Klaus Ilmonen Bio

Klaus Ilmonen advises on corporate transactions involving public corporations. His practice includes public takeovers, equity capital markets, and corporate governance of publicly traded corporations. He is recognised for his expertise in complex takeover situations and in international capital markets transactions. In public takeovers, Klaus has advised financial sponsors and industrial offerors and the boards and shareholders of acquired corporations. He has participated in drafting Finnish takeover regulation, including the first Helsinki Takeover Code. Klaus also advises on capital markets transactions, including IPOs, rights offerings, and private offers of securities. He has previously practised U.S. securities law in the London office of the U.S. law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where he represented European issuers and underwriters in international securities offerings. Klaus has been appointed professor of practice at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki and teaches corporate and securities law. He has also served on a consultative group for developing EU corporate finance regulation. Klaus has been deployed with Finnish forces in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Lebanon, and he serves as the managing director of the Mannerheim-Foundation in Finland.