About

Nina Kiviranta moved in-house in 1996 after four years of working in law firms. For her first corporate role, Kiviranta joined Metsä Board (previously M-real Corporation), a leading European folding boxboard and white fresh forest fibre linerboard producer, serving as legal counsel, general counsel and vice president over a period of 10 years. In addition to working on major mergers and acquisitions, Kiviranta assisted the company when the EU conducted their biggest price fixing investigation, at the time, into paper producers. She then spent seven years as head of corporate legal and chief compliance officer at one of the region’s most distinguished companies, Nokia Siemens Networks. Kiviranta played an important role in project planning for the Nokia and Siemens joint venture in 2007 in addition to assisting on its compliance matters. Now at Outotec, a technologies and services provider for the metal and mineral processing industries, Kiviranta serves as general counsel. Since joining, she has been at the heart of a number of high profile pieces of work. Recently she worked on an anti-trust case where the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has been investigating Outotec regarding its market position and practices in China flash smelting technology. In addition, Kiviranta is a member of Outotec’s executive board. She sees this as important, noting that ‘the GC can be involved in the executive level decision making and can be involved in business matters as well, which is very helpful to get involved in the cases in early phases’.