Shoan Panahi Partner White & Case LLP

Shoan Panahi is part of the Nordic Private Equity team and the Global M&A practice. Shoan specializes in Private Equity investments and M&A transactions, corporate matters and in restructuring and insolvency. Shoan has significant experience in assisting clients with M&A transactions, corporate issues, corporate finance and joint ventures. He has advised clients on deals in various industries, including the healthcare, cloud computing, manufacturing, retail, food and beverage, and technology sectors.

Prior to joining White & Case, Shoan was a partner at another Swedish law firm.

Jonas Olsson has served as senior legal counsel at Telia Company since 2000, and has therefore been involved in some of the company’s highest profile M&A deals and product launches in the last 20 years, as well as dealing with a number of legal and compliance challenges in this time. Olsson’s remit covers all business law within the telecommunications business, including national international public and private M&A, corporate finance and venture capital investments. Some highlights of his career at Telia include his leadership on the Telia-Sonera transaction, as he was the lawyer responsible for all of the merger filings in the EU, Baltic States, US and Russia, as well as negotiating with the merger task force at the EU Commission to achieve the merger’s successful clearance. He was also responsible for Telia’s divestment of its shares in Infonet at the NYSE to British Telecom, the IPO and divestment of Megafon, the acquisition of Bonnier Broadcasting and for legal matters pertaining to the issuance of corporate hybrid bonds, in 2017 and 2020. He identifies that through his career working in important, high-value M&A transactions that he has ‘learned the hard way that competition law is politics’ and continues to encounter related challenges as Telia dealt with its Eurasian investments and divestments. Thankfully for the Telia Company, the dominant Stockholm-headquartered telephone company and mobile network operator, Olsson can draw on a cornucopia of experience dealing with similar transactions on behalf of the business throughout his more than two decades of outstanding service.

Anna Orlander Partner Baker McKenzie

Anna Orlander is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Stockholm office and joined the firm in 2007. Anna practices in the area of mergers and acquisitions and advises clients on a wide range of corporate matters with a focus on reorganizing the corporate group structures of multinational companies. In 2012, she completed a secondment with the dedicated team of the Firm’s London office focused on international reorganizations and business transformations projects.

Anna helps clients structure, implement and manage cross-border reorganizations efficiently while ensuring compliance with local and international legal requirements. Projects include post-acquisition integrations and carve-outs. Anna supports multinational companies with various corporate advice, including global corporate maintenance services, corporate governance, shareholders’ agreements and joint ventures. She represents clients within a broad range of industry sectors, including private equity, life science, technology and consumer products.

Rosie Corcoran VP Sales: UK & Nordics Datasite

Rosie started at Datasite in 2015 as a Sales Director in NYC and has since transitioned to VP Sales, UK & Nordics in London. Prior to Datasite, Rosie worked for CCS where did fundraising and consulting for non-profit institutions. She graduated from Georgetown University with a B.S. in Foreign Service.

Auri Aittokallio Nordics Reporter Mergermarket

Auri is Nordic Correspondent at Mergermarket. She joined the company in December 2016, having previously worked as financial reporter for TMT Finance, where she tracked deal activity in the telecom, media and tech sectors across Europe.

Prior to this, Auri covered the IT and telecoms sectors for many years as a reporter and researcher, and the TMT sector remains her special area of interest.

Auri, originally from Finland, holds a BA in Journalism from the University of West London.