Roschier strengthens its Tax team by recruiting a Tax counsel….Jouni Weckström

Roschier strengthens its leading Tax and Corporate Structuring practice through the recruitment of Jouni Weckström, who joins Roschier’s Helsinki office on 23 April. Jouni Weckström is a widely recognized practitioner, who has broad experience in tax law with a special focus on corporate income taxation. Weckström joins Roschier from Finnish law firm Bützow.

By adding on Weckström to its team, Roschier continues to broaden and deepen its capabilities in the area of complex tax and corporate structuring work, offering its clients increasingly integrated services in this field. Weckström will have an important role in developing and strengthening the firm’s tax practice with Partner Mika Ohtonen, who heads the team.

Roschier’s Tax team provides seamless tax and structuring advice as part of the firm’s market-leading transactional practice. The clients of the team include a large number of leading corporations, several international investment banks and securities brokers, Finnish and international private equity investors, as well as family-owned companies. During 2011 the team advised on many of the most complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions in the region, including the largest industrial deal by volume in Finland. Roschier’s Tax and Corporate Structuring practice is ranked Tier 1 by all major publications.