Exhibit 5.1
To:
Nokia Corporation
Karakaari 7,
FI-02610 Espoo
Finland
August 1, 2024
Dear Recipients,
We have acted as legal advisers to Nokia Corporation (the “Company” or “Nokia”), a company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Finland, as to Finnish law in connection with the filing of a registration statement on Form F-4 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on August 1, 2024, including the prospectus set forth therein (the “Registration Statement”) concerning the issuance of ordinary shares, with no nominal value and in book-entry form, of Nokia (“Nokia Shares”) to be delivered in the form of American Depositary Shares (the “Nokia ADSs”) to the stockholders in Infinera Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Infinera”), pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of June 27, 2024 by and among the Company, Infinera and Neptune of America, a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Merger Sub”) (the “Merger Agreement”) that provides for Merger Sub to merge with and into Infinera (the “Merger”), with Infinera surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (Infinera, after the completion of the Merger, the “Surviving Corporation”). At the effective time of the Merger: each share of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of Infinera (the “Infinera Common Stock”) and each share of preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share, of Infinera, in each case, that is issued and outstanding as of immediately prior to the effective time will be automatically canceled, extinguished and converted into, at the election of the holder, the right to receive the following consideration, subject to proration in accordance with the Merger Agreement: (1) cash in an amount equal to $6.65, without interest thereon; (2) a number of Nokia Shares based on an exchange ratio of 1.7896 Nokia Shares for each share of Infinera Common Stock; or (3) cash in an amount equal to $4.66, without interest, and a number of Nokia Shares based on an exchange ratio of 0.5355 Nokia Shares for each Infinera Common Stock. In each case, the Nokia Shares will be delivered in the form of American Depositary Shares, with each Nokia ADS representing the right to one Nokia Share upon the terms and conditions of the deposit agreement for the Nokia ADSs. Such Nokia Shares to be delivered to Infinera stockholders in the form of Nokia ADSs as part of the merger consideration may include newly issued Nokia Shares and/or Nokia Shares held by certain wholly owned subsidiaries of Nokia; for the purposes of this Opinion, “Existing Nokia Shares” shall refer to such Nokia Shares held by certain wholly owned subsidiaries of Nokia delivered as part of the merger consideration and “New Nokia Shares” shall refer to newly issued Nokia Shares issued by Nokia as part of the merger consideration.
In our capacity as the Company’s legal advisors as to Finnish law, we have been requested to render an opinion as to certain matters of Finnish law.
