Patrons

Borenius

Borenius is one of the largest and most experienced law firms in Finland, with offices in Helsinki, Tampere, London and New York. They provide services in all areas of Finnish law for corporate clients, and advise Finnish clients mainly on corporate matters in the United States. Borenius is ranked as a top tier Finnish firm by all leading legal directories and in any given year, the firm is at the top of the deal tables in Finland in IPOs, M&A and financing transactions.

www.borenius.com

Cool N Talk United Kingdom

Cool N Talk United Kingdom is a modern online platform for keynote speakers, hosts, facilitators and training. The speaker agency company is owned by speakers and famous serial entrepreneurs. They have a global network for speakers, but majority comes from Scandinavia. Booking keynote speakers is more transparent than ever before. Welcome to Cool N Talk’s shop for their international speakers and hosts.

www.coolntalk.co.uk

Dream Broker

Dream Broker is a Finnish and European online video software company helping their customers to revolutionise communication and learning with online video.

The company is one of the fastest growing companies in Europe, serving over 1100 loyal business customers. The company is privately held under Finnish and European ownership by its key operative personnel. The company and its products are known for their high quality and information security.

Today Dream Broker is the market leader in the Nordics, one of the biggest players in Europe. By the year 2025, the goal for the company is to expand its operations to a global level including all corners and continents. The long-term aim of the company is to create a true market-leading online-video software powerhouse, that has the capacity to serve all the needs and use-cases of its customers.

www.dreambroker.com

Finnlines

Finnlines is one of the largest European shipping companies specialising in liner cargo services. The Finnlines network covers all major Finnish ports as well as some 30 ports abroad. Finnlines’ main business area are: shipping and sea transport service (Hansalink, FinnLink, and Nordö-Link) and port operations (Finnsteve). Finnlines operates regular liner services (Hansalink) between ports in the Baltic Sea, North Sea, Scandinavia, Bay of Biscay areas and Finland. The Port of St Petersburg is served directly from Germany (TransRussiaExpress). FinnLink offers several daily departures between Naantali, Finland and Kapellskar, Sweden. Nordö-Link operates freight ferries in the Southern Baltic connecting several times daily Malmo, Sweden with Travemunde, Germany.

www.finnlines.co.uk

Goodwille

Goodwille provides essential business services to Finnish companies looking to enter, grow or scale in the UK. Whether you are looking to set up a UK subsidiary, register a UK branch or recruit UK based employees, we can provide all the business services you need to ensure your UK operation is properly administered, managed and monitored – all seamlessly coordinated through one company.
 
Our services cover:
• Corporate Legal
• Finance
• Human Resources
• Payroll
• Virtual Offices
 
Our vast experience, extensive global network and a team that speaks many European languages means nearly 500 businesses trust Goodwille to get it right for them in the UK. That in itself speaks volumes.
From pre-revenue start-ups to global retail chains our clients are headquartered around the world, with a strong focus on Northern Europe (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark & Iceland), Central Europe (France, Germany, Austria & Switzerland) and the USA.
By allowing Goodwille to take care of all your non-core business activities, it provides you with a smooth, efficient and compliant operation, whilst giving you and your team more free time to focus on the things that bring real value to your business.
 
 

IK Investment Partners

IK Investment Partners is a Pan-European private equity firm focused on investments in the Nordics, Germany/CEE, Benelux and France. Since 1989, IK Funds has invested approximately €5.6 billion in over 80 European companies. IK Funds invests with the management of mid-sized companies that have strong improvement potential, operating in the business services, care, industrial goods and consumer goods sectors.

www.ikpartners.com

J-M Capital Limited

J-M Capital is a leading corporate finance advisory firm, serving many types of clients across a wide range of transactions. Specialising in equity and debt fund raising, mergers and acquisitions advice, arranging structured debt finance (including emerging markets and project finance) and institutional funds management, our particular geographic specialty is advising clients in the Nordic/Baltic/Russia/former CIS regions on their activities in international financial markets. Our industry expertise includes logistics, transportation, distribution, media, financial services and natural resources.

 

Metsä Group

Metsä Tissue is one of the leading tissue paper suppliers in Europe to households and professionals and one of the leading grease proof paper suppliers globally.  Our purpose is to advance bio and circular economy by producing high-quality tissue paper and greaseproof paper products. The main raw material we utilise is renewable fresh fibre coming from sustainably managed Northern forests. The cornerstones of our strategy are to operate close to our customers and serve them with hygiene solutions of the future, based on the sustainable use of renewable northern wood.

