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About

The firm: The firm’s heritage dates back to a law firm founded in 1918 in Stockholm and as of 1 January 2019 the firm continues to conduct its business under the new name Cirio with around 160 co-workers. The firm continues to build its strategy formulated and successfully implemented over the last few years. Cirio builds on a heritage of providing first class legal advice, aiming to take legal advice to a new level and to be even more innovative for the benefit of our clients and talents. We view technological advancement as positive for humanity. As a result, we are particularly focussed on sectors like energy and infrastructure, digitalization and technology, life science and healthcare, and real estate. We have nurtured our specialised expertise in these sectors over time combining our legal, commercial, and technical insights that assist our clients in achieving their goals. We believe that business should be conducted with brilliance and compassion. Therefore, we provide extensive expertise with unparalleled dedication by handpicking teams that are specifically assembled for each client and assignment. We collaborate seamlessly across our areas of expertise and sectors to develop rewarding business relationships. Cirio is a full-service business law firm, meaning that we offer our clients a wide range of services enabling us to provide all types of legal expertise within business law. We have categorized our legal expertise into four areas that reflect our clients’ needs for legal services: - Transactional services - Business strategy and operations services - Special situations services - Collaborative innovation services Our firm works hard to be the most sustainable law firm in Sweden, both from a social and environmental perspective. We have a detailed plan to reach equal gender representation in the partnership, and we work strategically to become the most attractive law firm to work at, not least by making sure that working conditions are sustainable. Areas of practice: Cirio is a law firm with a complete offering for the clients we work with, which client base ranges from corporate clients and PE funds to international law firms. For this reason, we have a natural focus and strong team in the transactional practice areas, including private and public M&A and banking and finance (including insolvency and restructuring) and litigation. Our restructuring and insolvency team distinguishes itself from competition in the Swedish market by being closely integrated with our banking and finance practice, and thus by being able to offer in-depth knowledge throughout the entire financing cycle. In order to assist our clients in all aspects, we also offer strong practice in areas such as: collaborative innovation; competition; compliance; public procurement; insolvency and intellectual property. ### Languages - English - Swedish - German - French ### Staffing Figures - 76 Total number of lawyers - 27 Total number of partners

Office locations

Stockholm

Stockholm

Cirio Advokatbyrå AB Biblioteksgatan 9 Stockholm Sweden

Practice areas

Corporate/M&ABanking & FinanceInsolvency & RestructuringLitigation & Dispute ResolutionEnergy & InfrastructureTechnology & DigitalizationLife Sciences & HealthcareReal EstateCompetition/AntitrustCompliance & RegulatoryPublic ProcurementIntellectual Property

Lawyers in this office

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Anders Moberg

Anders is a partner and Head of the Merger and Acquisitions group. Anders focuses mainly on the representation of foreign and Swedish companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings. Anders has significant cross-border M&A experience, both from Sweden and the United States, in particular with respect to the energy, medical, IT/telecom and financial sectors. · Corporate / M&A

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Annika Andersson

Annika Andersson is head of Cirio’s Equity Capital Markets and Public M&A group. Annika specialises in equity capital markets and corporate law, with the emphasis on capital market transactions and public M&A, including IPOs, raising of capital, public takeover bids, non-cash acquisitions, mergers and restructurings. Annika’s work includes corporate law, corporate governance and regulatory issues in the equity capital markets, as well as operational and supervisory issues for securities institutions, mutual fund companies and alternative investment fund managers. · Equity Capital Markets

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Carl Axel Morvay

Carl Axel is a partner and a member of Cirio’s Banking & Finance and Debt Capital Markets group. Carl Axel regularly acts for banks, equity sponsors and corporates in complex financial transactions, including leveraged buyouts and acquisitions, renewable energy and infrastructure projects and bond issuances. Leveraging on experience from equity capital market and M&A mandates, much of Carl Axel’s work involves cross-border transactions, advising Swedish clients investing internationally and foreign clients investing in Sweden. Carl Axel has extensive experience of Swedish and international high-yield and investment grade bond issuances and regularly acts for issuers, both PE-backed and listed companies, as well as arrangers. Carl Axel also leads Cirio’s shipping team which offers full service legal advice on all aspects of shipping, including M&A, ship finance, new-building, chartering, insurance, flagging, fleet management and disputes. · Banking & Finance

