Mr Carl Fhager > MAQS Advokatbyrå > Gothenburg, Sweden > Lawyer Profile

Mr Carl Fhager

+46 768 66 15 22 carl.fhager@maqs.com View profile View profile View profile

Work Department

Sports & Events, Starup/Scaleup, Mergers & Acquisitions

Position

Advokat/Partner

Career

2008- MAQS Advokatbyrå, 2004-2008 BK Häcken (Sports Director), 2001-2004 MAQS Advokatbyrå, 2000-2001 Gothenburg District Court, 1999-2000 MAQS Advokatbyrå

Carl Fhager has considerable experience of project management and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. He also works regularly with capital procurement, investment planning, restructuring and incentive programs. Carl frequently acts as an advisor and provides support to boards and executive management, and sits on several boards as well as being active in a number of not-for-profit commissions within the local sports community.

Carl also specializes in the sports and events industry where he has extensive and unique industry expertise. He advises associations, clubs, agents, individual athletes, media corporations, investors and sponsors on a daily basis in legal and business-related matters that arise within the context of their respective businesses. This may, for example, concern commercial agreements and organizational issues in sports such as company conversions. He regularly gives lectures and teaches the subject of sports contracts at the law school at the University of Gothenburg.

Given his well-known interest in negotiation techniques, Carl has hosted the much-appreciated and very popular podcast Förhandlingspodden since 2016 where he and invited guests discuss exciting negotiations from different perspectives.

Languages

Swedish and English

Memberships

2004, 2008- The Swedish Bar Association, 2010- Member of the Board Swedish Sports Law Association

Education

1999 Gothenburg University (LL.M.), Courses in business administration and psychology

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