Magnusson Ltd

Corporate and M&A has always been at the heart of Magnusson. With our multi-disciplinary and integrated team, we are able to deliver both excellent transactional skills and specialist expertise.

Our corporate and M&A team advises clients on a wide variety of corporate matters, such as private and public M&A, disposals, demergers, joint ventures, restructurings, start-ups, as well as general commercial, compliance and corporate governance issues. Our client base is equally wide ranging, including multi-national corporations, mid-market companies, state-owned enterprises, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, investment banks and lenders.

Cross-border work is where we particularly excel and most of our transactions have a multi-jurisdictional focus. Our Corporate and M&A team works seamlessly across all of our offices in the Baltic Sea Region and with best friend law firms in many other jurisdictions.

We have advised clients from a wide range of sectors and industries, including banking, financial services and insurance, construction and real estate, energy and environmental, retail and FMCG, automotive, food and drinks, technology, telecommunications, and the media.

This service includes

• Private and public M&A
• Disposals, demergers
• Restructurings
• Start-ups advice and support
• General commercial
• Compliance advice
• Corporate governance

Our international dispute resolution team is on hand to deal with a wide range of dispute related matters.

Our cross-border dispute resolution team has the expertise and understanding that it takes to provide legal services for clients across a large range of issues. We can help clients to build constructive dialogues with courts and administrative authorities.

We can also act as counsel in ad hoc arbitration proceedings, as well as institutional arbitrations conducted under various institutional rules. Our International Arbitration group focuses on cross-border and other international disputes.

In addition, we also act in settlement negotiations, mediations and other types of alternative dispute resolution and dispute avoidance. We are experts in helping clients build dispute resolution strategies from the earliest stages of any potential disputes and can advise clients on what kinds of correspondence and out of court actions may improve their positions in any subsequent court or arbitral proceedings.

This service includes

• Ad Hoc and Institutional Arbitration Services, including International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC).
• Forum Selection Clauses negotiation and drafting
• Court and administrative body correspondence advice
• Dispute Resolution strategy creation

Our employment team provides high-quality legal advice and strategic guidance on domestic and cross-border employment related matters.

Our team has a wealth of experience and specialist competence across a broad range of employment and labor law issues and can provide advice on both day-to-day matters and longer-term challenges.

Whatever the employment issue, we can provide assistance, covering everything from TUPE related advice, employment disputes, labor law compliance, employment related GDPR, through to the creation and adaptation of international incentive schemes.

Our client base is equally diverse; we provide services to medium-sized national and international corporations, and smaller owner-managed companies. Not only that, we also regularly advise overseas law firms with clients in the Baltic Sea Region.

This service includes

• TUPE related advice
• Employment Dispute advice
• Labor law compliance
• Employment related GDPR advice
• International incentive scheme creation and adaption
• Corporate Immigration

Our insurance and financial services specialists provide legal services for a variety of insurance-related matters.

Our experts advise on issues through the entire value chain including cross-border matters.

Our insurance team regularly advises insurance distributors on regulatory and contractual matters, such as authorization applications, insurance policy terms & conditions and distribution agreements.

This service includes

• Entire value chain advice
• Regulatory and contractual matters advice

Our intellectual property team provides high quality legal advice and strategic guidance on all types of intellectual property assets, such as copyright, trademarks, patents, design rights, domain names and trade secrets.

Our intellectual property team supports clients in cross-border intellectual property issues and maintains a solid commercial angle when providing high quality legal support and strategic guidance.

Regardless of the types of intellectual property assets, (e.g. copyrights, trademarks, patents, design rights, domain names and trade secrets) and regardless of the issue, (e.g. dispute, non-disclosure agreement, research and development agreement, registration of IP rights), our intellectual property team is ready to assist.

This service includes:

• Legal advice on all types of intellectual property
• Protection and commercialization of IP rights
• Contract negotiation and drafting
• Marketing and commercial advice
• Dispute resolution

No matter what type of real estate issue that end up at your doorstep, Magnusson is your strategic legal business partner.