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Carl Gustaf De Geer

Senior Counsel · Corporate / M&A

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Caroline Olstedt Carlström

Caroline is a partner and head of Cirios’s data privacy group. She has more than 17 years of experience in international data protection and has served as legal and strategic advisor to companies within IT, media, telecommunications, energy, finance and biotech sectors. Caroline's broad experience in data privacy covers a wide range of operational, compliance, regulatory, strategic and policy matters. She has advised some of the world's largest organisations on issues such as international data transfers (employee related privacy matters (monitoring, whistleblowing etc), regulatory compliance and of advising in connection with the drafting and negotiating of data processing agreements. · Data Privacy & Protection

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Cecilia Rossing

Senior Counsel · Energy & Natural Resources

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Daniel Lander

Daniel is a partner and Head of Cirio’s Dispute Resolution team. He is an experienced litigation and arbitration lawyer with a particular forte in disputes concerning banking&financing law and insolvency law, but mandates also include disputes concerning inter alia breach of fiduciary duty, insurance law, agency law, setting aside proceedings, general commercial contracts and general liability law. Daniel has extensive international and crossborder experience. · Dispute Resolution

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David Frydlinger

David is a member of Cirios' Specialist group. He has extensive experience of drafting and negotiating IT agreements, including outsourcing, cloud computing, software development and similar contracts. He is also an expert in data privacy and information security. David is responsible for Vested and relational contracting at Cirio. He is a Certified Deal Architect in Vested and a lecturer in Collaborative Contracting at the University of Tennessee. · Technology & Outsourcing

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Dennis Luttropp Hansson

Dennis is a partner and heads Cirio’s banking and finance group and has a specific focus on leverage finance, debt capital market transaction (including bonds), real estate finance and restructuring & insolvency. Dennis has extensive experience from domestic and cross-border transactions. Dennis is named as a leading lawyer in Sweden in banking & finance by Chambers & Partners. · Banking & Finance

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Emma Dansbo

Emma is Cirio’s managing partner and a member of the firm's private M&A-group. She has a particular focus on representing emerging and growth technology companies, their founders and investors. Emma’s client base includes several Venture and Growth Capital funds as well as emerging growth companies within a broad spectrum of technology verticals. She also has a strong interest in digital transformation. Emma has extensive experience from a wide range of venture capital financings, M&A transactions and start-up work, often with cross-border aspects. Her work also includes advice in matters related to shareholders and corporate governance, incentive programs, commercial agreements and growth strategies. · Corporate / M&A

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Erik Bergenstråhle

Erik is a partner and heading Cirio’s largest group - the Specialist Group including Data Protection, Energy, Shipping, IT & Telecoms, Public Procurement, EU and Competition, Intellectual Property and FinTech. Erik has 25 years of experience in providing legal advice in respect of commercial agreements in general, and in particular IT- and telecom agreements and regulatory work, (out)sourcing agreements, supply chain as well as sales and distribution agreement. · Data Protection

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Fredrik Morfeldt

Fredrik is a partner and specialises in corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, particularly in the energy, real estate, and environmental sectors. Fredrik has substantial experience of renewable energy transactions, particularly those involving wind power projects. · Corporate / M&A

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Hanna Tilus

Hanna Tilus is a partner specialising in the Life Sciences industry focusing on intellectual property, regulatory, marketing law and personal data protection (GDPR). Hanna has extensive experience from advising a wide range of companies within the life sciences industry, for example pharma, MedTech, healthcare and food companies. Furthermore, Hanna has in-house experience of the life sciences industry from working at the global life sciences company Bayer with responsibility for legal affairs, corporate compliance and data protection primarily in Sweden but also in relation to global issues including working out of the pharma HQ in Berlin. Hanna also has extensive experience from advising clients in various industries on IP- and technology-related topics, including transactions, licensing, technology transfers, co-marketing, R&D collaborations, complex commercial contracts, multi-jurisdictional IP-litigation and administrative appeals. Hanna Tilus has been recognized and ranked by several leading legal ranking institutions for her expertise and professional achievements. · Healthcare & Life Sciences

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Jesper Johansson

Jesper is a partner and specialises in banking and finance and his main focus is on acquisition finance, project finance, real estate finance, leasing and other structured financing as well as regulatory matters. He has also considerable experience in leasing and structured financing, as well as derivative products. · Banking & Finance

