Emma Niemistö is a partner at Borenius Attorneys in Helsinki and heads the firm’s Projects & Construction practice group.
With more than 15 years of experience, Emma is recognized as a leading name for construction law in Finland and is consistently ranked top of her field in international legal directories. Her team handles some of the most significant investment projects in the market, providing one-stop advice from project conception to completion. Emma focuses particularly on major industrial and infrastructure investments, stand-alone construction and engineering mandates, as well as prominent real estate development projects.
Emma has robust experience in negotiating and drafting complex project agreements, be it on EPC or EPCM basis or consisting of a disaggregated procurement plan requiring careful interface management between the main construction contracts and various equipment supply agreements or OFCI procurements. She is also well versed in assisting on any consultancy agreements as well as operation and maintenance agreements relating to large-scale projects.
Emma’s references include some of the most high-profile public-private partnership (PPP), commercial real estate development, renewable energy, hospital, road, rail and industrial projects in the Finnish market. Most recently, Emma and her team have been active especially in an increa...
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“Her expertise is second to none”
“She is a true hands-on specialist in construction, mastering both the legal and the practical”
“She adopts a proactive and solution-oriented approach, consistently delivering high-quality legal work in the field of construction”
"She combines clear expertise in Finnish contract law and practice with a solid understanding of relevant international models and her confident, pragmatic guidance helped us avoid over-complicating terms"