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Henric Diefke

Henric Diefke is partner since 2005 and specialised in employment law, work environment and pensions. Henric is head of the firm’s Employment and Pensions practice group and has more than 20 years’ experience of providing complex employment law advice to Swedish and foreign employers within virtually all industry sectors. Henric’s work includes re-organizations, collective and individual dismissals, union negotiations, disputes, transaction related employment law, employment terms and conditions for senior executives, pensions, work environment (physical and psychosocial), discrimination and internal investigations. Henric is regularly engaged as lecturer within employment law in Sweden.

Madeleine Edqvist

Madeleine Edqvist is member of the firm’s Environment practise group and the Energy sector group. She is specialised in environment and energy law with main focus on regulatory matters and the renewable energy sector, such as matters related to wind power, solar, hydrogen, electricity networks and the energy market at large. She has also a broad experience of various industrial and infrastructure sectors and regularly advises clients in complex permitting and licensing processes before courts and authorities, as well as and in other legal proceedings. Madelene is regularly involved in advising on energy and environment law aspects in transactions, commercial contracts and projects. She is also engaged in the firm’s Sustainability and ESG group and works with clients in climate and energy transition related matters.

Johan Granehult

Johan Granehult’s practice focuses on construction, real estate and the manufacturing industry. He advises clients on infrastructure projects and other major construction and industrial projects, on real estate-related matters, and on a wide range of industrial agreements. In recent years, Johan has been extensively involved in projects relating to the green transition of industry, including production plants for electric-vehicle batteries, green steel, green aluminium, green fuels, recycling of products and more. In these projects, Johan provides advice on land acquisitions, design and engineering agreements, construction agreements, supply agreements for process equipment, offtake agreements and various types of cooperation agreements. Johan is also active in the transition to a climate-neutral energy system, including Sweden’s nuclear power sector. He has extensive international experience and has for many years worked on projects in, among other regions, the Middle East, China, Russia and Western Europe.

Adam Green

Adam Green’s practice focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and majority and minority investments across multiple industries. He works regularly with media and emerging technology clients, often representing Swedish founders and startups in their growth and exit phases, and frequently represents foreign clients in Swedish matters as well as Swedish clients in transactions with an international element. Adam is actively engaged in training the firm’s M&A lawyers and is a regular lecturer at Stockholm University, the Stockholm Center for Commercial Law, Handelshögskolan (the Stockholm School of Economics) and Domstolsakademin (Academy of Swedish judges).

Jan Holmius

Jan Holmius is a partner at Mannheimer Swartling and a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity practice groups. He specialises in private M&A including acquisitions, divestments, spin-offs, joint ventures, strategic partnerships and restructurings. Recognised as one of Sweden’s foremost M&A and private equity practitioners, Jan advises many of Europe’s major private equity funds active in the Nordic region as well as other financial actors, global corporates and household names.

Anders Ingvarson

Anders Ingvarson co-chairs the firm’s Dispute Resolution practice group. He is also part of Mannheimer Swartling’s group for Infrastructure and Construction. Anders works with disputes and projects all across Sweden and internationally. His consultancy deals with disputes and projects relating to infrastructure projects, construction and civil engineering projects, installations in industry and other projects and disputes with industrial or technical elements. Anders joined the firm in 2004, worked for a period in 2008 at the firm’s New York office and has experience as a legal counsel at one of Sweden’s largest construction companies. Anders is a member of the Swedish Bar Association and holds a law degree from Lund University.

Daniel Karlsson

Daniel Karlsson is a partner of Mannheimer Swartling and the chairman of the firm’s Banking and Finance practice group. Daniel has a broad practice covering acquisition finance, real estate finance, corporate loans, sustainable finance, fund finance, debt capital transactions (such as bonds) and restructuring matters. Daniel advises lenders, borrowers, arrangers, issuers and other relevant stakeholders domestically as well on cross-border transactions and other matters.

Daniel Khayyami

Daniel is a partner of Mannheimer Swartling and a member of the firm’s practice groups Banking and Finance and Restructuring and Insolvency. Daniel is specialised in finance and insolvency law, focusing on domestic and cross-border financing transactions and restructurings. Daniel has a broad practice that includes acquisition and bid finance, corporate loans, fund finance, property finance and other loan-based financing transactions, as well as bond issuances and other debt capital markets transactions. Daniel also assists creditors and debtors in distressed debt and insolvency situations and restructurings. Daniel’s mandates include some of the largest and most complex transactions on the Swedish market. His client base ranges from banks and other lenders to private equity clients and other financial sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as industrial clients and venture capital companies. Daniel also regularly teaches and gives lectures on various finance law topics at Swedish universities.

