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Bird & Bird’s employment team in Stockholm works closely with other offices in the firm’s international network to advise domestic and international clients on a broad spectrum of matters, including terminations, workforce restructurings, harassment claims, and trade secrets work. With considerable experience covering executive contracts, pensions, and compensation issues as well as transactional matters, Katarina Åhlberg leads the group. Senior associate Dasha Arntyr’s broad experience includes whistleblowing, trade union, and compliance matters.
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  • ‘Bird & Bird delivers timely and clear legal advice, always with a commercial and solution-oriented approach.'

  • ‘Dasha Arntyr not only walked me through the most basic tenets of Swedish employment law, but also coached me and our HR team through a redundancy and the aftermath, including a sticky employee situation. Dasha was practical, timely, and gave guidance that was easily understood and reflected a deep understanding of the nuances of our situation.’

  • ‘I have been very pleased with the services we have received from the Bird and Bird team in Sweden. Given that I am a US based employment lawyer with a global scope and no previous knowledge of or responsibility for Sweden, having the Bird and Bird team there to answer even our most basic questions has been critical.'

  • ‘Bird & Bird's employment practice's ability to move from high-level strategic advice – interweaving the relevant commercial and legal – to efficient hands-on execution makes them unique.’

Key clients

  • Unit 4
  • Lexmark
  • Implement Consulting

Work highlights

  • Assisted Unit 4 inter alia in relation to restructuring projects, redundancies and settlement negotiations.
  • Assisted Lexmark, inter alia, in relation to a global restructuring project.
  • Advising Implement Consulting Group P/S on ongoing employment issues as well as Partner Performance and Incentive issues. This has included considerations in relation to consequences of non-satisfactory performance.

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Practice head

Katarina Åhlberg

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Dasha Arntyr