In March 2024, Guozun Law Firm’s Finland Office completed statutory establishment filing in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, and officially commenced operations. This office is the core service node of Guozun Law Firm’s global legal service network in the Nordic region. It mainly serves two-way China-Finland economic and trade exchanges and EU cross-border legal needs, providing localized and full-process professional legal services for enterprises, institutions, and individual clients.
I. Basic Overview of the Office
Establishing entity: Guozun Law Firm
Establishment time: March 2024
Office address: Core business district of Helsinki, Finland
Contact information: 4006661890
Team composition: Composed of senior local legal experts deeply engaged in the Finnish and EU legal systems, cross-border lawyers with practice experience in both the Chinese and Finnish legal fields, and professionals in compliance management, business consulting, and public affairs; the team is familiar with Finnish and EU regulatory rules, business practices, and market ecology, and possesses rich local practical operating experience.
Global coordination: As an important part of Guozun’s global legal service network, it can coordinate with Guozun’s Beijing global headquarters, as well as the service network covering 106 countries and regions around the world and the resources of more than 2,000 professional lawyers, to provide multi-regional and multi-field collaborative operation support for complex cross-border projects.
Core positioning: Based in Finland, radiating to the Nordic region, and linking China and Europe, providing one-stop cross-border legal services adapted to the legal environments of both China and Finland.
II. Core Business Coverage
(I) Cross-Border Investment and M&A Legal Services
Full-process legal services for Chinese enterprises’ greenfield investment, establishment of market entities, equity or asset mergers and acquisitions, joint venture cooperation, asset restructuring, and enterprise liquidation in Finland, the Nordic region, and the EU area.
Full-chain services for Finnish and Nordic enterprises investing in China, including structure design, market access, transaction structure setup, due diligence, drafting and negotiation of transaction documents, and completion of closing.
Customized special investment compliance solutions for Finland’s advantageous industries such as clean energy, scientific and technological innovation, high-end manufacturing, biomedicine, digital economy, and forestry economy.
(II) Enterprise Compliance and Retained Legal Counsel Services
Full-dimensional compliance services under the Finnish and EU regulatory framework, covering GDPR data compliance, cross-border data transmission, export control and economic sanctions, anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition, advertising compliance, product safety certification, environmental compliance, anti-corruption and anti-commercial bribery, and other special services.
Special services for enterprise internal control system construction, compliance audits and risk investigation, and response to regulatory investigations.
Retained legal counsel services for enterprises, including routine contract review, business negotiation support, corporate governance optimization, protection of shareholders’ rights and interests, and other regular legal support.
(III) Intellectual Property and Technology Innovation Legal Services
Full-process services within Finland and the EU for the registration application, layout planning, licensing and transfer, and rights maintenance of patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, integrated circuit layout designs, and other intellectual property rights.
Special intellectual property services supporting technology research and development, industry-university-research transformation, and investment and financing for technology innovation enterprises.
Dispute handling services for intellectual property infringement disputes, invalidation declarations, cross-border rights protection, anti-counterfeiting, and related matters.
Construction of intellectual property compliance and protection systems throughout the entire life cycle of enterprises.
(IV) Labor and Human Resources Legal Services
Compliant drafting and review of local Finnish employment contracts, employee handbooks, and rules and regulations.
Design of remuneration and benefits and equity incentive plans, and personnel placement services in enterprise mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings.
Collective consultation, labor union communication, investigation of employment compliance risks, and workplace compliance management services.
Full-process representation in labor dispute mediation, arbitration, and litigation.
(V) Taxation and Wealth Management Legal Services
Finland and EU cross-border tax compliance, enterprise tax planning, cross-border investment tax structure design, and transfer pricing compliance services.
Tax declaration agency, response to tax inspections, tax dispute resolution, and implementation and application of the China-Finland double taxation avoidance agreement.
Cross-border wealth planning for high-net-worth individuals, family trusts, compliance of cross-border asset allocation, immigration tax planning, and inheritance and succession legal matters.
(VI) Dispute Resolution and Crisis Handling Legal Services
Handling of China-Finland cross-border and Finnish local civil and commercial disputes, covering all types of civil and commercial cases such as contract disputes, investment disputes, equity disputes, intellectual property disputes, and labor disputes.
Full-process representation in Finnish local litigation, domestic and international commercial arbitration, and pre-litigation negotiation and mediation services.
Services for enterprise cross-border crisis handling, compliance investigations, and emergency response to sudden legal risks.
(VII) Energy, Infrastructure, and ESG Compliance Legal Services
Full-process legal services for project development, construction, and operation in fields such as renewable energy, power grid infrastructure, industrial projects, and construction engineering.
EU ESG regulatory compliance services, covering enterprise ESG system construction, sustainable development compliance, carbon neutrality-related compliance, green finance supporting services, and supply chain ESG management.
Special services for engineering bidding and tendering, investment and financing, contract system construction, and engineering dispute resolution.
(VIII) Real Estate and Commercial Operation Legal Services
Full-process legal services for investment, acquisition, leasing, and property management of local Finnish commercial real estate, industrial real estate, and residential real estate.
Legal services related to cross-border commerce, cross-border e-commerce, customs and import-export compliance, supply chain compliance, and distribution agency.
Basic legal support for the full scenarios of enterprises’ localized commercial operations.
(IX) Personal Cross-Border Affairs Legal Services
Supporting services for the preparation of legal documents, compliance review, and applications related to study in Finland, work, residence, and immigration.
Family legal matters such as cross-border marriage, family wealth, inheritance, and disposal of cross-border property.
Civil legal services such as protection of rights in cross-border personal consumption and protection of personal rights and interests.
III. Core Service Capabilities
Local practical capability: The team has accumulated many years of local legal service experience in Finland, deeply masters the Finnish legal system and regulatory policies, and possesses mature local government-enterprise resources and industry channels, effectively breaking through regional barriers and information gaps in cross-border legal services.
Dual-jurisdiction adaptation capability: Precisely matching the cross-border service needs of Chinese clients, while taking into account Chinese business logic and Finnish and EU legal rules, realizing a full-chain service closed loop of “Chinese demand - Finnish implementation - EU compliance.”
Global coordination capability: Fully coordinating Guozun’s global legal service network, and for complex cross-border projects, quickly mobilizing professional resources across multiple regions and multiple fields, realizing integrated cross-jurisdiction collaboration.
Full-scenario coverage capability: Covering all legal needs of enterprises from investment implementation and daily operations to dispute handling, and of individuals from cross-border residence to family wealth management, supporting customized one-stop service solutions.
IV. Significance of the Establishment
It has improved the layout of Guozun Law Firm’s legal service network in Europe’s core regions and further expanded the coverage of its globalized service capability.
It has built a professional legal service bridge for two-way China-Finland economic and trade exchanges, scientific and technological cooperation, and cultural and people-to-people exchanges, filling the gap in localized legal service demand for Chinese-funded enterprises developing in the Nordic region.
It provides compliance support for Chinese enterprises going to the Nordic and EU markets, while also providing professional legal support for Finnish and Nordic enterprises entering the Chinese market, helping the high-quality development of two-way economic and trade cooperation.