About

Mari Tyster has worked at Municipality Finance for the past six years, now heading a seven-strong team made up of legal counsel, paralegals and human resource assistants. Since the financial crisis, the company has experienced significant growth which has meant new challenges for the legal department, especially due to huge reform of financial banking regulations. ‘For this reason all legal counsel in our company, including myself, have a much more defined and expert role than in the past. Each legal counsel has a specific internal department as their internal client and is responsible for their business-related legal matters’. Tyster has thrived having the opportunity to work with continuously evolving financial regulations and manages daily legal matters, spanning multiple sectors from corporate legal issues to challenging IT law related projects, for a company which operates on financial capital markets. She has developed internal processes continuously, especially related to transaction documentation processes to make the progression more efficient. ‘The current small organisation combined with significant business volumes and balance sheet makes it possible to be part of interesting development while seeing the results in practice’. Her influence has not stopped within the realm of her company though, and she has been taking steps to drive change in the wider financial sector. ‘On my employer’s behalf, I have been active in different financial regulation lobbying efforts at national and EU level but also coordinated internal implementation projects of new financial regulation coming into force’.