Bird & Bird
Bird & Bird’s corporate and commercial practice group handles a wide range of matters, including M&A and joint ventures, private equity buyouts, venture capital investments, and post-integration work. The team has a strong reputation for advising on cross-border transactions, particularly in the tech, media, telecoms and IP sectors. Mårten Willamo, noted for his close ties to the Finnish market, leads the firm’s Nordic-wide corporate group. Mattias Lindberg leads the commercial group in Stockholm, while Hans Svensson is corporate head in Stockholm. Jan Byström left the firm for Advokatfirman Lindahl KB in May 2023.
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Key clients
- Arkance
- Buy My Car
- Getlife
- Guesty Group
- Hard Rock Cafecafé
- Homery Digital, S.L.
- Homeserve Asistencia Spain, S.A.
- Job&Talent
- Libnova
- Luceiro Capital
- Phone Service Center
- Soedesco
- Superlumen
- Taxdown
- Tuinar Plots & Houses, S.L.
- Vass Consultoría De Sistemas
- We Are Knitters, S.L.
Work highlights
- Advising search fund Luceiro Capital on the structuring and implementation of the search fund shareholders’ agreement in relation to the acquisition of Spanish company Safetop Innovative Protection, S.L.
- Assisting Kambi Group with the 78,000,000 EUR acquisition of Shape Games, headquartered in Denmark.
- Advising Fertinagro Biotech, in the sale of 50% of the share capital of GlobalFeed to OCP Group, a global phosphate-based plant and animal nutrition products producer.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Mårten Willamo, Mattias Lindberg, Hans Svensson