Helena Kalmanlehto specializes in conflict management and commercial dispute resolution.
Helena advises and represents clients in all phases of legal conflicts and disputes in a wide range of industries and fields of law. She has particularly strong expertise in cases related to real estate, construction and engineering, energy, various commercial contracts, shareholders’ agreements and share purchase agreements, insolvency situations and the protection of creditors’ rights, as well as general contract law and a variety of damage and liability issues.
She has been recognized for her deep understanding of conflict avoidance, legal risk management and effective negotiation strategies in contract drafting and day-to-day claims management. Helena has over a decade of experience in representing clients in litigation and arbitration procedures and she has been involved in numerous complex and large-scale disputes during her career.
Helena’s in-depth knowledge of alternative dispute resolution and mediation theory enables her to advise clients on a wide range of dispute resolution strategies and to achieve a favourable outcome in mediation or negotiation. Helena is a CEDR (The Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution) Accredited Mediator and an accredited mediator of the Finnish Bar Association, and she accepts mediation assignment of commercial disputes.
Helena is a member of the Finnish Bar Association’s Legal Expert Team on Civil Process Law as well as the Finnish Bar Association’s Mediation Committee.
Helena is endorsed in The Legal 500, an international directory evaluating leading law firms and lawyers, in which she is “noted for her experience representing clients in commercial and corporate litigation, construction claims and insolvency proceedings”.
