Pauliina Heikkonen

Associate, Helsinki

Biography

Overview

Pauliina Heikkonen advises Finnish and international clients in corporate and financial transactions, representing lenders as well as corporate clients. Pauliina's debt finance experience includes acquisition finance, real estate finance, project finance and general bank lending.

Prior to joining White & Case in 2023, Pauliina gained experience in financial transactions at another law firm in Helsinki as well as during secondment to a large corporate bank.

Education
LLM
Faculty of Law
University of Helsinki
Languages
Finnish
English

Experience

Representation of Sato Oyj, one of Finland's leading housing providers, in connection with an EUR 150,000,000 secured, sustainability linked term loan facility with Legal & General Investment Management's dedicated UK and European Real Estate Debt Division. The loan has a 12-year tenor and will be used for general financing purposes and refinancing existing indebtedness.

Representation of Valmet, a Finland-based global developer and supplier of process technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries, on its €380 million acquisition of Körber's Business Area Tissue, a tissue packaging technologies and services provider.

Representation of Antilooppi Ky, a real-estate investment firm in the Helsinki region, in its financing package, worth over half a billion euros. The financing consist of a ten-year €40 million financing agreement with Nordic Investment Bank to finance the Siltasaari 10's LEED Platinum renovation project and a three-year €528.4 million sustainability-linked financing agreement with Nordea, OP, SEB and Danske Bank covering the majority of the other assets in the portfolio.