5.8.2015

Sami Lindström Appointed as Counsel

Sami Lindström (Master of Laws) joined Castrén & Snellman as counsel on 10 August 2015. Sami will be a member of our Corporate Advisory & Tax service. Sami joins our firm from Outotec Oyj, where he most recently served as Chief Compliance Officer.

Sami has years of experience as a management advisor and legal counsel in international industry. He has designed and deployed global compliance programmes and trained thousands of employees in connection with those programmes.

Sami has also been responsible for implementing internal investigations around the world and handled demanding authority proceedings. Sami is a popular speaker in his field and has helped many companies develop their compliance processes.

Our Corporate Advisory & Tax service’s renowned expertise covers all the legal needs of corporate upper management relating to corporate structuring and risk management. Sami brings to our team a new level of hands-on, in-depth experience of how to get every level of a company’s employees to adopt best practices in compliance matters. This is a clear advantage of our compliance services.

For more information, please contact:
Outi Ruohola

 

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