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Advokatfirman Vinge

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Advokatfirman Vinge’s employment practice offers a comprehensive service to blue-chip clients covering terminations, collective bargaining agreements, workforce reorganisations, trade secrets issues, workplace investigations, and disputes. With experience spanning reorganisations and redundancies, outsourcings, and terminations, Sam Seddigh leads the team in Stockholm. Emelie Svensäter Jerntorp, leading in Malmö, focuses on reorganisations, rehabilitation issues, and M&A-related matters as well as C-suite management advice. Practice head in Gothenburg Yohanna Öhrnegård is noted particularly for her recent experience in labour court cases, while Fredrik Dahl is well versed in M&A-related employment issues. Simon Söderholm in Stockholm is also a key contact. Åsa Gotthardsson left the firm in May 2024.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘The team takes a tremendously pragmatic, hands-on approach to dealing with all kinds of issues relating to complex labour law situations. They solve problems fast and deliver outstanding results. They find solutions to tricky situations and try to make their advice easy to understand.'
  • ‘Sam Seddigh stands out as a specifically strong partner, with whom we worked with for many years even before he started at Vinge. He is solid to lean against in tough times, solution oriented and very responsive.’
  • ‘Emelie Svensäter Jerntorp is a highly skilled lawyer with a great commercial understanding, which makes her advice very hands on and to the point.’
  • ‘Emelie Svensäter Jerntorp is very responsive and pragmatic. She does not "educate" clients with her knowledge within Swedish employment law, but provides business-minded short answers which are directly implementable. She is absolutely wonderful to work with in Danish/Swedish cross-border matters.'

  • ‘Sam Seddigh is our main contact at Vinge and is a trusted employment law resource. He is very responsive, on top of the matters, has in-depth knowledge of employment law and truly understands the needs that we have as a business. His experience from having worked as an in-house counsel has been very handy for us, as he can give both legal and practical advice on how to handle the most difficult of cases.'

  • ‘The employment practice group seems to have a very good team spirit. This makes it very nice to work with Vinge.'

  • ‘The team is highly professional and exceptionally knowledgeable in their field. They communicate clearly and effectively, ensuring that all information is well understood. Their structured and organised approach to work instils confidence, making me feel calm and reassured as a client. Their dedication to delivering high-quality results consistently leaves me impressed and fully satisfied with the collaboration.'

Key clients

  • VR Group/Arriva
  • Klarna Bank AB
  • Advisense AB

Work highlights

  • Assisted Advisense with the simplification of the legal structure of its business.
  • Assisted Klarna with several significant outsourcings to third party service providers.
  • Assisting Volvo with handling claims from state authority administration alleging that that Volvo did not fulfil the requirements for the state support during 2020 relating to Covid 19.

Lawyers

Hall of Fame
The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.
Fredrik Dahl
Hall of fameAdvokatfirman Vinge
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Yohanna Öhrnegård
Advokatfirman Vinge

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Sam Seddigh, Emelie Svensäter Jerntorp, Yohanna Öhrnegård

Other key lawyers

Fredrik Dahl, Simon Söderholm