Independent arbitration and transaction services

Kimmo Mettälä Consulting Ltd. is a specialist legal consulting firm focusing on international and domestic arbitration and transaction services.

The firm’s founder Kimmo Mettälä has been involved for decades as a private law firm partner and a transactional lawyer in the areas of international and domestic finance and corporate/M&A transactions. 

Expertise:

Banking and finance:

Kimmo Mettälä has decades of experience in the field of banking and finance law. He has practiced as an attorney in leading law firms in Finland and the United States.  His experience includes  sovereign lending, bilateral and syndicated loans, project financing, acquisition finance, asset finance, real estate finance, trade and export finance as well as  debt capital markets operations.  Having worked at the World Bank and EBRD, he has first hand experience of the public international law aspects of sovereign lending. He has also been involved in a number of domestic and cross-border non-voluntary and voluntary enforcement and restructuring processes. 

Corporate/M&A:

Kimmo Mettälä has extensive experience in the corporate/M&A field, and he has acted for acquirers and sellers as well as minority investors in a large number of transactions in Finland and other jurisdictions. His clients have ranged from multinational companies and governmental entities to private equity- and family owned businesses. His experience covers a broad range of sectors, including manufacturing, pulp and paper, chemical industry, automotive, retail, distribution, telecommunications, infrastructure and real estate, banking, financial and other service industries. 

Real estate and infrastructure:

Kimmo Mettälä’s experience in the area of real estate and infrastructure finance includes sovereign loans to finance infrastructure investments and commercial lending by means of project finance and limited recourse financings. These projects have involved the construction of commercial real property, hotel properties as well as renewable energy production facilities. In addition to finance, he has acted for developers, sellers, buyers and financiers in domestic and cross-border real property acquisitions and divestitures. He has represented different parties in PPP transactions in Finland, and he has advised sellers, owners and other parties in commercial shopping center, sports arena and other high-value real estate investments and the financing of such projects.

Arbitration:

Kimmo Mettälä is currently available for arbitrator assignments. To date, he has acted as counsel and as arbitrator and chair of arbitral tribunal in a number of commercial arbitration proceedings as well as squeeze-out arbitrations under the Companies Act.

Arbitration proceedings in which Kimmo Mettälä has been involved have included, among others, complex cross-border and domestic proceedings relating to large infrastructure project assets, power plant financing, sale of commercial property facilities, distribution of electricity and delivery of machinery and equipment.

Kimmo Mettälä has completed the Arbitration Academy of the Finland Arbitration Institute (FAI) and is a member of the Users’ Council of the London Court of International Arbitration.

Geographic expertise:

  • Kimmo Mettälä has decades of international experience, and he has spent some 10 years in the U.S. and the U.K. as a transactional lawyer at The World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a major U.S. law firm.  Throughout his law firm career he has frequently represented clients from the U.S., the U.K. and other jurisdictions. 
  • He has also worked on a number of high-value financing transactions  in Latin America and Eastern and Central Europe.

Publications

Kimmo Mettälä has published articles and co-authored textbooks in the areas of business and financial law and arbitration in Finnish, U.S. and international legal publications.