Timo Ylikantola

Ratiolex is one of the leading dispute resolution law firms in Finland. Ratiolex offers a full range of dispute resolution services for all businesses and industries covering inter alia all aspects of domestic and international arbitration, both ad hoc and institutional. Ratiolex focuses on high-end domestic and international dispute resolution services. “Our strategy has been to offer convenient, rapid, sound and secure as well as cost-effective dispute resolution services to our clients. The firm’s annual growth and our genuine interest towards our profession, a dose of healthy ambition and a constant urge to better ourselves can be observed in the success and satisfaction of our many Finnish and foreign clients in the complex dispute resolution cases both in Finland and abroad,” explained Timo Ylikantola, partner at Ratiolex. He continued: “Our experience from arbitrations under the Rules of the Arbitration Institute of the Finland Chamber of Commerce is extensive, but we also have experience in arbitrating disputes under Arbitration Rules of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and the ICC Arbitration Rules and ad hoc arbitration under the Finnish Arbitration Act as well as enforcement procedures of the arbitral awards. During the last few years we have had a large caseload of disputes and we have represented clients in commercial disputes in several industries and fields of business, such as automotive, distribution and foreign trade, franchising, IT, infrastructure and construction, media and entertainment, M&A, real estate, sale of goods as well as transportation, logistics and freight forwarding.” Mr Ylikantola was awarded the price of Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 in Helsinki, Finland and has frequently published articles on international arbitration topics and acted as an arbitrator in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. Ratiolex successfully represented one of the world’s leading record and music industry companies as a respondent in a contract dispute, where all its client’s rebuttal claims were accepted; as well as a favorable outcome for a Finnish claimant in service agreement reimbursement dispute wherein its client's opponent party was a listed German public company. Furthermore Ratiolex has also obtained a series of favorable arbitral awards. One of which pertains to international ad hoc arbitration under the Finnish Arbitration Act. The dispute concerned a director’s agreement termination which was conducted in English wherein its client’s opponent party was a Dutch corporation and in the arbitration proceedings regarding an infringement of the commercial and trade secrets which was conducted under the Rules of the Arbitration Institute of the Finland Chamber of Commerce. Ratiolex’s clientele has consisted mainly of domestic SMEs, growing and internationalising companies and international corporations. This year, in addition to the above mentioned cases, Ratiolex has served a number of high profile clients such as Finland’s leading building services consulting company, one of the leading international freight forwarding and logistics companies and one of the leading international chemical industry companies. In July 2012 Ratiolex was ranked the most successful law office in Finland based on analysis of financial statements.