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Profile
Helena Haapio Master of Laws (LL.M.), Master of Quality (MQ), Contract Coach |
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| Career |
Prior to establishing her own practice Lexpert Ltd in 1985 served 7 years as an in-house Legal Counsel at Oy Wärtsilä Ab, Finland, and subsidiaries in the United States, Sweden and Norway. With over 20 years as an international industrial Contract Lawyer she also serves as arbitrator. |
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| Nominated "Export Trainer of the Year" 1985, FINTRA. Member of the Consultant Network of the Industrial Insurance Company Ltd. Designed and conducted in-house and public workshops on subjects including Safe Sales - Managing Promises and Supplier/Buyer Relations, Contractual Risk Management in International Business Transactions, Contracts and Quality, Proactive Contracting, Valued-Added Lawyering, and Contractual Literacy for a number of professional groups, post-graduate learning institutions and corporations in Europe and the United States | ||
| Articles and training materials on quality improvement through proactive contracting, international sales, contract reviews, legal risk management, professional services contracts, and related fields | ||
| Studies | LL.M. University of Turku; two-year course on Export Management, Finnish Institute of Export FINTRA; post-graduate Information Resources Management Program, Helsinki University of Technology; Certified Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP); post-graduate Master of Quality Program, Helsinki University of Technology | |
| Her academic credentials include a Diploma in Legal Studies from the University of Cambridge, England, after three years of post-graduate studies at the said University and at the University of Hamburg, Germany and the University of Stockholm, Sweden | ||
| Experience and Expertise | - building-in quality and risk management into global organizations' sales and procurement practices | |
| - improving risk management through contractual terms, indemnities and insurance | ||
| - practical steps to avoid problems related to international trade and the CISG | ||
| - updating quotations, orders, contracts, warranties and terms; contractual policies | ||
| - partnership and framework agreements; (sub)contractor and supply arrangements | ||
| - R & D, design and development services; professional services contracts | ||
| - distribution and agency relations; reorganizing international distribution networks | ||
| - joint ventures; strategic alliances; shareholders' and ancillary agreements | ||
| - licensing; franchising; technology transfers and related industrial property issues | ||
| - reducing year 2000 legal risks; detecting and minimizing their causes and effects | ||
| Languages | Finnish (native language), English, German, Swedish | |
| Memberships in Finland | |||
| - Electronic Commerce Finland | |||
| - Finnish Franchising Society (Founding Member) | |||
| - Finnish Management Consultants' Association LJK | |||
| - Finnish Society for Quality | |||
| - HENRY - The Finnish Association for Human Resource Management | |||
| - ICC Committee on International Commercial Practices | |||
| - Industrial Lawyers' Society | |||
| - Project Management Association Finland | |||
| - The Risk Management Society of Finland | |||
| International Memberships |
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| - AIPPI | |||
| - American Bar Association (ABA) | |||
| - American Society for Quality (ASQ) | |||
| - American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) | |||
| - Defense Research Institute (DRI) | |||
| - International Alliance for Learning (IAL) | |||
| - International Bar Association (IBA) | |||
| - International Society for Technology, Law and Insurance (ISTLI) (Board Member) | |||
| - Licensing Executives Society (LES) | |||
| - National Speakers Association (NSA) | |||
| - Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS) | |||
| - Society for Computers and Law | |||
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