Mannheimer Swartling

Corporate Commercial; Data Privacy; Intellectual Property, Marketing and Media; IT/Tech; Public Procurement; Automotive; Media and Entertainment; Technology

Niklas Sjöblom is a partner at Mannheimer Swartling and chairman of the firm’s Corporate Commercial, IT/Tech and Intellectual Property, Marketing and Media practice groups. He specialises in IT/Tech and Intellectual Property in broad sense. His work includes strategic planning, preparation and negotiation of contracts, handling disputes and to give general advise in these areas, both for Swedish and international clients. Niklas also has extensive experience from outsourcing projects and procurements within the IT sector, technology intense projects as well as technology focused joint ventures. In addition, he has strategically advised clients on, prepared and negotiated a large number of licensing and royalty agreements as well as franchise agreements. Furthermore, he has great knowledge about public procurement, not least within the scope of IT-procurements or other large technology procurements.

Partner, Mannheimer Swartling, 2008- Associate, Mannheimer Swartling, 2000-2007 Part time lawyer at the Volvo AB legal department, 2003-2004 Exchange lawyer, Latham & Watkins, Paris, 2003 Court clerk, Uddevalla District Court, 1998-2000

Swedish, English, French

Swedish Bar Association, 2003 INTA (The International Trademark Association) AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property) SFIR (Swedish Association for Protection of Industrial Rights) Deputy chairman of the board for VIRK (The Western Swedish Intellectual Property Society)

LL.M. (University of Gothenburg, 1997)