Our real estate specialists regularly provide legal advice related to all aspects of the real estate sector. This includes all issues concerning investment in real estate and asset management of properties, as well as other day-to-day advice in the field of real estate law.

That being said – we have extensive experience in advising owners of commercial and residential premises as well as commercial tenants. We also have significant experience in representing our clients in property related negotiations and court proceedings.

In major real estate transactions, or whenever else it is needed, our global team of real estate specialists work side by side across borders to ensure optimal service for our clients. Moreover, we are able to leverage the experience and know-how of members from other teams in our network to guarantee a multi-disciplinary and seamless service to our clients.

Our clients include all actors in the industry. In other words, we regularly advise   developers, real estate investors, investment funds, tenants, banks, property managers, architects and construction companies, municipalities and other players involved in commercial, office, logistics/distribution and residential real estate projects.

This service includes:

• Sale, purchase, and financing of real estate,
• Tenancy, leasehold and letting advice,
• Development, zoning and local planning advice,
• Expropriation and redemption of properties,
• Representation in property related negotiations, regarding inter alia rent levels,
• Representation in property related court proceedings.

In difficult times it is important to have the support of trusted and competent legal advisers. Our cross-border team draws from its expertise and experience to help businesses in financial distress across a range of areas, including Insolvency, Corporate/M&A, Banking & Finance, Employment, Intellectual Property and Dispute Resolution. We stand ready to assist you with any restructuring needs, whether you want to be better prepared for the future or are financially distressed.

We advise on the full range of corporate restructuring issues and can provide a holistic approach to the entire restructuring process. This includes everything from planning and project management to communicating with the relevant authorities and managing business negotiations and labour union negotiations, thanks to the close cooperation between our corporate, banking & finance, IP/IT and employment experts, among others. Whether you are thinking about over the structure of your business’ financing, organisational layout, or contemplating new ways to make it operate more effectively, we can help you and your business find ways to adapt and stand stronger.

Our clients include, among others, domestic and international companies, financial institutions, investment funds, buyers or sellers of assets and shareholders. We cooperate with other experts involved in restructuring and insolvency projects including auditors, strategy advisors and bankruptcy receivers.

Our services include advising on areas including:

• Corporate – , organisational – and operational restructuring across all levels, from corporate group to business unit
• Share and asset transfers, mergers and divestments
• Capital raising and financing matters, including negotiations with lenders and other creditors
• Insolvency
• Employment, including transfers of business, reorganisations and labour union negotiations
• Proactive analyses and arrangements
• Applications and registrations in cases of restructuring and insolvency
• Liquidation
• Personal responsibility of directors and shareholders
• Disputes in cases of insolvency and other procedural issues

Our attorneys in the Retail and Consumers team have extensive practical experience of this sector and the legal areas relevant to this industry. Retail is a changing industry with digitalization and new sustainability goals. Development is driven forward at both national and global level and the growth of new services and products is increasing in the market.

The team consists of employees with in-house experience from retail companies as well as from working closely with companies operating in this industry. Our specialists have many years of experience and industry knowledge from collaboration with companies in the retail industry, both in food and groceries as well as luxury goods and other retail. We assist our clients with legal and strategic advice in important issues such as purchase and consumer law, e-commerce, digitization, commercial agreements, product liability and product security, procurement, commercial tenancy, brand management, marketing issues and data protection. In addition, we assist with corporate transactions, dispute resolution and labor law issues. Based on your needs, we put together a team of lawyers with industry knowledge who are recognized for their specialist expertise in the areas of law concerned.

The team provides services to large and small international and national retail companies on both domestic matters and international cross-border matters.

This service includes

• Retail and Consumer sector advice
• Cross border operations advice
• Negotiating commercial contracts
• Consumer and marketing law advice
• Product safety regulations
• Data protection
• Employment law advice
• Corporate and tax advice