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Led by Robert Stromberg, Advokatfirman Cederquist KB’s employment practice advises clients across the financial services, healthcare, real estate and telecoms sectors. Stromberg and noteworthy individuals Jens Tillqvist and senior associate Jonas Lindskog handle global restructuring and redundancy exercises, including trade union consultations and negotiations, internal investigations and senior-level terminations. The group also fields a solid team of associates including Malin Dunér and Jonas Lindskog, who often act in non-compete and damages disputes and also assist with the employment aspects of high-value M&A transactions. Capital markets partner Fredrik Lundén specialises in share incentive plans.

The client base of DLA Piper’s employment practice comprises significant global names in the financial services, retail, designer fashion, entertainment and pharmaceuticals sectors. Led by Johan Sundberg, the team is routinely instructed to handle large-scale reorganisations and terminations, SCC arbitration proceedings, landmark litigation in the upper courts and the employment aspects of corporate expansions, which benefit from the firm’s pan-Nordic presence. Mats Borgström is acting in a landmark case concerning the applicability of domestic, European and ECHR law to the right to take industrial action. New recruit Björn Rustare, who joined from Osborne Clarke, enhances the team’s expertise in incentive programmes, while senior associate Dino Kalamujic often assists with collective bargaining matters and other trade union consultations.

High-profile corporate clients routinely instruct Mannheimer Swartling's employment practice on the full range of stand-alone matters including senior-level terminations, restructuring and redundancy exercises, trade union negotiations, senior-level contract negotiations and incentive scheme drafting. Heading up the practice, Henric Diefke also regularly provides advice on the employment elements of the firm’s M&A transactions. The highly regarded Anders Nordström handles global compliance reviews while also acting in significant employment disputes; recent matters included non-compete breaches and trade secret arbitration proceedings.

The full-service employment department at Advokatfirman Vinge fields a substantial team of experts; Fredrik Dahl and Ingela Malmborg (who lead in Stockholm and Malmö respectively) handle cross-border restructurings and reorganisations in the transport, financial services, private equity and aviation sectors, and also defend employers in wrongful dismissal suits. The group also has key contentious expertise; Charlotte Forssander, who heads up the operations in Gothenburg, handles litigation concerning trade secret infringements and compensations claims, while Åsa Gotthardsson is a leading name for handling post-#MeToo misconduct allegations.

Baker McKenzie provides employment expertise to its client roster of global corporates on public and private M&A transactions and share listings; highly praised counsel Johan Zetterström handles in-depth due diligence processes, restructurings, trade union consultations and redundancies. On the contentious side, practice head Sten Bauer was recently instructed to defend claims of wrongful dismissal. The team has also been notably active in internal investigations pertaining to misconduct allegations.

With a diverse client base which includes leading technology and medtech names, Åsa Erlandsson and Henrik Kjellander head up Setterwalls’ employment team. The group handles employment disputes including senior-level termination challenges, trade union disputes and trade secrets litigation, while Erlandsson has a noteworthy practice in workplace environment matters including misconduct training and internal investigations. The team also provides advice to clients in the gig economy sectors including the IT, gaming and other entrepreneurial environments.

Jenny Jilmstad handles employment matters at Advokatfirman Schjødt, including reorganisations, employee transfers, redundancies, trade union consultations and other M&A-related matters. The client list of predominantly domestic corporates also instructs the team to handle collective bargaining negotiations, internal investigations, trade secrets disputes and unfair dismissal claims. Erik Danhard is now at Kanter Advokatbyrå KB.

The employment practice at Bird & Bird assists its tech-heavy client base with the full range of issues, from collective bargaining negotiations and post-M&A integrations to workplace environment policy, internal misconduct investigations and disciplinary procedures. Team head Katarina Åhlberg routinely advises on reorganisations and terminations, while counsel Ottilia Boström is noted for her expertise with pensions and remuneration issues, particularly in the financial services sector. The practice is also noted for its niche expertise in immigration matters, assisting employers with work permits, corporate establishments and taxation mandates.

