About

Described as ‘practical’ and a ‘problem solver’, Mikko Aulas has worked at Nordea Bank since October 2000. During his employment at Nordea, Aulas assumed the role of legal counsel on shipping, oil and syndicate loans for the company’s Norwegian and Finnish subsidiaries. He has worked on large scale deals for the Nordic based bank, creating successful new structures for financing and has also been active in developing standard document templates to speed up response times in the legal department. To reflect his work, in June 2010, Aulas was promoted to senior legal counsel. Like so many other in-house teams, one of the biggest challenges he faces is the ‘recent regulation flood being experienced in banking at the moment’. Commenting on law firms, Aulas says ‘we would appreciate the law firm to analyse the issues and suggest a preferable solution. The bank will of course have to make the decisions, but that will be easier with the recommendations and interpretations’.