Asianajotoimisto Kari Silvennoinen Ky - Attorneys at Law

Our office

Our law firm was founded in 1983 in Helsinki, Finland. Since then we have been serving our clients in the Helsinki city centre; at the moment our central office is located in the Ullanlinna neighbourhood just opposite the Church of St. John (Johanneksenkirkko), at the address: Korkeavuorenkatu 19 A. For clients' needs, because of the business development, in year 2007 we opened our second office outside Finland in Russia which is located now at the new business-center «Akviolon» near the centre of St-Petersburg.

We want to maintain an open attitude and be an easily approachable, judicially accurate and reliable partner for our clients. We assure high-quality handling of all assignments at a reasonable fee. We also work to make sure that our clients understand their judicial position at all stages of the matter.

We do not specialize in any one type of legal services, we can represent clients' interests in any court of Finland and Russia; we have experience of work in the European Court on Human Rights. We work with medium and small companies as well as with private persons paying equal attention to any project or judicial case conducted by our office.

If you are an entrepreneur, an owner or a representative of Finnish legal entity then we will recommend you how to correctly start and further organize activity of your branch or a daughter company in Russia, we will open your legal entity an account in a Russian bank, help you in establishing and legally correct formalizing of relationships with your partner from Russia, check his reliability and honesty, help in obtaining of investment privileges. We could open a representative office or register a company both in Russia and Finland as well as legally support your business on the territory of a foreign state keeping you from possible mistakes. We will check and give an unbiased estimation of your Russian managers' work or of your Russian partner's actions that you do not understand. We will provide for active defence of interests of your company in Arbitration courts, administrative courts and courts of general jurisdiction both on the territory of all Finland and in St-Petersburg, Petrozavodsk, Murmansk and in the whole North-west region. Besides, we can conduct your affairs in Moscow and other towns of the Russian Federation.

If you are a physical person and need assistance of a professional barrister in Russia in searching a real estate object, an apartment for living or a land plot for a business activity, in providing for guaranties when buying it, in a family dispute with your Russian spouse, in formalisation of an inheritance in Russia as well as in defence in the course of a police investigation then our specialists will render you all necessary assistance in these questions, too. To serve our private clients in Finland, we specialize also in providing assistance within testamentary and other inheritance matters.

The key persons

Managing partner, Finnish desk operator
Finnish and English languages for contact

Mr. Kari Silvennoinen, Advocate

• 1997, LL.M. with court training at the Supreme Court, Helsinki;
• 1989, Helsinki, Bar Admission;
• 1985, University of Helsinki, LL.M.
• 1980, University of Helsinki, LL.B.
• Post-graduate studies in general Civil Law at the University of Helsinki

Managing partner, Russian desk operator
English and Russian languages for contact

Mr. Vasily Davydov, Advocate

• 2006, PhD of Law, St-Petersburg, Russia;
• 2002-2006, post-graduate study, economy violations of the law;
• 2001, Bar Admission;
• 2000, state diploma at Civil Law;
• 1987, state diploma at Economy studies.

Fees and confidentiality

Our hourly or fixed fees are based on agreements. Otherwise we observe the fee recommendations of the Finnish Bar Association. A great deal depends on the complexity of the task given by a client, the number of specialists to be involved in consulting or a judicial case, the necessity of engaging translators/interpreters, economists or appraisers as well as on many other factors. We will effect necessary negotiations, preliminarily valuate our work and offer a few variants of co-operation. All accords connected with fulfilling the task will be recorded in the agreement of legal services. In testamentary matters we have a fixed fee of EUR 59.00 per will which is inclusive of appointing an executor; the service of safekeeping of the original will in our local office safe is included; the testator will have a copy of the will. There is no extra charge for safe-keeping. The testator may change or cancel his or her testament at any time. The fee for changing a testament is EUR 19.00.

Acting as professionals we guarantee full confidentiality of all information and documents obtained by us from our client both in preliminary negotiations and in the course of fulfilling the task.

Contact

Central office in Helsinki, Finland

Asianajotoimisto Kari Silvennoinen Ky - Attorneys at Law
Korkeavuorenkatu 19 A, FI-00130 Helsinki, Finland
Tel. +358 10 616 8920
Fax +358 10 616 8929
Mobile +358 500 705 716
E-mail: kari.silvennoinen@kolumbus.fi
Web: www.silvennoinen.fi

Office in St-Petersburg, Russia