Jori Taipale is managing partner of Bird & Bird's Helsinki office. He specialises in mergers & acquisitions, banking and competition. Jori was managing partner of Fennica Attorneys before its merger with Bird & Bird, and he has previously also worked as an associate and junior partner in another leading Finnish firm, as well as a visiting lawyer in a Magic Circle firm in London.

Jori has extensive experience advising on a wide range of mergers & acquisitions, private equity and finance transactions as well as various competition law assignments. He has for several years been listed as a recommended lawyer in the leading international legal directories, such as Chambers Global, Chambers Europe and the European Legal 500.

Jori was educated at the University of Helsinki (LLM) and is a member of the Finnish Association for Competition Law, the Finnish Industrial Property Rights Association, Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Industrielle (AIPPI), the Finnish Franchising Asoociation and the Finnish Association for Arbitration.