Mr Peter Svanqvist > Advokatfirman Schjødt > Stockholm, Sweden > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Peter Svanqvist
Work Department
Banking & Finance
Position
Partner and Head of Banking & Finance practice group
Career
Peter Svanqvist is a partner who focuses on banking and finance, out-of-court restructuring, and insolvency. His principal areas of work are cross-border leveraged finance transactions, real estate finance, fund financing, and investment-grade lending. He represents Swedish and foreign banks, financial institutions, private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers, and direct lending funds.
Peter is the head of Schjødt’s Banking & Finance group. He has been a lawyer since 2003 and joined Schjødt in 2022 from White & Case in Stockholm, where he worked as a Counsel. Before that, Peter worked at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ) and the Swedish law firm Vinge.
He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Stockholm and has a D.U. Europeen en Analyse Economique du Droit, Law and Economics from Université dÁix-Marseille III and a European Master in Law and Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Education
2003 – European Master in Law and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
2003 – D.U. Europeen en Analyse Economique du Droit, Law and Economics, Université dÁix-Marseille III
2003 – Master of Laws (LL.M.), Stockholm University
Lawyer Rankings
Sweden > Banking and finance
Advokatfirman Schjødt’s finance team advises on a broad range of matters, with a particular focus on real estate financing and cross-border leveraged acquisition financing mandates. Venture capital financing and fund financing are also recent growth areas for the group. Insolvency specialist Emma Berglund Uväng, who regularly advises on distressed financings, leads the practice. Eric Halvarsson specialises in domestic and cross-border leveraged finance transactions as well as debt restructurings. Peter Svanqvist’s broad expertise includes leveraged, real estate, and fund finance work as well as investment grade lending. Frida Lantoft recently joined the team as partner from Roschier. At associate level, Anton Lundqvist and Ida Westermark are noted for their contributions.