Harvest Advokatbyrå

FinTech, Banking and Finance

Counsel

Niklas Sinander has been working with financial regulatory compliance matters as well as banking and finance since 2013. He joined Harvest in 2023 from another Swedish law firm where he was Head of Financial Regulation.

Niklas provides legal and strategic advice to Swedish and international investors as well as regulated entities in all financial regulatory areas. His expertise in financial regulation primarily covers the areas of payment services, consumer credits, securities, asset management (UCITS and AIFMD), investment services (MiFID), crypto-assets, anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing (AML) and outsourcing, where he advises on a broad range of matters including license applications, regulatory compliance and cross-border business expansions.

His expertise in banking and finance includes advising Swedish and international lenders and borrowers on structured finance such as acquisition finance, project finance, real estate finance, alternative lending, peer-to-peer lending and other innovative credit structures. Niklas has extensive experience of both domestic and cross-border transactions.

He has for several years participated in educating LL.M. students on financial regulation and banking and finance at the advanced master program course “Credit and Financial Market Law” at Stockholm University.

Harvest Advokatbyrå, Counsel, 2023-

Cirio Advokatbyrå, Head of Financial Regulation, 2021-2022

Cirio Advokatbyrå, Managing Associate, 2019-2021

Advokatfirman Lindahl, Associate, 2016-2018

Nacka District Court, Law Clerk, 2015-2016

Advokatfirman Lindahl, Associate, 2013-2015

Advokatfirman Lindahl, Summer Associate, 2012

Court of Appeal for Western Sweden, Summer Clerk, 2011

Swedish and English

Member of the Swedish Bar Association since 2017

LL.M., Gothenburg School of Business, Economics & Law, Sweden

Queen Mary, University of London, Post Graduate Certificate, International Finance Law, 2011

Nominated for the Nova 111 List (Sweden) as one of the 20 most talented young professionals and future leaders within legal services in Sweden, 2021

Appointed by the Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation as Country Correspondent, responsible for financial regulatory development in Sweden, 2019