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Hans Svensson

Hans Svensson

Bird & Bird, Sweden

Work Department

Corporate

Position

Hans Svensson a Partner in our office in Sweden, and the head of the Corporate practice group in Stockholm. He is a key member of our Media Sector Group and heads the Nordic Tech & Comms Sector Group and the Banking & Finance Practice Group.

Hans has more than 20 years of experience in public and private M&A, capital markets, financing and joint ventures both locally and internationally. His extensive experience means that Hans is very versatile and he is exceptionally successful in the field of transaction advice. His industry and sector experience spans over a wide range of businesses in the communications, media and tech sectors and his clients are mainly entrepreneurs, private equity owned companies, and businesses with strategic challenges.

Apart from offering transaction advice, Hans is also a trusted senior advisor to owners, directors and managers. He attracts extraordinary endorsements from an international and domestic client base.

Career

Managing Partner, Bird & Bird Sweden 2015- , Partner, Bird & Bird 2007- , Associate, Bird & Bird 2004-2007, General Counsel (corporate & M&A), Eniro AB (publ) 2000-2004, Associate, Lindahl 1996-2000, Law clerk, Gothenburg District Court 1994-1996

Languages

Swedish, English, French

Memberships

Hans is a member of the Swedish bar association, Advokat. He is also an active member of several formal and informal business networks in Sweden, Finland and France.

Education

LL.M., University of Lund - 1994, European Master in Law & Economics (Hamburg, Ghent & Paris IX-Dauphine) - 1993

Mentions

Sweden

Commercial, corporate and M&A

Sweden

IT and telecoms