Investment banking

Deals, valuations and exits

Sami Miettinen is Head of AI at Translink Corporate Finance with an international career with 13 years in London City at Credit Suisse, Pöyry Capital and SEB. His deep execution track gives him a first-row view into the investment banking of Finland's most successful companies — mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, and exit arrangements. During his time as CEO of Nordic Trustee, he also managed the rights of over €4 billion bondholders.

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Guides

Start with a comprehensive guide: How to Sell a Company in Finland · Nordic SaaS Valuation & M&A.

Insights

Long-form English essays grounded in Neuvottelija podcast conversations — every claim cites its source episode and timestamp.

• Investing in Deep Tech: Why the Nordic Capital Gap Starts at Pre-Seed · 2026-07-15
  Anssi Uimonen of Nordic Science Investments explains why deep tech breaks the standard VC playbook — different survival odds than SaaS, a 10+2 fund horizon, and a Nordic pre-seed gap that kills good science before it ever becomes a company.
• The Pitfalls of Selling Your Company: What Actually Goes Wrong, and What a Clean Exit Looks Like · 2026-07-15
  An M&A banker's field notes on why company sales collapse, how growth keeps compounding after an IPO, and what separates a clean exit from a bruising one — for Finnish owner-entrepreneurs thinking about their own exit.
• Squeeze-Outs and Minority Shareholders: The Legal Edge of Finnish M&A · 2026-07-15
  Tarja Wist walks through two Finnish Supreme Court rulings — a golf-share redemption priced negative and the Ahlstrom-Munksjö case, where the fair price broke away from the tender offer — and what they mean for anyone holding minority shares.
• Why Capital Is Leaving Finland: Ownership, Taxation and the Incentives We Got Backwards · 2026-07-15
  Four Neuvottelija conversations on Finland's ownership problem — with Markus Hollmen and Mauri Kotamäki on capital flight, plus two shorts and a full episode on inheritance tax and the YEL pension mess — laid out with the exact figures as spoken. Where the capital actually is, how poor Finnish owners really are, why the inheritance tax reform collapsed, and why YEL still isn't funded. Here's where I land.

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