Jenni Nygård

Partner, Helsinki

Biography

Overview

Jenni Nygård is a partner whose practice focuses on corporate and financial transactions, including capital market transactions as well as mergers and acquisitions. 

Her recent capital markets work has been in international equity and debt capital market transactions of primarily Finnish and other Nordic companies, including rights offerings, initial public offerings, equity-linked and debt offerings and tender offers. She also advises Finnish publicly-traded companies and other national and international corporate and investment banking clients on Finnish corporate and securities laws. 

Jenni has spent ten months on secondment to Stora Enso. Jenni joined the Firm in 2013. 

Bars and Courts
Finnish Bar Association
Education
LLM
University of Helsinki
Faculty of Law
Languages
English
Finnish

Experience

Representation of Sanoma, a listed learning and media company in Finland, on its inaugural €150 million offering of 4.000% social notes due 2027 on the Sustainable Debt Market of Nasdaq Helsinki. Nordea and Swedbank acted as joint lead managers.

Representation of Neste, a global producer of sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel and renewable feedstock solutions for various polymers and chemicals industry uses, on its issuance of €600 million 3.875% green bonds under EMTN programme.

Representation of Stora Enso, a global manufacturer of  renewable products in packaging, biomaterials and wooden construction, on €4 billion EMTN programme update and €1 billion green bonds issuance.

Representation of SEB, BNP Paribas, Citi and Nordea as the joint lead managers on Huhtamäki Oyj's offering of €500 million 4.25% senior unsecured sustainability-linked bond.

Representation of Kempower, a Finnish electric vehicle fast charging equipment and solutions manufacturer, on its €319 million IPO and the listing on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market Finland.

Representation of Duell, a leading Nordic powersports aftermarket distributor, on its €131 million IPO and First North Growth Market Finland listing.

Representation of Carnegie and Danske Bank as the joint global coordinators, and Nordea and OP Corporate Bank as the managers, on the €560 million IPO and Nasdaq Helsinki listing of Puuilo, a Finnish retail store chain.

Representation of SEB on the €112 million IPO of Betolar, a Finnish concrete materials technology company, on Nasdaq First North Growth Market Finland.

Representation of Finnair, the largest airline in Finland, on the offering of €400 million 4.250% senior unsecured notes due 2025 on Nasdaq Helsinki and the simultaneous cash tender offer for its existing €200 million 2.250% notes due 2022.

Representation of Orthex Corporation, a leading Nordic houseware company, as the issuer, and Sponsor Capital, a Finnish private equity company, as the ultimate owner and selling shareholder, on the initial public offering and listing on the official list of Nasdaq Helsinki of the shares in Orthex Corporation. 

Representation of Kemira, a Finnish chemicals company listed on Nasdaq Helsinki, as the issuer, on the offering of €200 million 1.000% notes due 2028, and the simultaneous cash tender offer for its existing €150 million 2.250% notes due 2022. 

Representation of Nordea, Citi and OP Corporate Bank as joint lead managers on the €200 million 10.25% capital securities offering and the simultaneous tender offer to all holders of the outstanding €200 million 7.875% capital securities of Finnair plc, the flag carrier and largest airline of Finland. The capital securities were offered for subscription through a book-building procedure and the capital securities were subsequently listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. Following this transaction, Finnair became the first European airline to complete a bond issuance since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. 

Representation of Nordea and Citi as the joint bookrunners and joint lead managers and OP Corporate Bank, SEB and Swedbank as the co-lead managers in the fully-underwritten €512 million rights offering of Finnair. 

Representation of Outokumpu, a Finnish stainless steel company listed on Nasdaq Helsinki, on its issue of €125 million senior unsecured convertible bonds due 2025 convertible into ordinary shares in Outokumpu. 

Representation of Metso Corporation, a world-leading industrial company offering equipment and services for the sustainable processing and flow of natural resources in the mining, aggregates, recycling and process industries, on the combination of Metso Minerals and Outotec Oyj under the name Metso Outotec, with the remainder of Metso, Metso Flow Control, becoming an independent separately listed company under the name Neles. 

Representation of Ahlstrom-Munksjö, a global leader in innovative and sustainable fiber-based materials and its shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki and Nasdaq Stockholm, in its offering of €100 million perpetual subordinated capital securities. 

Representation of SATO Corporation, a Finland-based real estate investment company, in relation to the establishment of its €1.5 billion euro medium term (EMTN) program, and notes issuances thereunder. 

Representation of Danske Bank, Nordea and OP as coordinators and lead managers, and DNB, Handelsbanken and Swedbank as lead managers, on Stockmann's, a Finnish company engaged in the retail trade, issue of €250 million senior secured notes due 2022 and a consent solicitation process regarding early repayment of Stockmann's existing €150 million notes due 2018. 

Representation of Neste, a Finnish refining and marketing company listed on Nasdaq Helsinki, on its issue of €500 million notes due 2022.