Bird & Bird LLP

Employment

Maisa Nikkola is a partner in our Helsinki office, where she is Head of our Nordic and Finnish Employment practice groups as well as our Finnish Employee Incentives & Benefits group. She advises our local and international clients on complex employment issues.

Focusing on all aspects of employment relations, Maisa advises clients on a broad range of employment and HR matters on a daily basis including transactions, contractual issues, the negotiation and termination of contracts, collective and trade union matters, co-operation procedures, restructuring and discrimination.

In addition to employment law, Maisa specialises in outsourcing, trade secret issues and privacy and data protection. She has experience in complex litigation matters.

Her team is regularly working on a broad range of cross-border projects and they have an excellent network with colleagues located all over the world at our Bird & Bird offices. They have longstanding experience in taking an innovative and strategic approach to their work. Her team is often thanked for being an everyday strategic partner for their clients.

You'll find her recognised and reviewed as a Leading Employment Lawyer by international directories including Legal 500, Chambers and Partners, The Best Lawyers and PLC Which Lawyer. She was recognised as 'The Lawyer of the Year 2014 – Labour and Employment Law' and 'The Lawyer of the Year 2016 – Outsourcing' by the Best Lawyers.

Maisa is a frequent conference speaker on a wide range of employment law issues and is co-author of the book "Solutions for working life challenges" (J-Impact, 2012).

Finnish, English, German, Swedish

Member in the Employment Law Expert Group of the Finnish Bar Association

Member of the Finnish Bar Association

Member of the Labour Law Association

Member of the EELA – European Employment Lawyers’ Association

Member of the Finnish Association for Human Resource Management HENRY

Member of the Finnish Franchising Association

LL.M., University of Helsinki 2002