Kristiina Hirva

Kristiina Hirva practices primarily in the area of banking and finance, with a particular emphasis on financial regulatory and compliance advisory to domestic and foreign clients. Kristiina regularly advises financial institutions subject to supervision, insurance companies and non-bank lenders in various regulatory issues, including licences and notifications, permissibility and structuring of financial activities and products, drafting of client and marketing documentation, anti-money laundering compliance and cross-border offering of financial services and products. She also advices the clients with regulatory matters related to acquisitions and transactions. An important aspect of her practice involves tracking rapid market and regulatory changes and provision of comparative assessments of regulations across the DLA Piper jurisdictions.

In addition to the financial regulatory matters, she also advises clients regularly on various financing arrangements. Having worked for several years as in-house counsel at a leading Nordic bank, she possesses deep understanding and practical knowledge, among others, of leasing and factoring contracts. As regards capital markets matters, Kristiina is continuously advising major Finnish issuers in relation to their MTN and ECP programmes.