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Roschier

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Dispute resolution

Advising clients in a wider range of industries such as the energy, banking, and private equity sectors, the group at Roschier works on high-profile domestic and multi-jurisdictional disputes. Heading the team is Johan Sidklev, who specialises in commercial dispute resolution, with a focus on energy-related disputes involving oil, gas, and renewable energy issues. Shirin Saif is a key contact for commercial arbitration and litigation, with a particular focus on international disputes involving technology elements. Working alongside her is Carl Persson, who undertakes a range of work in M&A disputes. Annika Pynna Lindskog is a key contact for investment arbitration and corporate investigation disputes.
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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • The Dispute Resolution team is extremely hardworking, forward-leaning, gets into the details of the business, and provides agile advice that really helps our business. They are quick to respond and really helpful.
  • Carl Persson is extremely focused, hardworking, and skilled. He brings a sense of calm to stressful situations. He finds himself in any situation or circumstance and, without much (or any) heads-up or previous knowledge of the matter, can provide.
  • ‘Very good strategic insight. Very good understanding of transactional liability insurance polices, very responsive, proactive, and user-friendly.’
  • ‘Carl Persson and Bruno Gustafsson - both very user-friendly, easy to work with, and offer sage, succinct advice in a timely manner.’
  • ‘Top quality practice well-versed in cross-border matters and with a true international perspective. Johan Sidklev and Shirin Saif are world-class.’
  • ‘Johan Sidklev and Shirin Saif are brilliant lawyers and are also team players - highly responsive, thoughtful, and highly collaborative in international teams.'
  • ‘ Johan Sidklev, Carl Persson, and Bruno Gustafsson are a top-notch team. They are sharp, focused, articulate, with a very pragmatic yet determined approach. They do an excellent job as leaders of the disputes and understand cultural differences and know how to navigate within various interests.’
  • ‘Roschier's dispute practice features absolutely stellar legal skills, people skills, ability to lead projects for its clients.’
  • ‘Carl Persson and Aldo Schadewitz are both exceptionally skilled in post-M&A disputes and the valuation considerations related thereto. Carl has great strategic and tactical skills, communicates clearly and convincingly, and will walk the extra mile to see the matter through for you as a client. Aldo is certainly a rising star on the post-M&A dispute scene with his deep experience in valuations matters. Together they formed a great team.’

Key clients

  • Google
  • Fortum
  • Virtue Trustees (BVI) Limited and Virtue Trustees (Switzerland) AG
  • First National Petroleum Corporation
  • Pensionsmyndigheten (the Swedish Pensions Agency)
  • EQT
  • Turkmenistan’s State Agency for the Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources (Turkmennebit)

Work highlights

Acting as lead counsel to Alphabet Inc.’s Google in a SEK94bn (approx. $8.7bn) court dispute with Nordic price comparison provider PriceRunner AB over alleged anti-competitive behaviour in the UK, Swedish and Danish markets concerning price comparison services.
Acted for Fortum Oyj in a successfully settled cross-border dispute with Vestas Wind Systems A/S, a Danish producer of wind turbines.
Acting for Virtue Trustees (BVI) Ltd and Virtue Trustees Switzerland AG in a highly complex cross-border dispute related to the personal bankruptcy of Swedish business tycoon Bengt Ågerup (founder of Q-Med) due to the biggest ever tax debt being enforced by the Swedish tax authorities.

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Practice head

Johan Sidklev

Other key lawyers

Shirin Saif; Carl Persson; Annika Pynna Lindskog; Bruno Gustafsson; Aldo Schadewitz

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