About

Helena Nelson joined Carnegie Investment Bank in April 2013 and now heads a team of three lawyers and one paralegal. Before this, she was chief compliance officer and the head of operational risk at Swedbank, which involved leading around 200 lawyers and non-lawyers. With a commitment to continuous personal development, Nelson explains her decision to move from Swedbank by saying ‘I wanted to once again work operatively with legal matters in order to not lose my legal skills’. One of Nelson’s biggest challenges and achievements came in a previous role where the company she worked for was acquired in a hostile take-over. ‘I managed to move to the general counsel role and to secure the future of the corporate legal team of some 15 individuals without any forced redundancies’. Currently Nelson works closely to the board and the CEO at Carnegie and is working to make the legal department ‘less reactive and more proactive’, fulfilling the role of a trusted business partner.