Bird & Bird LLP

Energy; Capital Markets

Laura Huomo is a partner in our Real Estate & Infrastructure group in Helsinki, heading our Energy practice. In addition, she works with our Corporate and M&A Group with equity and debt related transactions.

Laura has 20 years of experience working for both Nordic and international law firms. She works with energy companies, municipalities, municipality owned companies and governments to navigate successful solutions within the energy transition. She assists her clients with regulatory issues, project structures, legal risk matrixes and energy related M&A activity.

Further, Laura advises companies with their initial public offerings, share issues and rights offerings as well as debt issues. To her great delight, energy companies are also looking into tapping into the capital markets as part of their strategic planning, and in those transactions, she can combine her two strongest areas, energy and capital markets expertise to the benefit of her clients.

Having followed both the energy sector and the capital markets for two decades, Laura can bring strong execution certainty to the constantly moving energy space. In cooperation with her clients, they make strategies for their successful projects and aims to always be two steps ahead in making the project structure flexible enough to stand the changes in the developing energy regulation. She assists new companies just starting their life as public companies, first maturing their corporate structures to meet the requirements of a public company and taking on the responsibilities of a listed company, and then supporting them through the actual listing process and their future status as stock listed companies.

Laura was seconded to the Nordic Investment Bank early in her career where she was involved in a large international project finance transaction. Working for a financial institution gave her a great opportunity to learn how financiers think and what are the building blocks of a successful infrastructure project. She was also seconded to Baltic Connector Oy, a government owned company which was responsible for the construction of the Balticconnector pipeline between Finland and Estonia and was very much involved in the opening of the Finnish gas markets. At Baltic Connector, Laura was responsible, as their chief legal officer, for the legal aspects of the construction of the pipeline and the related agreements.

Finnish, English

Member of the Finnish Bar Association

Member of the New York State Bar Association

Ph.D., University of Helsinki 2013

Research Scholar, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2003

Ll. Lic., University of Helsinki 2002

LL.M., University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2001

LL.M., University of Helsinki 1999