Mannheimer Swartling

Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Defence and Security

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.

Jan is consistently ranked as a leading M&A lawyer by Chambers Global and Chambers Europe (Band 1 for M&A; Band 2 for Private Equity), Legal 500 (Leading Partner), Lexology/Who’s Who Legal (Thought Leader) and IFLR1000 (Highly Regarded). Clients describe him as “a preeminent and highly experienced M&A practitioner with an excellent commercial mindset”, “extremely competent, highly dedicated, responsive and a true problem solver”, and as “a charismatic negotiator with technical know-how and a strategic adviser” with “impressive interpersonal skills”.

Partner, Mannheimer Swartling, 2003-

Associate, Mannheimer Swartling, 2001-2002

General Counsel, Spray, 1999-2001

Associate, Mannheimer Swartling, 1995-1999

Trainee, Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, 1993-1994

Swedish, English

Swedish Bar Association, 2002

New York State Bar, 1996

M.C.J. (New York University, School of Law, 1995)

LL.M. (Stockholm University, 1993)

Maritime Law (Oslo University, 1991)