Jaakko Henriksson

Jaakko Henriksson

Associate, Helsinki
Jaakko Henriksson
Jaakko Henriksson

Jaakko Henriksson

Associate, Helsinki
Jaakko Henriksson

Biography

Jaakko Henriksson is an associate within White & Case's EMEA Private Equity Group and Global M&A Practice. He advises corporates and private equity sponsors on a wide range of cross-border transactions, including acquisitions and disposals, public takeovers, joint ventures, and growth equity investments. He also has extensive experience in equity and debt capital markets transactions in Finland.

Prior to joining White & Case in 2025, Jaakko worked for several years at a leading Nordic law firm in Helsinki and for a bit over half a year as a secondee at Finland's largest financial services group.

Experience

Representation of Evli, a leading Nordic investment and wealth management company, on Bregal Milestone's majority investment in Evli Alexander Incentives and a strategic partnership with Bregal Milestone.*

Representation of Fortum on the sale of its recycling and waste business to thematic impact investing firm Summa Equity, through its portfolio company NG Group. The debt-free purchase price of the transaction was approximately €800 million.*

Representation of the exiting shareholders, IAIK, Kaski Capital, and Eero Kaski, of pre-owned car retailer Suomen Autokauppa Ltd (Saka) on a transaction where Finnish mutual pension companies Ilmarinen and Elo made equity investments in the company.*

Representation of Voisin Consulting Life Sciences on the acquisition of MedEngine, a leading medical science agency in the Nordics.*

Representation of Avesco AG on the acquisition of Vatupassi Törmälä.*

Representation of F-Secure on the separation of its consumer security business and the listing of the company established in connection with the demerger.*

Representation of Caverion on the voluntary public tender offers made by two competing bidders: Crayfish BidCo (controlled by Triton) and North Holdings 3 (a consortium formed by Bain Capital and certain shareholders of Caverion). The completed tender offer by Crayfish BidCo valued Caverion's total equity at approximately €1.1 billion.*

Representation of Purmo Group on the voluntary public cash tender offer made by a consortium consisting of certain affiliated funds of Apollo Global Management and Rettig Oy Ab.*

Representation of Bilot on the merger of Bilot and Vincit, with both companies' shares listed on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market Finland.*

Representation of Efecte on the voluntary public cash tender offer made by European 24 Bidco (a wholly owned subsidiary of Matrix42 Holding GmbH, the holding entity of Matrix42 Group, which provides innovative software solutions for digital workspace management and is owned by funds advised by Corten).*

Representation of Fingrid, Finland's transmission system operator, on the Finnish law aspects of the update of its EMTN program.*

Representation of Metsä Board on the issuance of €200 million senior unsecured green notes.*

Representation of WithSecure on a successful accelerated book-build share issue to selected institutional investors.*

Representation of Digital Workforce Services on the initial public offering and listing on Nasdaq First North Growth Market Finland.*

Representation of Norrhydro Group on the initial public offering and listing on Nasdaq First North Growth Market Finland.*

Representation of EcoUp on the initial public offering and listing on Nasdaq First North Growth Market Finland.*

Representation of Solwers on the initial public offering and listing on Nasdaq First North Growth Market Finland.*

*Matters prior to working for White & Case

Finland
LLM
Faculty of Law
University of Helsinki
MSc
Economics and Business Administration, Department of Finance
Aalto University
Finnish
English

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