The employment practice at Advokatfirman Delphi is headed up by Magnus Berterud, who provides corporate employment advice on reorganisations, redundancies, contract transfers and trade union negotiations, and also handles the employment aspects of M&A transactions. The client roster is a mix of domestic and international corporate names, for which the team also provides assistance with internal misconduct investigations.

Led by Per Westman and strengthened by the addition of Torbjörn Lindmark from MAQS Advokatbyrå, Eversheds Sutherland’s employment team provides advice on restructuring mandates and terminations, redundancy negotiations, trade union negotiations and senior management contract agreements including incentive programmes. The team also has expertise in pensions law and collective bargaining issues, cross-border transactional work and unfair dismissal disputes.

Advokatfirman Lindahl KB ’s employment practice, which is led by Malmö-based Cecilia Kindgren-Bengtsson and Uppsala-based Anders Leijon, primarily provides advice on the employment elements of M&A transactions, as well as reorganisations and downsizings, collective bargaining agreements and permits for international workforces. Recent highlights on the contentious side included handling alleged breaches of non-solicitation clauses in the digital entertainment sector.

Gothenburg-based Lars Lövgren and Malmö-based Mats Nilsson lead the employment practice at MAQS Advokatbyrå, which assists a client roster of companies from a diverse range of industries with contract negotiations, employee transfers, dismissals and collective bargaining issues; the team also provides employment-related transactional support. Recent contentious mandates include non-compete and trade secret claims. Senior associate Maria Moberg is noted for her expertise in contract and trade union negotiations.

As one of the leading M&A firms in the market, Roschier fields a robust employment group, with practice head Jenny Welander Wadström leading on in-depth due diligence investigations, employee reorganisations, senior management contractual negotiations and trade union consultations. The team also handles senior level terminations, breach of restrictive covenant disputes, trade secret litigation and internal misconduct investigations. The client list comprises domestic and international corporates and financial institutions.

Advokatfirman Törngren Magnell handles the full spectrum of employment issues, ranging from employment M&A, senior staff recruitment and pensions matters including contentious unpaid pensions applications to collective bargaining negotiations, transfers of undertakings and internal restructurings. Practice head Anna Jerndorf is a go-to name for misconduct investigations and other #MeToo advisory issues. Other contentious mandates include wrongful termination disputes, trade secret claims and non-competition litigation. The team also recently handled a number of large-scale terminations.

Jakob Bernander and Jörgen Larsson jointly lead Wistrand’s employment practice, which attracts praise from its client base of mid-tier domestic and international corporates for handling the full range of contentious and non-contentious matters. Alongside handling the employment elements of M&A transactions, the team also acts in trade secret litigation, disputes concerning collective bargaining agreements, employee contract drafting issues, reorganisations and terminations. Key areas of expertise span the construction, media, healthcare and technology sectors.

With an international corporate client base, the employment practice at Hammarskiöld handles cross-border issues involving workforce reorganisations, terminations, trade union consultations including recent strike issues in the airline sector, and contract and policy drafting. Practice co-heads Erik Löfwall and Thomas Lindqvist are key contacts and have notable expertise in implementing whistleblowing systems and policies for global companies.

Hellström Law provides ongoing employment advice to a diverse range of clients in the consumer goods, maintenance, engineering and IT sectors. Practice head Johan Karlman advises on employment and HR contracts, union consultations, redundancies and management reorganisations. Anna Fernqvist Svensson applies her GDPR expertise to employment mandates, while Natalie Franke handles internal misconduct investigations. The team also provides corporate advisory support on M&A transactions.

Fredrika Skoog is the main point of contact for employment law at Ramberg Advokater. The team specialises in reorganisations, outsourcings, union consultations, pensions issues and incentive scheme work.

White & Case Advokat AB handles core employment issues for a roster of domestic and international clients, including cross-border M&A mandates, trade union consultations, reorganisations, redundancies and multi jurisdictional workforce contract negotiations. Fredrik Schultz and Henrik Wireklint, who co-head the practice, also represent clients in disputes concerning non-compete clauses and misconduct allegations.