Nexus Legal helps companies identify and manage human rights and sustainability risks in practice. We carry out human rights impact assessments (HRIA) aligned with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) and turn them into prioritised recommendations that support human rights due diligence.
Clients include
“Juho Saloranta’s presentation on the EU Forced Labour Regulation made a complex and highly topical body of regulation practical. What was particularly useful was how Juho connected the legal perspective concretely to procurement, risk assessment and the day-to-day reality of supply chains. The presentation sparked a lot of discussion in Nordic Source’s ESG network and received exceptionally positive feedback from participants.”
Eija Repo, Managing Director, Nordic Source (translated from Finnish)
Client assignments
Mining and battery chemicals
Terrafame Oy
Assignment: a UNGP-aligned human rights impact assessment (HRIA) covering the company’s value chain.
Outcome: value-chain human rights risks identified and prioritised, with recommendations to advance due diligence.
Battery value chain, state-owned company
Finnish Minerals Group
Assignment: a UNGP-based human rights impact assessment (HRIA) of companies within the FMG group.
Outcome: a risk analysis covering the group’s companies, with practical recommendations to support due diligence.
Earlier assignments
Earlier assignments carried out by Juho Saloranta include:
Forestry
A human rights risk assessment and an analysis of supply chain contracts, with particular attention to forced labour.
Financial services
A human rights risk assessment and an update of general terms and conditions to cover due diligence requirements.
International technology company
A workshop for the legal team on due diligence and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
Telecommunications and technology
A workshop on responsible contracting.
Speaking and training
Juho speaks and trains regularly on corporate responsibility, due diligence and responsible contracting, in Finland and internationally. Organisers include UN Global Compact Network Finland, FIBS, Alma Insight, Nordic Source’s ESG network, ECBA and the University of Eastern Finland.
- 2026 – Beyond Basics – Operationalizing Business & Human Rights: a three-workshop series, UN Global Compact Network Finland (trainer)
- Presentation on the EU Forced Labour Regulation, Nordic Source ESG network
- 2023–2025 – Corporate responsibility law training programme, Alma Insight (trainer)
- 2024 – Proactive contracting in the context of EU CSDDD, Deutsch-Portugiesisches Anwaltsseminar, Porto
All talks and training sessions
- 3 September 2026 – Tekoäly vastuullisuustyön mahdollistajana (AI as an enabler of responsibility work), FIBS and the Finnish Association for Corporate Responsibility Law, webinar
- 24 March, 29 April and 3 June 2026 – Beyond Basics – Operationalizing Business & Human Rights, UN Global Compact Network Finland: a three-workshop series with Michaela Streibelt and Daniel Schönfelder (trainer)
- 9 October 2025 – Juridiikkastudio: Vastuullinen sopiminen (Responsible contracting), Nexus Legal
- 13 February 2025 – CSDDD compliance: how diligent is diligent enough? The UNGP perspective, YVO and FIBS
- 2023–2025 – Corporate responsibility law training programme, Alma Insight (trainer)
- 3–4 October 2024 – Proactive contracting in the context of EU CSDDD, Deutsch-Portugiesisches Anwaltsseminar (DAV), Porto
- 28 September 2024 – Business & Human Rights: Mitigating litigation risks and criminal exposure, ECBA Autumn Conference, Helsinki (panellist)
- 26 September 2023 – Corporate responsibility legislation: what is it about and where do Finland and the EU stand? Joint seminar of SYS ry and the Finnish Association for Corporate Responsibility Law
- 21 November 2022 – Responsible contracting and communication in business relationships, University of Eastern Finland
- 10 May 2022 – Responsible business in conflict settings, Finnish Association for Corporate Responsibility Law
- 5 April 2022 – Corporate responsibility from an in-house counsel’s perspective, University of Eastern Finland
Research and appointments
- Doctor of Laws, University of Eastern Finland 2024: dissertation on human rights due diligence and access to remedy
- Country expert for Finland, Danish Institute for Human Rights: access to justice under the CSDDD (2025)
- CEULA study on the cumulative effects of EU sustainability legislation on Finnish firms, Publications of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland 2025:1
- Founder of the Finnish Association for Corporate Responsibility Law, chair 2020–2025, currently board member
- Postdoctoral researcher, JARGONFREE research project, Tampere University – responsible contracting in supply chains
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