Westerberg & Partners

Ginta is specialized in international arbitration and enforcement of arbitral awards and foreign judgments. She regularly serves as sole, chair and party-appointed arbitrator and has handled proceedings under the rules of several leading arbitral institutions and ad hoc. Ginta has particular focus on international trade, construction, energy, IT and post-M&A disputes. Recent mandates as counsel include acting for foreign investors against the Republic of Kazakhstan and the National Bank of Kazakhstan in enforcement proceedings and acting for a major Russian natural resources company in set-aside proceedings against the Republic of Lithuania.

Helena Wassén Öström

Helena specializes in IP strategy and heads the firms Trademark and Design Prosecution department. She focuses on the development and roll-out of the strategy surrounding the protection and maintenance of IP-rights, and especially trademarks, designs and domain names. Helena also collaborates extensively with the vast network of local attorneys Westerberg engages for the handling of matters on behalf of the portfolio clients Westerberg has the privilege of assisting in connection with their global trademark filing and enforcement work. Helena is regularly involved in actions before The Swedish Trademark Office and EUIPO, as well as Swedish courts and the Board of Appeal, in connection with both prosecution and enforcement.

Henrik Wistam

Henrik specializes in IP litigation and IP strategy. He advises clients on trademarks, unfair competition, copyright and design issues in a wide variety of industries handling cases in the Swedish courts, at The Swedish Patent and Registration Office and at EUIPO. He is regularly involved in the co-ordination of proceedings with parallel actions in different jurisdictions. Henrik has acted in a range of high-profile IP matters, which include applications for interim injunctions, asset freezing orders and search orders. Key cases are the first case on sanctions and the EU trademark before the Court of Justice of the EU; pharma trademarks before the General Court of the EU; community designs and the spare part exemption; unconventional trademarks including 3D and color marks; copyright and product design; and the launch of international unauthorized use programs and customs protection. Henrik has advised on several governmental proposals including the implementation of the EC Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of IP rights. He lectures on IP law at the Faculties of Law at Stockholm University and Uppsala University.

Jesper Tiberg

Jesper specializes in commercial dispute resolution with a focus on international and domestic arbitration and domestic litigation. He has acted as counsel and as arbitrator in numerous arbitrations under various institutional rules and in ad hoc arbitrations. Jesper has acted in disputes encompassing a wide range of areas such as supply and purchase agreements, share and asset purchases, agency and distribution, shareholders’ and cooperation agreements, licensing agreements and construction agreements. His experience covers a wide range of industry sectors, including cases in the oil and gas sector, the automotive industry, the financial industry and the banking sector, the pharmaceutical and life-science sector as well as in entertainment and sports.

Jonas Westerberg

Jonas has 30 years’ experience as a lawyer, and he has specialized in intellectual property disputes for 25 years. He represents clients in both arbitration and court, with a special focus on patents, copyright and trade secrets. Jonas' work highlights include patent litigation concerning the pharmaceutical products Losec, Prozac and OxyContin; successfully representing a client in the first IP case passing the requirement of leave to appeal and certiorari to the Supreme Court since the restructuring of the Swedish IP court system in 2016; arbitration concerning scope and term of a major multi-jurisdictional cross-licensing agreement; and defending the validity of a client’s infringed patent relating to large infrastructure projects that resulted in one of the largest awards of damages in Swedish patent history. He has also represented a client in a dispute concerning electronic signatures with a value of SEK 7 billion.

Maria Fogdestam Agius

Dispute resolution

Stefan Widmark

Stefan is specialized in Intellectual property, Media & Entertainment and Marketing Law, covering both contentious and non-contentious matters and working with clients in all industries. Within Intellectual Property law he has a particular focus on Copyright and Trademark law. Within Media & Entertainment his main experience lies in the film, tv, music, gambling and computer gaming industries.

Stefan Bessman

Specialises in International arbitration, litigation, dispute resolution, insurance litigation and non-contentious insurance advice.

Therese Isaksson

Therese specializes in commercial arbitration and litigation in which she has more than 20 years’ experience. Much of her work is international, in court and arbitration. She regularly serves as sole, chair and party-appointed arbitrator. Experienced from many industry sectors, she has particular focus on international trade, construction, energy, often with an East-West angle, post-M&A and insurance. She has handled several significant cases concerning the set-aside or annulment of arbitral awards and enforcement proceedings in Sweden, often acting for or against sovereign entities.

Wendela Hårdemark

Wendela is a partner in Westerberg’s IP group since 2022. Wendela has more than fifteen years of experience in dispute resolution and specialises in intellectual property disputes. Over the years, her practice has increasingly come to focus on patents, and she has litigated and provided advice in several technical areas, including pharmaceuticals, biosimilars, medical devices, computer implemented inventions and industrial processes and mechanics in general. Wendela also has significant experience in the field of copyright, having worked as general counsel at the Swedish Collective Rights Management Organisation for composers of music (STIM). She regularly provides advice on the use of copyrighted works and new technologies such as AI and non-fungible tokens. Wendela has also represented clients in arbitration proceedings concerning technically complex issues and intellectual property rights.

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