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2025

• Ratiolex represents a Finnish real estate consulting company owned by an American investor as the claimant in arbitration proceedings conducted in English in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the Finland Chamber of Commerce (FAI) concerning consulting fees, 10/2025-.

• Ratiolex’s partner acts as the sole arbitrator appointed jointly by the parties in arbitration proceedings under the Arbitration Rules of the Finland Chamber of Commerce (FAI) concerning a product supply agreement in the agricultural sector, 9/2025-.

• Ratiolex represents a real estate service company as the claimant in a dispute concerning renovation works at the District Court of Länsi-Uusimaa, 9/2025-.

• Ratiolex represented a Finnish transport company as a respondent in an employment contract dispute in the District Court of Itä-Uusimaa, 8/2025-9/2025: the matter was closed by amicable negotiation in favor of our client.

• Ratiolex represents a franchisor operating as a Finnish representative of one of the world’s largest real estate chains in a contractual dispute concerning a non-competition clause, 8/2025-.

• Ratiolex successfully represented a Finnish construction company as a claimant and a respondent of a counterclaim which acted as a project management contractor in an ad hoc arbitration proceeding over MEUR 3, based on a project management contract, conducted under the Finnish Arbitration Act applying the YSE 1998 terms and conditions, 4/2024-8/2025: the arbitral award on 8 August 2025, in which our client’s claims and rebuttals were mainly accepted. Our client’s counterparty was ordered to reimburse our client’s legal costs and to pay 2/3 of the arbitrator’s fees and costs.

• Ratiolex represents a Finnish subsidiary of a foreign group of companies in a case concerning an objection against a decision of a shareholders’ meeting before the Helsinki Court of Appeal 7/2025-.

• Ratiolex advises a Finnish subsidiary of an international group of companies in proceedings concerning the setting aside and nullification of a partial arbitral award issued abroad in the District Court of Helsinki, 6/2025-.

• Ratiolex successfully represented in the Court of Appeal of Helsinki a well-known actor who claimed compensation of EUR 300,000 from a limited liability company selling underwear on the basis that the company had no right to use the actor’s name, image and voice in television, radio and internet advertising campaign, 8/2023-6/2025: the Court of Appeal of Helsinki’s judgment of 18 June 2025, in which the Court of Appeal overturned the District Court’s judgment and ordered our client’s opponent party to pay our client the compensation of EUR 300,000, including interest for late payment, and to compensate our client’s legal costs incurred in the District Court and Court of Appeal in full.

• Ratiolex represents a claimant from Monaco against an Italian respondent in arbitration proceedings of MEUR 1 conducted in English under the Rules for Expedited Arbitration of the Finland Chamber of Commerce (FAI) relating to a Share Purchase Agreement, 5/2025-.

• Ratiolex represents a corporation from the United States of America in recognition and enforcement proceedings in Finland concerning a foreign arbitral award rendered under the SCC Arbitration Rules, 5/2025-. The claims of the US corporation were mainly accepted by three arbitrators in a final arbitral award, in which the applicable law was Swedish law, the seat of arbitration was Stockholm, Sweden, and the language of the proceedings was English.

• Ratiolex represents a state in legal proceedings worth of EUR 2.6 billion in Finland concerning the international energy treaty (The European Charter Treaty, 1994). The case relates to a large international set of legal proceedings wherein several arbitrations and litigations have been conducted in several different countries and are still pending in several countries, 4/2025-.

• Ratiolex successfully represented a Finnish company as a respondent and a counterclaimant in a service contract dispute before the Helsinki District Court, 5/2023-4/2025: the District Court’s judgment whereby our client’s opponent party’s claims were dismissed in their entirety and the opponent party was ordered to pay all of our client’s legal costs in full.

• Ratiolex represents one of the leading Finnish boats selling companies as a respondent in a sale of goods dispute in the District Court of Itä-Uusimaa, 3/2025-.

• Ratiolex represents a Finnish transport company as a respondent in a subcontract related dispute in the District Court of Itä-Uusimaa, 3/2025-.

• Ratiolex represents a state before the District Court of Helsinki in EUR 4 billion investment protection treaty related dispute concerning the recognition and enforcement of a foreign arbitral award. The competent courts of the place of arbitration, lex arbitri, have already set aside certain grounds of the arbitral award, and the setting aside proceedings are still pending before a competent foreign court of the place of arbitration. Applications for recognition and enforcement of the arbitral award have been stayed for example in the US and UK, 2/2025-.

• Ratiolex represented a real estate investor as the respondent in 0.8 MEUR damages dispute initiated by the client, wherein the contractor and consultant of the site acted as an intervening party on our client’s side, in the District Court of Helsinki, 11/2023-2/2025: the matter was closed by amicable negotiation in favor of our client.

• Ratiolex successfully represented the claimant and counterclaim’s respondent, Finland’s largest company providing subcontracting services to photographic companies, in arbitration proceedings under the Arbitration Rules of the Finland Chamber of Commerce (FAI) regarding contractual disputes and the IT2022 YSE terms and conditions, 11/2024-1/2025: the matter was closed by amicable negotiation in favor of our client when the opponent party paid an amicable compensation of MEUR 0,34 to our client.

• Ratiolex advises a Finnish aircraft and helicopter maintenance company on the administrative process related to the maintenance of a foreign helicopter, 1/2025-.

• Ratiolex successfully represented the respondent, a Finnish company belonging to one of the world’s largest international restaurant franchising chains, in a dispute concerning the termination of an employment contract before the District Court of Helsinki, 2/2023-1/2025: the District Court of Helsinki’s judgment on 20 January 2025, whereby the claimant’s claims were dismissed and the claimant was ordered to pay our client’s legal costs.