General counsel of the largest fuel company in Sweden, Anders Eriksson joined Preem in January 2018. He arrived having joined from Ericsson, where he served as vice president and regional...

With a region-wide responsibility at one of the world’s most high profile conglomerates, Andreas Lüning takes charge of Siemens legal operations in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland as well as the...

As senior legal counsel within the SAS Group, Anna Almén provides legal advice and risk assessment, balancing commercial interests and potential legal risk. She has a large amount of experience...

Since 2012, Anna Bülow Zetterberg has been general counsel of Novamedia Sverige, a leading media and publishing company based in Sweden with a large European reach. It specialises in charity...

Anna Byström, general counsel and head of the legal, public and regulatory affairs team at Telenor Sweden, began her legal career as a trainee at Baker & McKenzie, before working...

Anna Rogmark is an experienced general counsel with a demonstrated history of working in the pharmaceuticals industry. She is extremely skilled in legal and business issues related to drug delivery,...

Since 2012, Anne Gynnerstedt has been the senior vice president, general counsel and secretary to the board of directors at Vattenfall, bringing her experience from Saab, SAS and the Swedish...

Since 2012, Annika Bäremo has served as senior vice president and head of group legal affairs, general counsel and secretary of the board of directors at Saab. As general counsel...

Featured in the GC Powerlist: Nordics in 2015, Åsa Ericson Hedström serves as vice president of legal and compliance at Sony Mobile Communications. Based in Stockholm, she brings her considerable...

Åsa Thunman joined Sandvik in 2014 as executive vice president and general counsel, bringing with her extensive experience in the engineering sector gained in several previous positions. She began her...

‘We must strive to have a deep understanding of the business, and to maintain sufficient internal competence and bandwidth to handle frequently recurring matters’, says Brian Belanger, general counsel of...

Carina Bergfelt is a long-serving legal professional for leading global technology provider SKF, having been with the firm since 1990. Founded in 1907, SKF focuses on the development of new...

In April 2014, Carl Knudsen became head of legal affairs for Telia Company in Sweden and a member of the management team. His remit covers all of the leading phone...

‘I have a very unique role, combining general counsel and investment management [work] with board directorships’ explains Carl Östring, the current general counsel of Traction, a Swedish investment firm that...

Group general counsel of the world leading construction and project development firm Skanska, Caroline Fellenius-Omnell first joined the company in 2017 after gaining an impressive array of experience in the...

With almost three decades of experience at Swedbank, Cecilia Hernqvist has served as head of compliance for the historic Swedish banking organisation since 2016. Before assuming her current role at...

Headquartered in Helsinki, Stora Enso is a leading provider of renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wood and paper. The company has four sub-functions in its internal legal department: IP, governance,...

Christina Johard joined Swedish financial organisation SEB in 2011, and during her years as a legal counsel at the Bank had the opportunity to consolidate and add to her financial...

Christina Källenfors is the group general counsel of Com Hem Holding – Sweden’s largest cable company and a leading supplier of television and high-speed broadband – and explains her significant...

Dag Rehme serves as the chief legal officer at If P&C Insurance Company – the largest non-life insurer in the Nordic and Baltic countries – and is responsible for the...

Daniel Jilkén is one of the pre-eminent lawyers in the energy sector in the Nordic region owing to his impact on the Solör Bioenergy Group, which comprises of bioenergy companies...

General counsel David Holmström has led the legal team at corporate finance business Mangold Fondkommission since October 2017, developing the entire internal legal team structure from scratch. He is the...

Alfa Laval is a global leader in the engineering of specialised products and technologies for heat transfer, separation and fluid handling. It creates solutions to help clients to heat, cool,...

Since September 2010, Eva Rydén has been general counsel, secretary of the board of directors and head of the in-house legal team at Boliden, a Nasdaq Stockholm listed metals company....

A legal counsel with almost two decades of experience within Sweden’s iconic global fashion group, Fredrik Björkstedt is rightly regarded as one the country’s most notable in-house lawyers. Beginning his...

In January 2018, Frida Rosenholm was appointed senior vice president and general counsel of world leading security company Securitas. As the company’s lead lawyer, she is involved in commercial partnership...

Gabriella Waldhauser is a senior corporate counsel at The Absolut Company (TAC) based in Stockholm, one of six brand companies within Pernod Ricard, the world’s second-largest spirits group. First joining...

