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. In addition, she regularly advises clients on public procurement proceedings.
- University of Helsinki, Master of Laws, 1999
- Finnish Bar Association
- 2016 to 2020, Counsel, DLA Piper Finland Attorneys Ltd
- 2007 to 2016, Counsel, Senior Associate Finnish law firm
- 1999 to 2007, Legal Counsel, Nordea Finance Finland Ltd
- Endorsed in Legal 500 EMEA 2021
- Endorsed in Legal 500 EMEA 2022
- Endorsed in Legal 500 EMEA 2023
- Endorsed in Legal 500 EMEA 2024
- Endorsed in Chambers FinTech 2023