NINA KUULUSA APPOINTED AS M-REAL CORPORATION'S GENERAL COUNSEL
M-real Corporation Press release 1.4.2005 at 12.00 a.m.
NINA KUULUSA APPOINTED AS M-REAL CORPORATION'S GENERAL COUNSEL Nina Kuulusa has been appointed as of 1 April 2005 as M-real Corporation's General Counsel reporting to Juhani Pöhö, Executive Vice President, CFO. Kuulusa will also continue as the secretary of M- real's board of directors and its committees. In addition to overall legal affairs of M-real, Kuulusa will also be responsible for matters related to the application of the Securities Market Act and legal issues related to corporate governance included in the rules of the Stock Exchange. At the same time Metsäliitto Group has established a new service unit of legal affairs (Metsäliitto Group Legal Services) as of 1 April 2005. The purpose for establishing a service unit is to further develop the quality of legal services, to reduce costs related to the management of legal affairs, and to achieve group synergies by integrating services acquired from outside. Metsäliitto Cooperative and its subsidiaries are involved in the establishment. The legal services provided by the unit are available to all companies of Metsäliitto Group, and the lawyers are responsible for the legal affairs of the various companies of the Group. The following persons have been appointed to Metsäliitto Group Legal Services starting from 1 April 2005: - Esa Kaikkonen as General Counsel of Metsäliitto Group - Anna-Liisa Aminoff-Lindblad, as Director, Tax Law - Seppo Tuomola as Director, Competition Law - Miika Arola as Legal Counsel, Acquisitions - Esa Niinimäki as Legal Counsel, Financing and Insurance (as of May 16th, 2005) - Pekka Warjus as Legal Counsel, Real Estate and Environment - Hilppa Rautpalo as Legal Counsel, IT and R & D agreements - Robert Winkels as Legal Counsel, Germany and Central Europe - Ronalds Drunka as Legal Counsel, Baltic Countries and eastern Central Europe The new address of the legal affairs unit, starting from April 18, will be Metsätapiola, 2nd Floor (Revontulentie 6). The office of Robert Winkels after establishing the new unit will still be in Germany, in connection with M-real Zanders GmbH, and the office of Ronalds Drunka is located in connection with Silva Ltd, a subsidiary of Thomesto Oy, in Riga, Latvia. Esa Niinimäki, LLM (age 29), was previously employed by White & Case Oy, attorneys at law. In addition, two secretary's posts have been established for the service unit. Kaisa Kuronen is the secretary of Esa Kaikkonen, Anna- Liisa Aminoff-Lindblad and Seppo Tuomola, and Maria Sortila is the secretary of the service unit. Other secretarial arrangements will be announced later. M-REAL CORPORATION Corporate Communications For more information contact Juhani Pöhö, Executive Vice President and CFO, mobile +358 50 598 7607 or Nina Kuulusa, General Counsel, mobile +358 50 598 8805