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Jessica Sondell

Senior Associate · Data Privacy

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Johan Hessius

Johan is Senior Counsel and has more than 30 years of experience in corporate law and public and private M&A as well as divestments in a broad spectrum of industries. His expertise also includes real estate transactions where he has represented a wide range of domestic and international clients. Johan is on the board of directors of numerous companies, both private and public, and is frequently engaged as chairman of shareholders meetings in public companies. Johan has held a number of positions in the Swedish Bar Association including a term as chairman of the Stockholm division during several years. Johan is also frequently engaged as chairman of shareholders meetings in public companies. · Corporate / M&A

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Johan Lindberg

Johan is a Partner and real estate lawyer, with nearly 30 years of experience in real estate transactions, structuring and financing. Furthermore Johan has experience in project development, general real estate law, lease law, zoning and building as well as environmental law. · Real Estate

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Johan Rosén

Johan is a partner and has extensive experience within the areas construction- and consulting law, tort liability and insurance law, lease law and litigation and arbitration. · Construction

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Jörgen Möller

Jörgen is a partner and is Head of Cirio's Energy practice and co-heads Cirio’s Energy and Infrastructure sector group, with particular emphasis on energy. Much of his work involves M&A, corporate law, contracts and infrastructure/energy transactions. Jörgen has worked on a large number of infrastructure and energy projects, and has extensive experience of railway projects, planning, procurement, financing, construction and the operation of wind farms, as well as the purchase/sale of energy companies. · Energy

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Karl Björlin

Partner · Insolvency & Restructuring

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Lars-Henrik Andersson

Lars-Henrik is a partner and specialises in banking and finance, insolvency, restructuring and acquisitions. Lars-Henrik acts for Swedish and international banks and financial institutions in financing and restructuring matters. He is top ranked within insolvency/reconstruction and banking and finance by Chambers Global and Europe since 2010. · Banking & Finance

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Lennart Pettersson

Lennart is a member of the M&A group and is an experienced M&A lawyer whose focus lies on advising private equity firms and their portfolio companies, as well as Swedish and international corporates on cross-border and domestic transactions and joint ventures. He is also engaged as an advisor to Swedish boards of directors in financially challenging situations. He has multi-sector experience regarding business transactions including pharmaceutical, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, and financial services. · Corporate / M&A

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Lisa Ericsson

Lisa is a partner and head of Cirio’s employment law practice group and advises Swedish and international clients on a broad variety of employment related matters, including individual terminations, collective redundancies, internal investigations, trade secrets and non-compete issues as well as pension and other benefit matters. Lisa has long experience from assisting client in connection with reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions, business transfers, outsourcings as well as in union negotiations and employment litigations. Lisa also advices on data privacy matters (GDPR) in relation to employees and other staff. Lisa has experience from working at the employers’ association in the construction and building industry where she advised member companies in employment and collective bargaining agreements matters. She frequently teaches employment law to both clients and external audiences. · Employment

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Lukas Granlund

Lukas is a partner and heads Cirio's Public Procurement group. He specialises in public affairs (including public procurement and state aid) and belongs to Cirio's sector groups Life Science, Healthcare & Food and Digital & Technology. Lukas also has special experience in general administrative law, municipal law and publicity and secrecy legislation in connection with business between the public and private sectors. In procurement law, Lukas works regularly all sectors, and thus has solid experience from both LOU, LUF, LUK and the LUFS legislation, including security-protected procurement. In procurement law, Lukas works continuously with advice and dispute resolution for both suppliers and contracting authorities. Through his involvement in Digital, Lukas has special knowledge and experience from procurement in the digital business sector. Through his involvement in Life Science, Healthcare and Food, Lukas also has special knowledge and experience of the procurement market in the Life Science sector. Lukas has written several legal articles in procurement law in e.g. MedTech Magazine and Offentliga affärer, and is a co-author of Commentary on the Swedish Public Procurement Act (Rosén Andersson, Norstedts Juridik) and the Commentary on the Swedish Act on Public Procurement Act within the Water, Energy, Transport and Postal Services Sectors. Lukas is also one of the authors of “Offentlig upphandling av koncessioner – en handbok” (Granlund, Hallberg, Mühlenbock, Norstedts juridik). Lukas is regularly leading courses in procurement under the auspices of Norstedts. In addition, Lukas is often hired as a speaker in seminars regarding procurement, and has, among other things, participated as a speaker at Upphandlingsdagarna, Mötesplats offentliga affärer, Almedalen and Swedish MedTech's procurement committee. · Public Procurement

