Nordic Region

• Declining stocks bring opportunity

  Declining stock prices and liberalised takeover rules encourage public-to-private transactions in Finland, say Jan Ollila and Anders Carlberg of Dittmar & Indrenius

• It's not all about management

  Swedish banks have gone unscathed by the credit crunch. This is because of their business model, not their managers, say Carl Schwieler and Björn Sjöberg of DLA Nordic