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Eric Halvarsson

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Hamilton - Banking and Finance

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Eric Halvarsson is a partner in Hamilton’s Banking and Finance practice. He is specialised in domestic and cross-border leveraged finance transactions and debt restructurings. Eric acts for direct lending funds, corporate borrowers and private equity sponsors on senior and subordinated facilities and other structured finance products as well as for issuers and lead arrangers in connection with debt capital market transactions.

Career

2016 - Partner, Hamilton; 2011 - 2016 Partner, Ashurst; 2016 - 2011 Legal Counsel, Hogan Lovells London; 2008 - 2009 Secondment, Terra Firma Capital Partners London; 2005 - 2006 Secondment, Millbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy NewYork.

Languages

Swedish, English.

Member

Swedish Bar Association, International Bar Association, solicitor of England and Wales.

Education

2000 - Master of Laws (LL.M.), Stockholm University.

Sweden

Banking and finance

Within: Banking and finance

Hamilton Advokatbyrå’s Eric Halvarsson and senior associate Camilla Holmkvist advised Ture Invest as senior lender on the financing of Palamon Capital Partners’ acquisition of Happy Socks. Per Gustaf Ekbom, Fredrik Gillgren and Peter Kullgren also have significant banking practices.

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Report on Public Procurement in Sweden

Hamilton Advokatbyrå has reported on Public Procurement in Sweden in the publication "Public Procurement 2008 - an overview of regulation in 40 jurisdictions worldwide." The report includes analysis of the new Swedish Public Procurement legislation which entered into force on January 1st 2008.

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Foyen successfully represents client before the Court of Appeal

Press release 18th of December 2018

- Foyen Advokatfirma AB
Proposal regarding mining waste could prove a costly business for mining operators

On June 1, 2017 the Swedish Government decided to instruct an investigatory committee to analyze the potential actions or measures necessary to efficiently ensure that sufficient collateral security is in place in mining operations for remediation and other restorative measures. The investigation adopted the name the “The investigation into financing regarding mining waste” and was submitted to cabinet minister Karolina Skog in June 2018 (SOU 2018:59).

- Foyen Advokatfirma AB
Foyen has advised Dragon Mining in Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing

Foyen has advised Australian mining company Dragon Mining Limited in its listing of shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) on 5 November 2018. Dragon Mining is principally engaged in gold exploration, mining and processing with operating mines, pre-production mining assets and production plants in Sweden and Finland. Foyen's assignment has included environmental/permitting and corporate due diligence regarding the Swedish operation. The listing comprised a public offering for a total of 50,000,000 shares and the total funds raised were approximately HK$101 million(116 MSEK).

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Foyen advised OX2 in the construction of the Nordic region's largest unsubsidised wind power project

The renewable energy company OX2 has been engaged to construct four wind power farms with 25 wind power plants (107.4 MW) in Finland. This will be the largest unsubsidised wind power project to date in the Nordic region.

- Foyen Advokatfirma AB
Careless limit values threaten the Mining Industry

By lawyer/partner Pia Pehrson and associates Pelle Stubelius and Ludvig Gustafson, Foyen Advokatfirma

- Foyen Advokatfirma AB
Reforms for improved environmental legislation required

By Pia Pehrson, partner, and Pelle Stubelius, associate; Foyen Advokatfirma

- Foyen Advokatfirma AB
Interpretation of English phrases under Swedish law

A recent Court of Appeal case illustrates the risk that parties (and their counsel) run when an agreement is governed by a law of a different language from that used in the agreement itself. Due to the chairman's casting vote, the otherwise split decision came down in favour of one dictionary translation.

- Gärde Wesslau Advokatbyrå
Mining in Sweden – legislation and the latest trends

Update and trends

- Foyen Advokatfirma AB
Use of a competitor’s trade mark as an ‘AdWord’ for identical goods does not constitute infrin

In the first case of its kind to be decided by a higher court in Sweden, the Court of Appeal finds no probable cause for infringement where a competitor’s trade mark was used for keyword advertising on Googles AdWords service.

- Gärde Wesslau Advokatbyrå
A half-baked agreement? Severance compensation in commercial contracts

In a noteworthy ruling the Northern Norrland Court of Appeal had to consider two interesting questions regarding commercial agents:

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