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Magnus Björkander

Magnus is a partner and Head of Cirio's Real Estate group and is specialised in Real Estate with almost 20 years of experience from the real estate industry. Magnus’s practice covers a wide range of commercial real estate including real estate transactions, joint ventures, property developments and commercial leases. In addition to the real estate practice, Magnus also has considerable experience in cross border M&A, commercial contracts and corporate law. He has a background as Head of Legal and Head of Transactions & Investments at a leading Nordic real estate developer and has extensive experience in representing Swedish and international real estate companies, listed and private as well as real estate funds and other investors. · Real Estate

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Maria Arnoldsson

Partner Maria specialises in capital markets and corporate law with a main focus on capital market transactions and public M&A including IPOs, the raising of capital, public takeover bids, non-cash acquisitions, mergers and restructuring. Maria also works with corporate law, corporate governance, disclosure issues and regulatory matters on the equity capital markets. · Capital Markets

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Maria Hanbo

Maria is Senior Counsel in Cirio's Energy and Infrastructure group. Most of Maria’s work relates to the energy sector. Her focus is on M&A, contracts and infrastructure/energy transactions. She has a thorough grasp of the legal issues involved in the permitting, procurement, financing, construction and operation of wind farms. She also has considerable experience in respect of district heating and electricity distribution advising clients on transactions, procurement processes and day-to-day issues such as permit compliance. Maria regularly advises Swedish and international clients on regulatory issues and acts for companies in commercial disputes in her fields of expertise. · Energy

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Måns Derk

Måns specialises in Real Estate and M&A. He focuses primarily on transactions and investments involving real estate, real estate development and commercial lease law. Måns also has extensive experience in real estate financing, joint ventures and environmental law. · Real Estate

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Odd Swarting

Odd Swarting is a senior counsel at Cirio within the Life Science, Healthcare, and Food group. He primarily advises clients in matters appertaining to life science, healthcare/pharmaceutical, MedTech and other sectors including forestry. His focus is on regulatory and commercial matters for pharmaceutical and other life science businesses (biotech, pharma, MedTech, e-health, wellness and food, as well as healthcare and elderly care). Odd’s expertise is sought on a broad spectrum of matters ranging from market access (pricing and subsidies) to close collaboration with health care professionals and marketing departments. His practice is mainly directed at commercial contracts, research and development projects and public setor issues. In addition, Odd advises clients with regard to distressed companies, liquidation and restructuring. Odd has 25 years' experience in providing qualified legal advice and has been ranked for many years as a leading Swedish lawyer by many institutions including Chambers and Legal 500. Odd has written numerous legal articles on life science law that have been published in The Life Sciences Law Review, Globe Law and Business, and Getting the Deal Through, Life Sciences. · Life Sciences

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Per Hedman

Per is a partner and specialises in Life Science. He is also active within M&A and private equity including venture capital. He has extensive experience of Swedish and international transactions in logistics, chemicals, life sciences and telecom. He advises private equity companies and foreign listed companies. Per also has key expertise in advising clients in the life science sector on matters concerning alliances/joint ventures, research agreements and supply agreements as well as regulatory issues. Per is head of Cirio's Life Sciences & Food group. · Life Sciences

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Peter Lilja

Peter is a partner and member of the mergers and acquisitions group. He specialises in private M&A, corporate law, joint ventures and financing. Many of his clients operate within private equity, IT/telecom, retail and financial services. He also has extensive international and cross border experience. Peter is also chairman of the board at Cirio Advokatbyrå. · Corporate / M&A

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Pierre Pettersson

Pierre is a partner and mainly specialises in restructuring and insolvency and banking and finance. He has extensive experience of corporate restructuring, liquidations (solvent and insolvent) as well as all matters related to financially distressed companies. Pierre is accredited and regularly appointed as administrator or official receiver in company reorganisations and liquidations, both by the courts and the Companies Registration Office. He also represents creditors in various insolvency proceedings as well as clients in litigation. Pierre is also experienced and assists clients with financing and security arrangements and related issues. Moreover, Pierre is an active member of REKON, the Swedish association for insolvency practitioners and the internationally in the IBA "Insolvency & Restructuring section". · Restructuring & Insolvency

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Ulrica Salomon

Ulrica is a partner and Head of Cirios’s public procurement and competition law group. She has a broad experience of all competition law matters including abuse of dominant position, anti-competitive behaviour, merger control and state aid. She also has a solid background in procurement matters. Ulrica regularly represents clients in court and in their contacts with public authorities. She is frequently engaged to lecture on public procurement and competition law. Ulrica is also a member of Cirios’s group for Compliance and Corporate Investigations and regularly assists clients in matters relating to anti-corruption and other compliance/liability issues. · Competition / Antitrust