Metsä Tissue is part of Metsä Group, an internationally operating frontrunner in sustainable bioeconomy and a successful forest industry group with strong roots in the Finnish forests and a unique company structure: our parent company Metsäliitto is a co-operative owned by nearly 100,000 Finnish forest owners. The Group produces fossil-free products from renewable wood grown in sustainably managed Northern forests. We invest in growth, innovating new bio-products, and building a fossil-free future for our planet.

www.metsagroup.com 

Nokia

Nokia is a global leader innovating the technologies at the heart of our connected world. Powered by the research and innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, they serve communications service providers, governments, large enterprises and consumers, with the industry’s most complete, end-to-end portfolio of products, services and licensing.

From the enabling infrastructure for 5G and the Internet of Things, to emerging applications in virtual reality and digital health, Nokia is shaping the future of technology to transform the human experience.

www.nokia.com

Nordea

Nordea is the largest financial services group in the Nordic region and one of the biggest banks in Europe. Our four Nordic home markets – Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden – form together the tenth largest economy in the world.
Our main business areas, Personal Banking, Business Banking, Large Corporates & Institutions and Asset & Wealth Management, are designed to support the relationship strategy for each specific customer segment.
Our ambition is to be a strong financial partner to our core Nordic customers, also for their banking needs outside the Nordics.
Nordea has been represented in the United Kingdom for over 40 years and is well recognised as the leading banking partner for Nordic corporates already established or entering the UK market.
The Branch’s business focus is towards large corporate customers supporting Nordea’s global relationship management process. We offer a focused range of transaction banking products and services, aimed at major Nordic companies with subsidiaries or sales in the UK and selective international companies with business in the Nordic area. The Branch’s experienced and dedicated cash management and customer support teams provide high service levels with an extensive knowledge of UK banking practices. High quality cash management systems and nationwide agency arrangements makes us a local bank covering the whole of the UK.

www.nordea.com

Outokumpu Stainless Ltd

Outokumpu is a global leader in stainless steel with the vision to be the undisputed number one. Customers in a wide range of industries – from catering and appliances to building and construction, transportation and chemical, petrochemical and energy industries, as well as the process and resources industries – use our stainless steel and services worldwide. Being fully recyclable, maintenance-free, as well as very strong and durable material, stainless steel is one of the key building blocks for sustainable future.

What makes Outokumpu special is total customer focus – all the way, from R&D to delivery. You have the idea. We offer world-class stainless steel, technical know-how and support. We activate your ideas. Outokumpu employs some 7 500 people in more than 30 countries. The Group’s head office is located in Espoo, Finland. Outokumpu is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.

www.outokumpu.com

Riversdown House

Riversdown House – an historic 14th century manor house, one hour from London – is Richard Lewis Communications’ premier location for intensive learning in England.Founded in 1971, Riversdown has received over 15,000 clients from around the world. Their experienced instructors design and deliver tailored, multi-objective programmes to improve your overall effectiveness in an international environment. Areas of focus include:- English language ability- Essential business skills, e.g. meetings, negotiations, presentations- Cross-cultural expertise To complement the intensive training, they have extensive on-site leisure facilities including a 9-hole PGA approved golf course, three tennis courts (two all-weather, one grass), a gym, sauna, and bicycles.Riversdown House is open throughout the year, with arrivals on any Sunday. Programmes typically last from 1-4 weeks. If you would like to speak to a former participant from your business sector and/or country – to hear their impressions about Riversdown House – please let us know.

www.riversdown.com

SEB

SEB is a leading Nordic financial services group, with an international business delivered through offices in 20 countries worldwide. Founded over 160 years ago, the bank’s presence in London dates back to 1964 – our office here has for many years been situated opposite St. Paul’s Cathedral in the heart of the City.

SEB is a relationship bank, strongly committed to delivering customer value by building on its heritage of entrepreneurship, international outlook and long term perspective. In the UK, we are primarily involved in providing wholesale banking services to our Large Corporates and Financial Institution clients. We also provide general banking services to smaller companies with business links to our home markets (the Nordic countries, Germany, UK and the Baltic states). The SEB group also provides private banking services to high net worth individuals and their families. SEB has more than 15,000 employees, and its customers include 3,000 large corporations and financial institutions, 400,000 small and medium-sized companies, and 4,000,000 private individual customers.

www.sebgroup.com

Tamares Group is a global private investment group based in London. Tamares has international interests in real estate, finance, technology, communications, manufacturing, leisure and media. The group invests in a number of different private and public companies, and in real estate properties. Today, Tamares Group holds a $3 billion portfolio. Its real estate holdings encompass 2.3 million square feet of office space.

www.tamares.com