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Otso Nykänen

Attorney-at-law, Trained on the bench

Expertise areas: Labor law, insolvency, contract law and dispute resolution

Otso Nykänen specializes in labor and contract law, insolvency as well as Dispute Resolution. Otso has a long experience on assisting and advising national organizations and SMEs on questions broadly related to their operations.

 

Otso has also a long-term experience on family law and inheritance matters as well as other fields of law concerning private people. Through his work experience Otso has become familiar with IPR and environmental law.  

 

 

Career

2014  Attorneys-at-law Ruoholahti Ltd, attorney-at-law

1996-2014  Otso Nykänen Attorneys-at-law office

1994-1995  Mikko Tuononen Attorneys-at-law office

1992-1993  Reijo Savia Attorneys-at-law

1992  Helsinki City Court

1990-1991  Juva District Court, Notary, acting District Judge

1989  Patent Office Ruska & Co

1988-1989  Finnish National Board of Maritime, Legal Department, Administration Department

 

Education

 

1998  Certified Mediator, Finnish Bar Association

1991  Trained on the Bench

1990  Master of Laws, University of Helsinki 

 

Positions of Trust

2019-  Finnish Bar Association, Member of a Delegation

2019-  The Association of Finnish Lawyers, Member of Committee of the Legal Policy

2000-  The Association of Finnish Lawyers, Member of the Committee of the business sector

1997-2019  The Association of Finnish Lawyers, member of the private sector working group

2010-2016  Finnish Bar Association, Member of a Delegation

2002-2003  The Association of Finnish Lawyers, Member of the Board

2014-2018  The Association of Finnish Lawyers, mentor

2001-2004  The Association of Private sector lawyers, chairman (YKLA)

 

The Unemployment Fund for Entrepreneurs and the Self-Employed, Executive Committee and the Board

Akava Uusimaa, Chairman

 

Akava, Taskforce of Entrepreneurs and the Self-Employed

 

Uusimaa Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment’s Advisory Board, Member

 

Uusimaa Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment’s Advisory Board, Committee of Immigration

Languages

 

Finnish, English

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otso.nykanen@ruoholahtilaw.fi

+ 358 10 219 4440

+ 358 50 410 0960

Our team

 

Lawyers: 

Jussi Laasonen

Otso Nykänen

Laura Pelttari

Aku Rantasalo

Tero Reponen

Legal Trainees:

Joona Korkiakoski

Tapio Valve

Aino Laasonen

Office: 

Marjukka Laasonen

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