About

Sarah Tähkälä previously worked as a partner at top Nordic law firm Hannes Snellman, where she was head of employment and also specialised in mergers and acquisitions. In January 2010, she was appointed vice president of Legal for the Paulig Group, a family-owned international enterprise in the food industry that has almost 2,000 employees in 13 countries. Tähkälä has been tasked with the coordination of all legal matters, managing a team of six employees and controlling any work that is outsourced to external law firms. In addition, she created and implemented group policies and practices in different areas such as intellectual property and approval procedures. As a management team member for the group she has led a number of strategic projects and she provides input into the most important business decisions. Tähkälä has had a pivotal role in the structural changes supporting the Group strategy, especially with regard to the divestment of two divisions and obtaining full control over the Group’s current companies.