Urho Ilmonen

Urho Ilmonen | Helsinki, Finland

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Mr. Urho Ilmonen is an experienced Finnish attorney at law, graduated from the Helsinki university law school in 1980, and joined immediately the leading law firm in Finland, Roschier. At Roschier, he provided leading clients with corporate, business and commercial legal services. Such services included among others , the largest export contract at its time, where an entire starch factory was contracted to be delivered to Germany. This contract was negotiated by Mr. Ilmonen in the German language, with the necessary documentation produced directly in German.

He joined Nokia Corporation in 1988, and founded the legal, IPR and Corporate Security services for the Mobile Phones business group, recruiting the staff and lawyers, and managing them in a multinational business environment. One of the main achievements at the time were the cross-license agreements entered into with Nokia's main competitors, and the inevitable IPR litigation cases that were filed against Nokia by the competition. During his time the legal and IPR services grew to their present international standards. Their goal was constantly to maximize the freedom of action of the business. Another main area of responsibility for Mr. Ilmonen at the time was to design and manage Nokia's anti-product liability program, which for many years successfully kept Nokia out of this area of claims.

After Nokia Mr. Ilmonen moved on to the leading trademark IPR firm in Finland, Benjon Ltd, where he held the position of Director, business development, designing the new operational mode of the firm, and contributing to making it much more profitable. In May 2009 Ilmonen joined the FACT Law group where he is now the senior partner.

As an experienced, international person with the necessary language skills (fluent in English, German, French and Swedish and basic Spanish), Mr. Ilmonen serves the business in all corporate law, IPR, copyright and corporate security issues, both directly and through his considerable network. Mr. Ilmonen is also well connected via the leading IPR, Information security and legal associations globally.