About

Tuula Rainto has extensive knowledge and experience with an in-house career that spans over 20 years. After working for companies in a variety of sectors, as well as a six year stint as a legal consultant advising several corporate customers on legal matters, Rainto moved to her current role in 2012 as general counsel for Vaasan Group, one of Northern Europe’s leading bakery companies. Rainto is responsible for all legal affairs of Vaasan Group in addition to serving on its subsidiary’s Supervisory and Management Boards, providing high class legal advice to group management and stakeholders. Since joining Vaasan, Rainto has played an integral role in creating a contracting process, an intellectual property rights policy and training key personnel on compliance issues, planning the set-up of an e-learning tool to facilitate this. Demonstrating her expertise in M&A work, Rainto has recently gained recognition in the company for her contribution in the sale of Vaasan to Swedish company Lantmännen, adhering to tight time schedules and completing due diligence work.