Mr Peter Svanqvist > Advokatfirman Schjødt > Stockholm, Sweden > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Peter Svanqvist
Work Department
Banking & Finance
Position
Partner and Head of Banking & Finance practice group
Career
Peter Svanqvist is a partner who focuses on banking and finance, out-of-court restructuring, and insolvency. His principal areas of work are cross-border leveraged finance transactions, real estate finance, fund financing, and investment-grade lending. He represents Swedish and foreign banks, financial institutions, private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers, and direct lending funds.
Peter is the head of Schjødt’s Banking & Finance group. He has been a lawyer since 2003 and joined Schjødt in 2022 from White & Case in Stockholm, where he worked as a Counsel. Before that, Peter worked at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ) and the Swedish law firm Vinge.
He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Stockholm and has a D.U. Europeen en Analyse Economique du Droit, Law and Economics from Université dÁix-Marseille III and a European Master in Law and Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Education
2003 – European Master in Law and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
2003 – D.U. Europeen en Analyse Economique du Droit, Law and Economics, Université dÁix-Marseille III
2003 – Master of Laws (LL.M.), Stockholm University
Lawyer Rankings
Sweden > Banking and finance
Advokatfirman Schjødt’s integrated Nordic finance department handles a wide range of transactions for domestic and international clients, including banks, mezzanine lenders, credit funds, private equity sponsors, and real estate companies. The team specialises in real estate, investment grade, and cross-border leveraged acquisition financings and has recently seen an increase in venture capital and fund financing mandates. Peter Svanqvist, who has considerable experience in cross-border leveraged finance, real estate finance, fund financing and investment grade lending matters, leads the practice alongside leveraged finance and debt restructuring expert Eric Halvarsson.