Linklaters

Clients come to Linklaters in Stockholm for Nordic and international legal advice. In addition to local law expertise across the spectrum of commercial law, Linklaters’ Stockholm office has a team dedicated to English law, specialising in mergers & acquisitions, corporate and capital markets law.

Leading Nordic and global companies and financial institutions choose Linklaters to assist on their most complex domestic and cross-border transactions and their most significant regulatory and contentious requirements. Specialists in M&A, banking, capital markets, competition/antitrust, litigation & arbitration, employment, tax, real estate and TMT work in an integrated fashion to provide clients with an unrivalled range of service.

Recent significant transactions and cases include advising

•  the Swedish government on the SEK18 billion bookbuilt offering of shares in TeliaSonera AB. This was the first transaction to be carried out as part of the Swedish government’s new policy to sell six state-owned companies during the period up to 2010
• Deutsche Bank on the SEK10 billion rights issue in SSAB Swedish Steel AB
• Vägverket, the Swedish Road Administration, defending them against charges that one of its business units participated in a cartel
• CapVest on its disposal of the FoodVest Group – this was named “European Large Private Equity Deal of the Year” at the 2008 European Private Equity Awards
• Altor Fund III and Bure Equity AB on the acquisition of Carnegie Investment Bank AB and Max Matthiessen Holding AB from the Swedish National Debt Office
• Vattenfall on its EUR 10.3 billion acquisition of the production and supply arm of Dutch Nuon - the largest cash offering ever in Sweden

Linklaters operates in Sweden through a Swedish incorporated company, Linklaters Advokatbyrå AB.