Tuomo Kauttu

Aliant Finland attorneys assist foreign companies to do business and invest in Finland and the Nordic region, while also helping Finnish companies with overseas matters. The Finland practice offers the highest quality legal services with the team of experienced and well recognized professionals. 

We assist businesses with commercial transactions and international operations in a diverse collection of industries, including technology, machinery, manufacturing, energy, airline, retail, construction and real estate. We provide corporate law services to our clients and advise them on corporate governance issues. We help high-tech companies in developing tomorrow’s technologies and managing risks arising from intellectual property issues. We represent corporate clients, institutional investors, individuals and others, in acquisitions and other transactions involving the purchase or sale of businesses. We help developers and contractors in the purchase and development of real estate, as well as the construction and leasing of facilities. Our attorneys assist clients in resolving business disputes through negotiation, mediation, arbitration or litigation.   

Aliant Finland was organized in November 2017 when Kauttu & Co joined Aliant. Kauttu & Co was founded from a well-established, Helsinki based law firm that was founded in 1951. 

Tuomo Kauttu is a partner at Aliant, an international law firm and the head of the Aliant practice in Finland.

Tuomo is a member of the firm's Corporate Practice Group, and he regularly represents corporations, with more than 20 years' experience advising his clients on cross-border business transactions, international projects, technology commerce, mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate governance and other complex corporate matters. Over the past 25 years Tuomo has worked on over a thousand business transactions, deals or corporate matters.

Tuomo graduated from the University of Helsinki with a Master of Laws degree and received his postgraduate LL.M. from the University of Washington. The focus of the LL.M. program was on corporate law and corporate taxation, mergers & acquisitions, investments, and business planning.

After graduating and court training, Tuomo worked for a bank, specializing in corporate finance. Subsequently, he worked as an attorney intern at a New York law firm for one year. Since 1996, he has practiced business law in Helsinki.

Tuomo is a member of the Finnish Bar Association and an associate member of the American Bar Association (ABA) where he serves on both the International Business Law Committee and the committee on Mergers and Acquisitions. He is a representative of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Finland delegation, and a member of the ICC Commission on Commercial Law and Practice, and IPR Commission. He also serves on the Advisory Group of the Boardman Ltd, a leading organization developing active ownership and board work competences in Finland. Tuomo has published numerous professional articles and continues to lecture at various institutes in Finland and abroad.