Law and practice in one team
Sustainability regulation is not solved by law alone, or by practical experience alone. So we bring to each engagement the expertise it needs: the law of regulation and contracts, and hands-on experience of procurement, production and audits.
How the team comes together
Nexus Legal is responsible for the engagement. When the work needs hands-on procurement, production or audit experience alongside the law, we work with Nexus Legal’s independent partner experts. You still have one contract and one contact person.
Nexus Legal · founder
Juho Saloranta, LL.D.
Regulation, contracts and the law of due diligence
Juho is a Doctor of Laws specialising in corporate sustainability law. He has carried out human rights risk assessments and supply chain contract reviews for companies, and trained legal teams, procurement and sustainability specialists. Before Nexus Legal he worked on legislation in the European Parliament and the Finnish Parliament.
In engagements: works out what the regulation and guidance require of your company, and builds those requirements into your supplier code, contract terms and policies.
- LL.D., University of Eastern Finland 2024: dissertation on human rights due diligence and access to remedy
- Author of the CEULA study on the cumulative effects of EU sustainability legislation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (2025:1)
- Country expert for Finland, Danish Institute for Human Rights: access to justice under the CSDDD (2025)
- National expert for the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
- Founder of the Finnish Association for Corporate Responsibility Law, chair 2020–2025
- Researcher, JARGONFREE project, Tampere University (2026)
Bethics Oy · partner expert
Miia Hapuoja
Social responsibility in production, procurement and audits
Miia has more than 20 years of experience in international expert and management roles in social responsibility, human rights, occupational safety and HR. She has worked inside production and procurement, solving ethical challenges in global supply chains. She has developed social responsibility strategies for clients and assessed human rights risks in their value chains.
In engagements: assesses where the risks actually lie, and designs actions that procurement and suppliers can carry out.
- More than 20 years in international sustainability and management roles
- Coach to management and specialists, trainer of social compliance auditors
- Founder of Bethics Oy (2023)
Juho’s full background
Visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute (Heidelberg), the China-EU School of Law (Beijing) and the University of California, Berkeley. Course leader for corporate responsibility at the University of Eastern Finland. Parliamentary assistant in the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights and legislative secretary in the Finnish Parliament. Hanken’s CR module and Asser Institute courses on business and human rights and on digitalising due diligence. LL.M., University of Turku 2014.
What you can buy from us
- Forced Labour Regulation readiness review
- Human rights impact assessment (HRIA): scope agreed together
- Workshops and training for management, procurement and legal teams
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