Capital Markets and Public M&A

Our Capital Markets and Public M&A team has a long and extensive experience in companies and investors – both strategically and tactically – on all types of capital market activities and related governance and compliance issues.

Our team has extensive experience from advising domestic and international clients, financial advisors, banks, companies, private and institutional investors in connection with all types of ECM and DCM transactions, public M&A and restructurings as well as related company law, corporate governance, regulatory, risk and compliance issues.

Our team has vast experience from corporate and investment banking and law firm practice of participatingon both the buy and sell side, which gives us a solid platform to provide well-balanced and insightful advice to our clients. We always work closely with our clients, often in integrated project teams together with financial and other specialist advisors, and together with the client we establish the strategy for the transaction in relevant parts and identify, analyse and manage legal risks and opportunities in order to ensure an optimal result for the client.

Our team most often acts as lead counsel and project leader in transactions, but also frequently acts together with international law firms in cross-border transactions.

We take an active part in the important development of self-regulation in our markets, among other things through representation on the Swedish Securities Council, as well as in the broader legal developments in our markets.

Our advice includes, among other things:

• Stock exchange listings
• Rights issues
• Primary and secondary placements
• Underwriting consortiums and subscription undertakings
• Cornerstone and anchor investments
• Public tender offers
• Public mergers
• Demergers/spin-offs
• Company restructuring and capital structure in public environment, incentive programmes, etc.
• Corporate governance
• Management of agreements with stock exchanges and regulators
• Insider issues (all MAR related issues)
• General meetings and other corporate actions
• Compliance and risk management