Biography
Jenni Nygård is a partner in the Firm's Capital Markets Group. Her practice focuses on corporate and financial transactions, including equity, equity-linked and debt capital markets, as well as public tender offers.
In the equity capital markets space, she has advised on a broad range of IPOs and secondary offerings. On the debt capital markets side, she has significant experience in bonds, hybrid bonds, equity-linked notes and EMTN programs for Nordic issuers. She also advises clients on public-to-private transactions.
In addition, Jenni advises Finnish publicly listed companies and a broad range of national and international corporate and investment banking clients on Finnish corporate and securities laws.
Jenni has further gained valuable experience across a wide range of transactions and corporate matters through an in-house secondment at a dual-listed company.
Experience
Representation of DNB Carnegie and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, as the joint global coordinators, and Danske Bank, as the joint bookrunner, on the initial public offering and listing on the Official List of Nasdaq Helsinki of Framery Group Plc, an industry pioneer and global leader in engineering and manufacturing soundproof pods, services, and solutions. At the offer price, Framery Group Plc had a market capitalization of approximately €633 million.
Representation of DNB Carnegie and Danske Bank, as the joint global coordinators, and Nordea, as the joint bookrunner, on the initial public offering and listing on the Official List of Nasdaq Helsinki of Posti Group Oyj, one of the leading delivery and fulfillment companies operating in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. At the offer price Posti Group Oyj had a market capitalization of approximately €303 million.
Representation of Helios Investment Partners and the bidder on the €131 million recommended cash tender offer for Tecnotree, a global provider of IT solutions for the management of services, products, customers and revenue for Communications Service Providers.
Representation of Sanoma, a listed learning and media company in Finland, on its inaugural €150 million offering of 4.000% social notes due 2027 on the Sustainable Debt Market of Nasdaq Helsinki. Nordea and Swedbank acted as joint lead managers.
Representation of Neste, a global producer of sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel and renewable feedstock solutions for various polymers and chemicals industry uses, on its issuance of €600 million 3.875% green bonds under EMTN programme.
Representation of Haier Smart Home, the flagship division of Haier Group, a leader in the global major home appliance industry, on its €580 million voluntary public cash tender offer for all the issued and outstanding shares in Purmo, a Helsinki-listed global heating and cooling solutions provider.
Representation of Georg Fischer AG, which offers products and solutions that enable safe transport of liquids and gases, as well as lightweight casting components and high precision manufacturing technologies with the purpose of becoming better every day, on its of EUR 2.1 billion voluntary recommended public cash tender offer for all the issued and outstanding shares in Uponor Corporation, a leading global provider of solutions that move water through cities, buildings and homes.
Representation of Stora Enso, a global manufacturer of renewable products in packaging, biomaterials and wooden construction, on €4 billion EMTN programme update and €1 billion green bonds issuance.
Representation of SEB, BNP Paribas, Citi and Nordea as the joint lead managers on Huhtamäki Oyj's offering of €500 million 4.25% senior unsecured sustainability-linked bond.
Representation of Kempower, a Finnish electric vehicle fast charging equipment and solutions manufacturer, on its €319 million IPO and the listing on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market Finland.
Representation of Duell, a leading Nordic powersports aftermarket distributor, on its €131 million IPO and First North Growth Market Finland listing.
Representation of Carnegie and Danske Bank as the joint global coordinators, and Nordea and OP Corporate Bank as the managers, on the €560 million IPO and Nasdaq Helsinki listing of Puuilo, a Finnish retail store chain.
Representation of SEB on the €112 million IPO of Betolar, a Finnish concrete materials technology company, on Nasdaq First North Growth Market Finland.
Representation of Finnair, the largest airline in Finland, on the offering of €400 million 4.250% senior unsecured notes due 2025 on Nasdaq Helsinki and the simultaneous cash tender offer for its existing €200 million 2.250% notes due 2022.
Representation of Orthex Corporation, a leading Nordic houseware company, as the issuer, and Sponsor Capital, a Finnish private equity company, as the ultimate owner and selling shareholder, on the initial public offering and listing on the official list of Nasdaq Helsinki of the shares in Orthex Corporation.
Representation of Kemira, a Finnish chemicals company listed on Nasdaq Helsinki, as the issuer, on the offering of €200 million 1.000% notes due 2028, and the simultaneous cash tender offer for its existing €150 million 2.250% notes due 2022.
Representation of Nordea, Citi and OP Corporate Bank as joint lead managers on the €200 million 10.25% capital securities offering and the simultaneous tender offer to all holders of the outstanding €200 million 7.875% capital securities of Finnair plc, the flag carrier and largest airline of Finland. The capital securities were offered for subscription through a book-building procedure and the capital securities were subsequently listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. Following this transaction, Finnair became the first European airline to complete a bond issuance since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.
Representation of Nordea and Citi as the joint bookrunners and joint lead managers and OP Corporate Bank, SEB and Swedbank as the co-lead managers in the fully-underwritten €512 million rights offering of Finnair.
Representation of Outokumpu, a Finnish stainless steel company listed on Nasdaq Helsinki, on its issue of €125 million senior unsecured convertible bonds due 2025 convertible into ordinary shares in Outokumpu.
Representation of Metso Corporation, a world-leading industrial company offering equipment and services for the sustainable processing and flow of natural resources in the mining, aggregates, recycling and process industries, on the combination of Metso Minerals and Outotec Oyj under the name Metso Outotec, with the remainder of Metso, Metso Flow Control, becoming an independent separately listed company under the name Neles.
Representation of Ahlstrom-Munksjö, a global leader in innovative and sustainable fiber-based materials and its shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki and Nasdaq Stockholm, in its offering of €100 million perpetual subordinated capital securities.
Representation of SATO Corporation, a Finland-based real estate investment company, in relation to the establishment of its €1.5 billion euro medium term (EMTN) program, and notes issuances thereunder.