The Solna-headquartered NCC Group is a construction firm that develops and builds residential and commercial properties, industrial facilities and public buildings, roads, civil engineering structures and other types of infrastructure....

Atlas Copco is a leading sustainable producer of vacuum systems, power tools, assembly systems and construction equipment. Currently the senior vice president and general counsel at the historic Swedish industrials...

In Sweden and around the Baltic region, SEB is well regarded as a leading financial advice and full service financial services firm with a strong focus on corporate investment banking....

Since 2008, Henrik Dahlgren has served as senior legal counsel at Klarna, the technology focused commercial bank specialising in online commercial shopping financial transactions. His background in economics and law...

Henrik Fromme began his legal career in 2000 working in private practice, first moving to the in-house sector with Preem in 2007, where he stayed until 2011 when he assumed...

After training as a deputy lawyer at Vinge and Setterwalls and as a notary in a Swedish district court, Jakob Hedén started at Mölnlycke Health Care in 2007 as a...

Jennie Knutsson joined prominent Swedish asset management company Industrivärden in 2015, in a dual role of general counsel and head of compliance, and as a result, has a wide responsibility...

Jesper Bergkvist is the legal director for AstraZeneca’s Nordic and Baltic regions, and is the most senior lawyer in the team taking charge of 10 employees in total. As an...

The world’s largest lock manufacturer by sales, Assa Abloy is a Swedish company that is recognised as a leading provider of intelligent lock and security solutions, and has approximately 46,000...

Johanna Vennström is the general counsel and business integrity officer for global consumer products company Unilever, covering the Nordics region which encompasses the countries of Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and...

Hexagon is a global technology company specialising in the research and development of cutting edge technical solutions involving data management, measurements, artificial intelligence, remote controls and much more. The company’s...

Since January 2014, Jonas Bengtsson has been the group general counsel of Telia Company, a Swedish business that holds a commanding position in the telephone and mobile network operator markets...

Jonas Olsson has served as senior legal counsel at Telia Company since 2000, and has therefore been involved in some of the company’s highest profile M&A deals and product launches...

In 2017 Atlas Copco, the Swedish leading provider of sustainable productivity solutions, announced its plans to split its group into two separate companies. Atlas Copco is the business that focuses...

Julia Lannerheim started her career in private practice as a lawyer at the Vinge law firm, working on corporate law and dispute resolution issues focusing on international and commercial disputes....

Kristin Hedlund is the general counsel for the North region of world leading global logistics provider DB Schenker, entailing responsibility for the legal department for the company’s businesses in Sweden,...

A Swedish public limited company headquartered in Solna, PostNord was founded in 2009 as a result of the merger between Post Danmark and Posten. PostNord is owned 40% by the...

Kurt-Jörgen Olsson has been in the role of general counsel, head of group legal and governance at IKEA since 2012, and has consolidated his reputation of considerable experience and talent...

Lars Sjöbring is the general counsel of Stockholm-headquartered Autoliv, a leading automotive safety technology company with operations globally. Sjöbring expertly manages a global legal team, which consists of 20 members,...

EQT is a regulated global multi-strategy alternative investment firm with approximately 500 employees in 14 countries across Europe, Asia and North America. Lena Almefelt joined EQT in 2012 and is...

Nordic financial services group Nordea has been ably assisted in the execution of its corporate strategy, risk mitigation and compliance affairs by head of group legal Lena Eriksson for almost...

Since 2011, Lisa Lagerwall has presided over the general counsel role of Sweco, the Nasdaq Stockholm listed leading engineering and architecture consultancy with approximately 14,500 employees across 14 countries and...

Danske Bank’s operations in Sweden have historical roots dating back to the 19th century; the Bank was previously known under the name of Östgöta Enskilda Bank, which it traded under...

Since 2010 Marcus Palm has worked for Välinge Innovation, a ground-breaking firm that is in the business of building materials utilising its worldwide-patented technology. Having been forced to deal with...

‘The compliance and ethics team have, with their continuous efforts, made the organisation focus even more on how business is conducted, and conducting business in a responsible manner is key...

SAS is the largest regional and international airline connecting Scandinavia with the rest of the world with over 13,000 destinations and is part of the Star Alliance Group. Marie Wohlfahrt,...

