From outsourced to in-house: Hansa Biopharma’s rising star on building an IR function

When Klaus Sindahl joined Swedish biotech company Hansa Biopharma in 2019, the firm was still small, with a team of 40 people and no approved products.  

Until then, and since the firm’s IPO on the Nasdaq Stockholm stock exchange in 2015, IR-related practices had been mostly outsourced, Sindahl explains, and the company was getting research coverage only through a few banks.

‘I saw an immediate need to bring communications back in-house to ensure we were relaying a consistent message while introducing the company to potential new investors and sell-side analysts,’ he tells IR Magazine.

‘We had . . .

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