Advokatfirman Schjødt’s transactions group in Stockholm works closely with the firm’s partner offices in Norway, Denmark, and the UK to advise on a wide range of domestic and cross-border matters. Ylva Enquist in Stockholm leads the group alongside Tord Fondevik in Oslo. Pontus Bergsten has considerable experience advising private equity sponsors and listed companies, particularly in the eSports, media, gaming, construction and healthcare sectors.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Joachim Funariu is outstanding when it comes to M&A and other corporate matters. He is innovative, bright, commercially minded, and service oriented.'

  • ‘Pontus Bergsten has a very strong commercial understanding and a good tactical approach in negotiations as well as attention to detail.' 

  • ‘Joachim Funariu is very service minded, has good people skills, and is pragmatic and flexible.’

  • ‘A very competent team with excellent collaboration skills, excellent at understanding the clients position and and how to support the client in internal processes, decision making, and when negotiating deals.'

  • ‘The team offers great commercial understanding and client attention.'

  • ‘A pragmatic, commercial and service-minded team.'

Key clients

  • NREP
  • NCC Group
  • Leo Vegas
  • TIAA
  • Procuritas
  • FSN Capital
  • Brunswick Corporation
  • Are Group
  • Ramboll Group
  • Locus Infra
  • Robert Bosch Group
  • Standout Capital
  • Thoma Bravo
  • Waterland

Work highlights

  • Advising NCC Group on all of its material M&A transactions for more than 10 years, including on the sale of its entire No Dig business in Sweden and Norway to No Dig Alliance (NDA AB) owned by private equity company Equip Capital.
  • Advised Ramboll in relation to its investment in Estate Logs AB.
  • Advised XQS in its divestment of substantially all assets and liabilities of its business outside of the US to the Scandinavian Tobacco group.

Lawyers

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Ylva Enquist, Tord Fondevik

Other key lawyers

Pontus Bergsten, Joachim Funariu