Kristoffer Löf

Kristoffer Löf is a partner at Mannheimer Swartling and a member of the firm’s Dispute Resolution practice group as well as its industry groups for Energy and Infrastructure/Construction. He served as chair of the Dispute Resolution practice group from 2014 to 2024 and has also chaired the Swedish Arbitration Association (SAA) and Young Arbitrators Sweden (YAS). Kristoffer has extensive experience in disputes across a wide range of industries, with a particular focus on major construction and infrastructure projects, telecoms, and disputes concerning the extraction and delivery of natural resources. His work also covers complex disputes involving pharmaceuticals, joint ventures, shareholders’ and cooperation agreements, machinery and system deliveries, licensing, agency and distribution agreements, and M&A.

Patrik Marcelius

Patrik Marcelius heads the firm’s Public M&A and Equity Capital markets practice. His practice includes public M&A, equity capital markets, corporate governance and disclosure matters. Patrik advises a broad range of clients in various industries. He has been involved in many major domestic and cross-border transactions and has extensive experience in takeover planning and defence. He frequently advises boards of directors and management teams on corporate governance, disclosure and securities law matters. Patrik is a member of the Disciplinary Committee of Nasdaq Stockholm and the expert group that is responsible for proposing amendments to the Swedish Takeover Rules. He is actively engaged in training the firm’s lawyers and is a regular lecturer at Stockholm and Uppsala University.

Joel Mårtensson

Joel Mårtensson is a member of Mannheimer Swartling’s Environment practice group and is based in the firm’s office in Stockholm. He advises clients in a wide range of environmental matters. His practice includes advising clients in environmental permit applications and risk assessments in transactions. Joel also works with product compliance related matters. Joel joined the firm in 2007 and is a member of the Swedish Bar Association. He has an LL.M. degree from the University of Uppsala and has studied law at RGGU in Moscow.

Anders Nordström

Anders Nordström was a partner of the firm during the years 2013-2021. He specialises in advising across the entire spectrum of employment and pension law. Such work includes trade union negotiations and employment issues in conjunction with transactions, outsourcing projects and other structural changes in relation to mergers, acquisitions and divestments. Anders has extensive experience of work within areas such as employment litigation and arbitrations. A big part of this work refers to redundancy disputes, dismissals, theft of trade secrets and other irregularities directed at the employer. Anders also assists employers with internal investigations regarding suspicions of crime and other misconduct in the workplace. With over 25 years of experience working with employment law, including employment at the Swedish Labour Court (a special court for employment disputes) and working as an expert in a government committee proposing changes to the employment law. Anders is considered one of the leading employment lawyers in Sweden. Anders is also a renowned lecturer in employment law and is often invited to participate as a speaker at various courses and conferences.

Tobias Normann

Tobias Normann is an employment law specialist and advises across the entire spectrum of this legal field. His work includes employment issues in relation to reorganisations, transactions, business transfers and other structural changes. Tobias also has extensive experience of work with employment litigation and arbitration. A big part of this work refers to redundancy disputes, dismissals, misappropriation of trade secrets, competing activities and other irregularities directed at the employer. Tobias also assists employers with workplace investigations – both under the Swedish employment protection, discrimination, work environment and whistleblowing legislation as well as international, cross-border, compliance investigations. Tobias is also a popular lecturer in employment law and is often invited to speak at various legal conferences and regularly gives lectures at the Swedish legal faculties.

Robin Oldenstam

Robin Oldenstam specialises in arbitration and civil litigation and is the head of Mannheimer Swartling’s International Arbitration Practice. He is also chairing the Board of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) and is a member of the board of the Finnish Arbitration Institute (FAI). Between 2015-2021 Robin was a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and between 2010-2014 he was chairing the Swedish Arbitration Association (the SAA), which is the leading association for arbitration practitioners in Sweden. He is also a past member of the editorial board for Global Arbitration Review (GAR). Robin Oldenstam has acted as counsel in numerous arbitrations under the SCC, the ICC, FAI, UNCITRAL and other rules in both Sweden and abroad. He also has considerable experience as an arbitrator, including several appointments as a sole arbitrator and as president. Robin is a fellow with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). He has acted in disputes encompassing a wide range of areas such as licensing, supply, share and asset purchases, agency and distribution as well as a wide range of industries such as oil and gas, automotive, construction, pharmaceutical, securities and finance. Robin Oldenstam is responsible for the Swedish Bar Association’s mandatory course in trial advocacy and regularly lectures on arbitration and litigation at several university courses and training programs for professionals. He is the main author of Mannheimer Swartling’s Guide to Commercial Dispute Resolution and has also authored various articles on arbitration in professional journals.

Emma Olnäs Fors

Emma Olnäs Fors is a partner of Mannheimer Swartling, Chair of the firm’s Board, a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions practice group and Co-Chair of the firm’s Energy industry group. Emma has extensive M&A experience across a large number of industries in both domestic and international contexts. She regularly acts for industrial companies, including many of Sweden’s blue-chip companies. She also has experience from transactions with family-owned businesses. In addition to private acquisitions and divestments, Emma is regularly engaged in complex international spin-offs, mergers (particularly joint ventures), restructuring and company-law matters. As Co-Chair of our Energy group, Emma has considerable experience in the industry, in particular the wind and solar power sectors in which she has advised on several of the largest onshore wind-farm and solar-plant projects in Sweden. In addition, Emma is an expert in handling complex projects within district heating and electricity distribution. Emma is also a member of the firm’s Automotive industry group and has for more than ten years handled acquisitions, divestments and joint ventures in the wider automotive sector. Emma is a regular university lecturer and teaches M&A transaction process and due diligence.

