Bird & Bird acted as a legal counsel for the public listed company Lehto Group Plc ("Lehto") in connection with its oversubscribed EUR 20 million rights issue. The terms and conditions of the offering were published on November 18, 2020 and the final result on December 16, 2020.

"This is an important transaction for our growing capital markets practice in Finland, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank both of the very skillful team of Lehto as well as the excellent equity capital markets team at OP Corporate Bank plc, which acted as the lead manager of the offering.", says Counsel Mika Puurunen, who led the Bird & Bird's team.

"We have been very satisfied with Bird & Bird's advice in connection with the offering. Working with them has been a pleasure", says Veli-Pekka Paloranta, CFO of Lehto.

Bird & Bird's core team consisted of Mika Puurunen, Krista Keinänen, Sofia Oesch and Mikko Ahonen.