Since 2015, Marie-Louise Heiman has been the senior vice president of group legal affairs and general counsel at Swedish Match, having first joined the company in 1996. Swedish Match is...

Nobina is the Nordic region’s largest and most experienced public transport provider and largest bus company. Martin Pagrotsky joined Nobina in 2006 as general counsel, and added head of compliance...

Martin Wasteson has served as chief legal officer of the legal group at Svenska Handelsbanken since March 2015, having been employed as a lawyer at the bank’s central legal department...

As the senior vice president and general counsel of one of Sweden’s most valuable manufacturing companies, Martina Klaus is responsible for legal matters, logistics and regulatory affairs at Volvo Group...

Kinnevik is an investment company that was founded in 1936 and is focused on building and backing high-growth challenger businesses that use technology to provide consumers with more and better...

After training at Linklaters where he became an associate at the firm, Mikael Green moved to the in-house legal sector, first with Carnegie Investments in 2009 and then in 2015...

Mikael Östman first joined world-leading Swedish multinational Electrolux in 2002, and having since gained a sparkling reputation for advice on challenging global legal issues, assumed his current role of senior...

SCA is a global forestry and wood products company committed to sustainable forestry and environmental initiatives. It is the owner of the largest private forest holdings in Europe, with 2.6...

Mikael Sundström is the current senior vice president and general counsel of Scania, having first joined the Swedish commercial vehicles manufacturer in 2004. As an industry leading transport company that...

Miriam Lewinschal joined Swedish railway contractor Infranord in 2012, after seven successful years in private practice at Mannheimer Swartling and the Stockholm District Court, and was promoted to the role...

Morgan Lundberg began his in-house career at IT company Oracle in 2007 after a decade of competition legal work in the public sector, where he mainly focused on M&A and...

iZettle is an innovative financial services platform that is at the forefront of the fast-developing fintech sector, and through its range of services enables small businesses to take payments and...

Employed by the listed Swedish retailer ICA Gruppen since 2013, Per Behm serves as general counsel and leads the company’s response to all relevant legal matters. He has an excellent...

Per Lyrvall has been country manager of Sweden and executive vice president of Stora Enso since 2013 after becoming general counsel in 2008, having first joined as a legal counsel...

‘As Spotify has grown, so has the need for corporate legal support, and I have built up the corporate legal team at Spotify from scratch. Today, I’m responsible for nine...

As the director of legal affairs and sustainability of the company, Robert Hård is responsible for all legal issues for car service business Mekonomen Group, which is made up of...

Joining Axfood after a decade of experience at the Ramberg Advocater law firm – where she spent several years as a partner – Sandra Brånstad currently leads the Axfood legal...

Sofia Frändberg is executive vice president of group legal and compliance and general counsel of Volvo Group, Sweden’s iconic automotive, aeronautical and nautical vehicle, engine, and other transportation manufacturer. Her...

ABB is a Swedish-Swiss multinational market leading technology company specialising in electric products, robotics and motion, industrial automation and power grids, and operates across 100 countries with approximately 145,000 employees....

Telecommunications firm Tele2 is a pan-European company that has operations in nine countries in Europe and Eurasia, and owing to the sector having large amounts of regulation, requires internal counsel...

Folksam is a large Swedish insurance company with a wide range of products requiring a variety of legal area coverage. Group legal counsel Stina Åkerlind joined Folksam after developing her...

Susan Gustafsson’s in-house legal career first began in 2003, when she joined the global alcoholic beverages company Pernod Ricard as a corporate legal counsel. For the next five years at...

Since February 2012, Susanne Berens Olsson has led the legal team at Göteborg Energi and is involved in all areas of commercial law, corporate law, property law, land rights, public...

Controlled by the Bonnier family, Bonnier Broadcasting is a privately held Swedish media group of 175 companies operating in 15 countries, and includes the mainstream Swedish TV channel TV4, streaming...

Tele2 is the second largest Swedish telecom operator, operating under the Tele2 and Comviq brands, and after the acquisition of TDC Sweden also offers full service, integrated B2B communication solutions....

Willliam McKechnie has led the corporate legal department at if P&C Insurance Company in Sweden since 2012, and currently leads a team of 22 liability lawyers through the many challenges...

Ericsson is a world-leading global business with roots in Sweden, and requires a range of different types of support to mitigate its legal and compliance challenges. Xavier Dedullen’s position of...