Growth Companies

Growth Companies

When a startup is growing into a scaleup and seeks to enter the international market, the strong growth phase will bring new challenges: how to ensure personnel resources, protect IP rights and ensure proper corporate governance and sufficient financing and cash flow.

We speak your language. We have a long-standing experience in working with founder-led and venture-backed companies and continuously support growth and technology companies in reaching their goals. We offer comprehensive legal advice for growth companies from seed-stage startups to mature scaleups and act as their strategic partner in fundraisings, M&A transactions and exit scenarios.

We walk with you as you grow and scale up our offering to meet your own growth path and the resources of your team. You will find just the right legal experts at our firm to meet your evolving legal needs. We advise on issues related to venture and growth capital, corporate governance, incentive plans, employment law, technology law and IP protection as well as tax and related structuring. Our clients include numerous startups and scaleups across different industries, and we have a particularly strong track record of assisting growth companies in the technology, energy, food, health technology and life science sector.

No matter how big or small, together with our international network we are able to quickly set up a cross-border deal team for any corporate transaction requiring legal support in multiple jurisdictions. Our international experience makes us a perfect partner for companies raising capital from international investors or aspiring to execute a cross-border M&A transaction or IPO. We have established long-term partnerships with Finnish and international investors, and collaborate with international law firms, financial advisors, and investment banks on an ongoing basis.

Our services include

  • Financing rounds
  • Corporate governance
  • Option programmes and share-based incentive schemes
  • IP protection
  • Tax
  • Employment law advice
  • M&A
  • Exit strategies and IPOs

Latest references

We advised Bionto Oy, a company offering industrial bio-solutions, in a financing arrangement where Korpi Capital made a EUR 4 million seed equity investment in the company. The execution of the investment requires that certain conditions specified in the investment documentation are met. Bionto is a Finnish early-stage biotechnology company that develops and produces sustainable, profitable and safe biotechnological solutions to support the green transition, business objectives and societal goals of various industrial operators.
Case published 8.7.2024
We advised Speechly, a Helsinki-based spoken language understanding company, on the company’s admission to Y Combinator’s accelerator program and the related corporate and tax matters. We advised Speechly on the rearranging of its existing capital structure into a US holding company by executing a so-called Delaware flip arrangement practically in a tax neutral manner. We also advised on tax and corporate structuring and agreements in relation to the rearrangement and Y Combinator’s investment process. Speechly, founded in 2016, provides accurate real-time Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tools and APIs. In 2021, the Finnish news media Talouselämä selected the software company as one of the ten most promising Finnish startups. The company’s previous investors include international venture capital funds such as Cherry Ventures, Seedcamp, Quantum Angels, Joyance Partners, Social Starts and Tiny.vc. Based in Silicon Valley, Y Combinator is a startup fund and one of the world’s leading technology startup accelerator programs. Every six months Y Combinator invests in a group of promising international startups that are admitted to its accelerator program out of over 10,000 applicants. Y Combinator’s investment portfolio includes companies such as Stripe, Airbnb, Dropbox, Doordash and Reddit. 
Case published 13.9.2022
We advised eBrands Holding Oy in its newest USD 30 million funding round. The new funding takes the company’s total funding to USD 50 million. The majority of the equity financing comes from Varma Pension Fund, Rettig Group and Veikko Laine Oy in addition to Icebreaker.vc and other private investors. eBrands is the leading brand aggregator in the Nordics. eBrands’ business is based on purchasing and evolving newer but already successful Nordic e-commerce brands and selling them globally. eBrands’ brand portfolio focuses on sustainability, wellness, sports and lifestyle products. Within its first year, eBrands acquired 18 brands and is aiming to add 10 more to its portfolio during 2022.
Case published 8.7.2022
We are acting as the legal advisor to Next Games Corporation in Netflix, Inc.’s voluntary public cash tender offer for all outstanding shares and stock options in Next Games Corporation. The tender offer values Next Games’ total equity at approximately EUR 65 million. The tender offer will enable Next Games to join Netflix as a core studio in a strategic region and key talent market, furthering the two companies’ shared vision and passion for games. Next Games is the first publicly listed mobile game developer and publisher in Finland, specialising in games based on entertainment franchises, such as movies, TV series or books. The developers of the critically acclaimed The Walking Dead games redefine the way franchise entertainment transforms into highly engaging service-based mobile games. Next Games works on multiple new games based on beloved global IPs. The Company’s latest game, Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales, is based on Netflix’s hit 80s horror drama series.
Case published 4.3.2022