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Alright then, hello there. I’m Sami Miettinen, a negotiator.

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I work professionally in an international M&A network called TransLink Corporate Finance, which has 600 experts.

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We carry out around 35 corporate transactions annually in the Nordic countries.

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I myself graduated from a business school, and I spent 13 years in London, in the City of London.

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And now I’ve been back here in my home country, Finland, for several years, both in large banks like Credit Suisse and then in smaller ones.

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And indeed, I’m now a partner here at Translink.

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We do these corporate transactions, share issues, and similar arrangements.

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And a good overview of this field is provided by Exit by Matias Mäenpää and Anssi Kiviranta, which includes 15 entrepreneur-owner exits or share issues, or other arrangements, three of which were executed by us. In fact, both gentlemen’s transactions were carried out by us.

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Then perhaps regarding my own competence in this area, I interviewed dozens of top Finnish executives for a book called Uusi neuvotteluvalta (The New Negotiation Power), which was published by WSOY in the autumn of 2019.

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And in it, we went from Martti Ahtisaari to Bengt Holmström, all the way to Elina Lepomäki and Lauri Lyly in these cases, and interviewed all of them.

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And what I now intend to do on this YouTube channel is to interview similarly interesting negotiators, experts, and people who work professionally with negotiation situations.

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Please subscribe to the channel, thank you, and let’s see what we can accomplish here.

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Thank you.