Mr Jakob Falkman > Hammarskiöld > Stockholm, Sweden > Lawyer Profile
Hammarskiöld Offices
SKEPPSBRON 42
PO BOX 2278
103 17 STOCKHOLM
Sweden
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Mr Jakob Falkman
Work Department
Partner.
Position
Mr Falkman specialises in mergers and acquisitions, energy and public utilities law and compliance and investigations. He acts regularly for Swedish as well as international clients and has extensive experience from transaction work within for example the energy and public utilities sector. He is a member of the ICC Sweden Commission on Environment and Energy and is also Hammarskiöld & Co’s representative, and the sole Swedish member, in the Energy Law Group; a network of lawyers specialising in energy and natural resources law from independent law firms.
Career
Service with Swedish Courts: Södra Roslags District Court 1993-1995, Svea Court of Appeal, 1995-1997. Employment with law firms in Stockholm since 1997. Secondment with Clifford Chance, London 2001-2002. Advokatfirman Hammarskiöld & Co (1998 – present).
Languages
Swedish, English and German.
Memberships
Admitted to the Swedish Bar Association 2000. Member of the International Bar Association (IBA) (Corporate and M&A Comittee, Power Law Comittee), of the Energy Law Group and ICC Sweden Commission on Environment and Energy.
Education
Stockholm University (juris kandidat, LL.M., 1993); Christian Albrecht’s Universität zu Kiel (1991); University of London, King’s College (LL.M., 1996).
Lawyer Rankings
Sweden > Commercial, corporate and M&A
Hammarskiöld’s M&A team advises a range of domestic and foreign clients – including companies, private equity sponsors, and venture capital firms – with buy-and-build mandates being a recent area of growth for the team. Senior partner Peder Hammarskiöld
boasts vast expertise in both public and private takeovers. Erik Löfwall counts several blue-chip PE funds among his client roster, while Jakob Falkman handles large and mid-cap transations for industrial clients as well as PE funds. Erik Fahlgren is well known for advising Swedish and international clients on cross-border M&A and commercial contracts matters. The four partners jointly oversee the team, within which Magnus Bohman plays a key role, focusing on seller-side mid-cap M&A deals.
Sweden > Energy
Hammarskiöld has broad combined expertise that covers transactional, regulatory and contentious energy matters. Practice head Jakob Falkman regularly advises domestic and international industrial companies, private equity funds, and banks, among other clients, on acquisitions, investments, divestments, and sales in the energy sector, particularly in relation to renewable and energy tech assets. M&A specialist Erik Fahlgren is active in the energy space and was recently involved in matters concerning investments into battery cell technology. Finance expert Rasmus Fahlén specialises in energy infrastructure financings, including wind farm and solar park financing mandates.