Martin Pekkari

Jon Rastad

Jon Rastad is a partner of Mannheimer Swartling and a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions practice group. With a broad private M&A practice, Jon advises on acquisitions and divestments, joint ventures, strategic partnerships and restructurings. Jon has considerable experience in complex business carve-outs and has recently advised on a number of high-profile international transactions in this area. He advises clients across multiple industries and his client base includes long-standing corporate clients and recurring private equity firms. He is an active member of the firm’s Private Equity industry group. Jon is a regular lecturer in law at Stockholm University and runs a number of legal seminars. He is also actively engaged in training the firm’s M&A lawyers as part of our Professional Development Programme, amongst a number of other training commitments.

Jesper Silow

Jesper Silow is specialised on domestic and international procurements of complex construction, supply and project contracts with specific focus on construction and infrastructure, energy and manufacturing industries. Jesper has particular experience in the field of process and machinery plant deliveries, such as robotics, boilers, mining equipment and automated storage systems, in wind and nuclear energy projects and within the construction material sector. Jesper also works continuously with various forms of shared investment structures such as joint ventures, consortiums, pre-bid agreements and similar bilateral collaborations. Jesper has in recent years been active in major greenfield and brownfield project investments for implementation of emerging technologies as part of the ongoing energy and climate transition in base and manufacturing industrial market segments, such as battery production plants, green steel, e-fuel and e-methanol, electrolyser plants and infrastructure for electric vehicle charging. In these projects, Jesper advises on wide range of project related issues, including project structuring, due diligence, design and consultancy, construction, plant supply, offtake and customer agreements, usage rights and various forms of collaboration agreements. Jesper has specific experience in structuring and implementation of carbon capture and storage projects (CCS).

Zoran Stambolovski

Zoran Stambolovski is a partner in the Banking and Finance practice group, and also works in the Industrial, Real Estate and Infrastructure industry groups. He assists mainly borrowers in a large range of Swedish and International financial transactions with emphasis on acquisition financing, real estate financing, loan financing, bonds, structured financing and finance for infrastructure projects. Zoran has long-standing relations with many clients and often becomes involved in most of the client’s financing matters both in and outside Sweden. Through his extensive industry know-how and understanding of the clients’ business, he regularly participates in commercialand strategic discussions on behalf of his clients.

Therese Strömshed

Therese Strömshed is a member of the firm’s Environment practice group. Therese has extensive experience of handling the environmental aspects in complex commercial transactions and large projects, particularly in the energy sector. She specialises in energy-, offshore-, and electricity regulatory matters. Therese has also particular expertise in a broad range of product compliance related matters with primary focus on chemical compliance (REACH, RoHS and CLP), product safety and CE-marking requirements. Therese joined the firm in 2007 and has also worked at the firm’s office in Brussels.

Erica Wiking Häger

Erica Wiking Häger is the chair of the firm’s Corporate Compliance and Risk practice group. She is also heading the firm’s data privacy practice (GDPR). Erica has extensive experience of advising clients on a broad range of compliance related matters, such as risk assessments and designing and implementing compliance programs in the areas of anti-corruption and data privacy. She also assists the firm’s clients in carrying out compliance and sustainability (ESG) due diligence in M&A transactions. Moreover, she has extensive experience of performing corporate investigations in connection with regulatory inquiries, whistleblower reports, and adverse media coverage. Erica has more than 20 years’ experience of data privacy and has developed the firm’s data privacy practice. She assists clients with all aspects of data privacy, such as GDPR compliance, data protection in the context of new business models, strategies for global data transfers, including binding corporate rules (BCRs), and global cyber security incidents. She also has extensive experience of advising clients in connection with investigations by data protection authorities.

Andreas Zettergren

Andreas Zettergren is a member of Mannheimer Swartling’s Banking and Finance practice group and is based in the firm’s Stockholm office. Andreas’ practice includes advising clients in connection all types of financing related matters, particularly project, export and asset financing (including leasing). Andreas is co-chair of the firm’s Energy Sector Group. Andreas regularly advises international and domestic developers, investors and financiers in the renewable space in connection with transactions and financings of these transactions or renewable projects. Andreas has extensive experience in negotiating power purchase agreements, either as part of a transaction or as a stand-alone assignment. Andreas typically acts for generators or financiers and is one of Sweden’s leading legal advisors within this field. Andreas leads the firm’s practice vis-à-vis the aviation industry and regularly acts for entities within this industry (operators, owners, financiers etc) with everything ranging from regulatory matters to transactions and financings involving aircraft and other aircraft objects.