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Advokatfirman Lindahl KB

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Advokatfirman Lindahl KB’s employment team has broad experience covering health and safety, discrimination, harassment, and termination matters, to name a few. Cecilia Kindgren-Bengtsson in Malmö is particularly strong handling reorganisations and redundancies as well as work environment issues. She leads the team alongside Anders Leijon in Uppsala, whose broad practice encompasses trade secrets  issues, discrimination claims, outsourcings, and HR audits. Employment and insolvency law specialist Magnus Löfving in Gothenburg is noted particularly for his work at the intersection of these two areas in redundancy and reorganisation cases. Ottilia Boström in Stockholm is also a key contact in the group.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Anders Leijon and Anna Romell Stenmark are my principal contacts at the firm - I have worked with them both for many years now and trust in them wholeheartedly to assist and support my clients with their HR legal matters in Sweden.'

  • 'Ottilia Boström is an exceptional lawyer who consistently provides clear, concise, and high-quality advice. She has successfully handled a variety of complex legal matters for our company. Her ability to understand our needs and give solutions has been invaluable.'

  • ‘The team lead by partner Ottilia Boström is exceptional - in relation to labour law expertise, managing projects and added expertise of managing international projects. Ottilia is at the heart of all expertise and management of projects. We've also had the pleasure of working with Elsa Antonsson recently, and she has demonstrated a high level of professionalism and expertise.’

  • ‘They are really professional and handle all situations with broad knowledge.’

  • ‘The team is able to deal with all matters of an HR legal nature seamlessly and therefore is very well set up to assist US-based clients particularly with their employment and benefits related challenges in Sweden. Those I work with are strong both academically and commercially - you rarely get lengthy explanations of the law and often get solid, practical legal advice.’

  • ‘The people at Lindahl are undoubtedly the top reason we chose to work with them. We've had experience with numerous law firms worldwide, and Lindahl consistently stands out in terms of support quality and their ability to deliver with a short deadline/notice.’

Key clients

  • M3CS AB
  • Vellinge municipality
  • Green Cargo AB
  • ELON Group Holding AB
  • Novavax AB
  • FRIA Bröd AB
  • A.M.A. Sports Agency AB
  • AGN Haga AB
  • Decathlon Sverige AB

Work highlights

  • Represented M3CS AB in complex legal proceedings, which included claims that M3CS had used the plaintiff’s business secrets, but those claims were considered unfounded by the court.
  • Advised Decathlon Sverige AB on different aspects of employment law on an ongoing basis, including strategic consultations, incentive schemes, trade union negotiations and redundancies in connection with a larger restructuring process.
  • Advised Vellinge, following the tragic drowning of a young child in 2020 in one of Vellinge municipality’s schools, immediately after the accident, in investigating the accident and submitting the results to the Swedish Work Environment Authority, and thereafter during the police investigation as well as represented Vellinge in the criminal proceedings in court (in the district court and the court of appeal).

Lawyers

Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Cecilia Kindgren-Bengtsson, Anders Leijon

Other key lawyers

Magnus Löfving, Ottilia Boström, Elsa Antonsson, Anna Romell Stenmark