Interim and Precautionary Measures

  • Obtained the first ever anti-suit injunction in Finland in connection with an international dispute.
  • Obtained a precautionary measure prohibiting the counterparty from presenting allegations to third parties that our client was violating the counterparty’s intellectual property rights. 
  • Obtained the freezing of the counterparty’s receivables from a Finnish bank based on first demand guarantees issued by the bank. 
  • Obtained an injunction prohibiting a trade union from continuing its strike that was claimed to be illegal. 
  • Obtained the first-ever Anton Pillar order in Finland relating to main proceedings in the United States. 
  • Obtained in Finland the first ex parte and inter partes injunction in a high-profile, worldwide trademark dispute. Our successful application opened the doors for further injunctions in other jurisdictions. 
  • Represented various international banks in the successful freezing of assets located in Finland belonging to Russian corporations. 
  • Represented a director of a motion picture in an application to prohibit the distribution of the movie which violated the director’s IP rights. The case was settled soon after the application was submitted. 
  • Obtained a precautionary measure whereby a contractor was obligated under penalty of a fine to continue executing his obligations under a construction contract. 
  • Obtained an injunction against a shareholder/seller of a company, prohibiting him from being employed by a competitor on the basis of a non-compete clause in a Share Purchase Agreement. 
  • Obtained an injunction against the counterparty in a dispute over the IP rights to a software. The counterparty was ordered under penalty of a fine to refrain from making claims of ownership to third parties either directly or indirectly. 
  • Obtained an ex parte temporary seizure of the counterparty’s database with a prohibition for the counterparty to use the information contained in the database. In practice, the seizure resulted in the complete ceasing of the counterparty’s business operations.
  • Represented successfully a Finnish listed company against a labour union in obtaining an ex parte injunction order, which permitted our client to collect its containers from a port blocked by the labour union on strike.