Engelberg’s practice focuses on finance and capital markets, cross-border corporate transactions and finance restructuring. The reference clientele has included leading Nordic public companies and banks, as well as sovereign and supranational entities.
Engelberg has represented the arrangers in over 200 syndicated loan transactions, as well as numerous capital market transactions and structured financing arrangements including securitisation. He has also worked on a number of M&A and property related finance transactions and restructuring arrangements.
Engelberg holds his Master of Laws from the University of Helsinki (1985) and has been trained on the bench in 1987. He will defend his PhD dissertation on legal frameworks for preventive restructuring later in 2019.
The Hague-based Panel of Recognised International Market Experts in Finance has appointed Engelberg to their Panel of Experts. P.R.I.M.E. Finance serves as a global centre to resolve disputes concerning complex financial transactions. The organisation has the support of key international regulatory bodies and is complementary to the ongoing financial market regulatory reform process.
Engelberg has acted as Chairman and Speaker at numerous conferences, including ones organised by the Nordic Capital Markets Forum and the International Loan Market Association. Since 1995, Engelberg has arranged and moderated an annual Financial Law Seminar in Helsinki. Recently Engelberg moderated a round table seminar on Schemes of Arrangement, organised by the Finnish Chambers of Commerce jointly with the Finnish Corporate Law Association and the Finnish Insolvency Law Association.
Engelberg has repeatedly been ranked as Expert and Leading Lawyer by Who’s Who Legal, IFLR1000, Chambers, Legal 500 and Best Lawyers.
