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Rankings of HH Partners’ Experts

1.6.2010 Jouni Salo Articles, Arto Kukkonen, Dispute Resolution, Esa Korkeamäki, Intellectual Property and Marketing, Jari Nikupaavola, Law Firm Rankings, M&A, Markku Korvenmaa, Martin von Willebrand

Lawyers of HH Partners have been well represented in international publications that rate business law firms. We have gathered here updated information regarding the quotes concerning our lawyers in various ranking publications. The information has been grouped by expert. The update was made in June 2010.

Markku Korvenmaa Appointed As Partner

1.8.2009 Jouni Salo Articles, Markku Korvenmaa, Our Firm, Recruiting

Markku Korvenmaa was appointed as a partner of HH Partnersin starting on 1 August 2009. Markku has served our firm since 2001 – apart of being trained on the bench during 2002-2003. His daily tasks include litigation, management of bankruptcy estates and general corporate law.

HH Partners joins FOSSBazaar

1.8.2009 Jouni Salo Articles, Martin von Willebrand, Open Technology, Technology

HH Partners has joined FOSSBazaar, a working group of Linux Foundation. FOSSBazaar is an open community of technology and industry leaders who are collaborating to accelerate adoption of free and open source software in the enterprise. Specifically, FOSSBazaar aims to:

Lex Nokia enters into force in June 2009

17.5.2009 Jouni Salo Articles, Data Protection, Technology

Employers allowed to monitor employees’ email and internet browsing information As a result of the enforcement of the Act on Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications (516/2004) (hereinafter the “APPEC”) in 2004, which implemented the directive 2002/58/EC, and whereby the regime applicable to telecom operators was extended to cover also companies and other corporate and association subscribers, Finland has had one of the strictest privacy legislations.

HH Partners advised MySQL AB

1.2.2008 Jouni Salo Articles, Employment Law, Intellectual Property and Marketing, M&A, Martin von Willebrand, Miika Erkkilä, Open Technology, References, Technology

HH Partners advised MySQL AB in preparation for an initial public offering or possible trade sale. We adivsed MySQL as regards corporate, intellectual property and labour law matters. The firm was sold to Sun Microsystems, Inc:ille with a deal published on 15 January 2008.