of SUEZ Suomi Oy, comprising the Finnish operations of SUEZ Group
Value not public
Counsel to Hartwall Capital Oy Ab
Eurus Energy Holdings Corporation (Buyer), Maas Capital Renewables (Seller) and YARD ENERGY (Seller)
Eurus Energy Holdings Corporation's acquisition of two wind farms in Finland from Maas Capital Renewables and YARD ENERGY
Value not public
Counsel to Eurus Energy Holdings Corporation
Metsähallitus (Seller), Taaleri Plc private equity fund and Loiste Energia Oy (Buyers)
Metsähallitus' divestment of wind farm project to Taaleri Plc private equity fund and Loiste Energia Oy
EUR 110 million
Counsel to Metsähallitus
Veolia, Neste and Borealis
A transaction creating a JV with Neste and Borealis to build a new combined heat and power plant and produce and supply steam and other utilities to Neste's refinery and Borealis' petrochemical plant in Porvoo, Finland
Approximately EUR 350 million
Counsel to Veolia
Mondi Group (Buyer), Walki Group (Seller)
Mondi Group's acquisition of Walki Group's extrusion coating plants located in Pietarsaari, Finland and Wroclaw, Poland
EUR 60 million
Counsel to Mondi AG
Counsel to Finnish Wind Power Association in a regulatory assignment concerning the noise emissions caused by wind turbines.
Counsel to TuuliSaimaa Oy in a zoning dispute against the Finnish Military Forces regarding the construction of a wind farm in Eastern Finland.
Counsel to TuuliWatti Oy in permitting of several wind farms in Finland.
Counsel to a Finnish City in an administrative proceedings in relation to remediation liability of an landfill.
Counsel to a large Finnish energy production company in its dispute concerning the acceptable emission levels to the water course and environmental damages related thereto.
Counsel to a foreign mining company in assessing environmental obligations and liabilities resulting from possible shut-down of a mine in Finland.
Counsel to a Finnish hydropower plant owner in a dispute concerning the proposed amendments to the existing water permit and compensation related thereto.
Counsel to the Finnish Transport Authority in a dispute concerning environmental remediation requirements of a lake located in Southern Finland.
Counsel to the municipality of Siuntio in the amendment of its city plan concerning a shopping mall.
Counsel to Metsähallitus in its divestment of two pre-construction stage wind power projects (envisaged to comprise a total of 64 wind power plants with an aggregate output of approximately 166 megawatts) to a JV owned by Taaleritehtaan Tuulitehdas II Ky and Loiste Energia Oy.
Counsel to the City of Porvoo in the drafting of the building code of the municipality.