A recent survey conducted by US-based Best Lawyers awarded Jyrki Tähtinen as the Private Equity Lawyer of the Year and Seppo Kemppinen the Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year for Finland. Additionally, Jyrki Tähtinen was listed as one of the leading lawyers in six different categories.
Only a single lawyer in each practice area in each community is being honoured as the “Lawyer of the Year” for 2010. The lawyers being honoured as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in the surveys.
Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 16th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2010), is based on more than 2.8 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.
The list of outstanding B&K lawyers in their field:
Aalto-Setälä Ilkka (Antitrust)
Aminoff Jan (Maritime, Transportation)
Hidén Paulus (Investment Funds)
Kaarakainen Ari (Finance)
Kemppinen Seppo (Intellectual Property)
Rapinoja Ben (Intellectual Property)
Seppälä Timo (Insolvency and reorganisation)
Simojoki Samuli (Telecommunications)
Tarkela Pekka (Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Media, Technology)
Tähtinen Jyrki (Corporate, Insolvency and Reorganisation, Investment Funds, M&A, Private Equity, Venture Capital)
Vikiö Jari (Corporate, M&A, Private Equity, Venture Capital)
von Weissenberg Ulla (Maritime, Transportation)