Mannheimer Swartling’s employment and pensions practice regularly advises major domestic and international companies on a variety of contentious and non-contentious matters. The department has real strength in handling the employment aspects of M&A deals, benefiting from collaboration with lawyers in the firm’s tax, compliance, and M&A teams. With more than 25 years of experience, Stockholm and Gothenburg-based Henric Diefke leads the team. Senior adviser Anders Nordström is an expert litigator, while Tobias Normann’s broad practice covers redundancy disputes, dismissals, workplace investigations, pension issues, and the misappropriation of trade secrets. Charlotte Demegård focuses on union consultations, management contracts, and remuneration and incentives issues.
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- ‘The employment team at Mannheimer Swartling provides clear, pragmatic and well-structured guidance. The team focuses on real risks and can adopt a business-minded approach in line with their clients' best interests.'
- ‘Henrik Diefke is best in class for commercial, succinct advice.'
- ‘Henric Diefke and Tobias Normann stand out for combining profound and deep legal knowledge with business acumen, speed and transparency.’
- ‘Tobias Normann is one of the best lawyers in this field. He is structured, provides fast and pragmatic advice, and is always up to date on the latest changes in legislation and case law. He takes a lot of time to understand his clients' businesses in order to provide the best possible advice.’
- ‘Henric Diefke, Tobias Normann and Anders Nordström are all brilliant employment lawyers.'
- ‘The availability of Tobias Normann is unequalled. He is an exceptional employment lawyer that always delivers an outstanding work product and provides to-the-point legal advice which is useful and easy to understand.'
‘Mannheimer offers a very diverse team with equally competent lawyers across the board. Everyone is up to speed on the relevant matters and know their subject of employment law very well. The clear, to-the-point legal advice provided is unmatched by other firms.'
‘The team has a strong client focus with a view to finding practical solutions rather than lengthy theoretical discussions. They offer very speedy and useful advice.'
Key clients
- Volvo Cars
- ABB
- Sandvik
- Telia
- Electrolux, Electrolux Professional
- SAS AB
- Klarna
- Lear Corporation
- Meta Platforms, Inc.
- Bolt Services AB
Work highlights
- Advised Instabox, a Swedish-founded last-mile logistics/tech start-up, on a rare “merger of equals” with competitor Budbee, to form the combined company Instabee with a valuation of $1.8bn.
- Acting for Columbus Global Danmark A/S in multiple larger disputes concerning unlawful competition and misappropriation of trade secrets by former shareholders and employees.
- Representing Bolt in a dispute against the Swedish Work Environment Authority. The dispute involves legal assessments and strategic decisions regarding legal classification of platform workers.
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Henric Diefke
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Henric Diefke