EXPERIENCE

 

Business Lawyer, Interim legal/general counsel

Vester Legal Consulting AB

 

May 2013 – Present (1 year 6 months) Stockholm, Sweden

 

Interim Legal Counsel Com Hem AB

May 2014 – July 2014 (3 months)Stockholm, Sweden

 

Com Hem is the leading supplier of digital television, high-speed broadband and fixed telephony in Sweden.

As interim legal counsel I supported the legal department. The legal matters I handled alone varied but included i.a. consumer law, IT-agreements and contracts with customers and/ or sub-contractors. I worked closely with the projects and participated in contract negotiations.

 

Interim Legal/General Counsel Bankgirot

June 2013 – March 2014 (10 months) Stockholm, Sweden

 

Bankgirot is a European clearing house and is the only clearing house for mass payments in Sweden. Bankgirot has a central role in the Swedish payments infrastructure. Bankgirot also provides other services e.g. scanning solutions and electronic signatures and e-identity verifications.

During the period the two ordinary in-house lawyers were not in place and I handled all legal matters. I reported directly to the CFO. I worked closely with the compliance officer and the risk officer.

As responsible for the legal matters I worked in all areas of business law and corporate law. Focus was on IT-law, IT-agreements and IT-projects. I held a lecture in competition law.

 

Interim Legal/General Counsel

General Counsel (Chefsjurist) Veolia Transport Sverige AB

March 2008 – May 2013 (5 years 3 months)Stockholm, Sweden

 

Veolia Transport Sverige is owned by the French company Transdev, which has appr 120,000 employees worldwide. The business of Veolia Transport Sverige consists mainly of providing public transportation by buses, trains, trams and ferries on behalf of public transportation authorities. Therefore taking part of public procurement is a daily business. In addition to this the company has commercial traffic such as Flygbussarna Airport Coaches.

I worked as general counsel and was responsible for the legal department reporting directly to the CEO. I was part of the Swedish management committee between 2008-2012 and a board member in some of the group's companies in Sweden. I had direct contact with the legal department in Paris in different projects, making risk assessments, legal reports etc.

My role as general counsel included i.a. the following:

• Member of the Swedish management committee
• Board member in Veolia Transport Sverige AB and subsidiaries
• Member in various steering committees and a decision maker together with the CEO and CFO for bids for contracts
• Providing internal legal advice on an on-going basis
• Drafting and negotiating contracts
• Participating in projects for startup or hand over of Veolia's traffic
• Restructuring of the Swedish group of companies
• Purchasing of legal services (external law firms) and internal delegation to colleagues
• Working with the internal legal processes
• Providing internal legal education/courses

 

Attorney-at-law, partner (Advokat, delägare) KLA Karlerö Liljeblad Advokatbyrå

February 2000 – March 2008 (8 years 2 months) Stockholm, Sweden

 

I worked as a lawyer and finally partner at Karlerö & Co Attorneys at law. The law firm was, and still is, focused on business law. I worked within most areas of business law and helped clients from many differnt types of industries. I was a member of the Swedish Bar Association (advokat). Via the international network the law firm was part of, I was an intern at a German law firm for one month.

Junior judge (tingsfiskal) District court of Bollnäs (Bollnäs tingsrätt)

August 1999 – February 2000 (7 months)

 

Fiscal aspirant (fiskalsaspirant) Court of appeal for Nedre Norrland (Hovrätten för Nedre Norrland)

November 1998 – July 1999 (9 months) Sundsvall, Sweden

 

Law clerk (tingsnotarie) District court of Sundsvall (Sundsvalls tingsrätt)

November 1996 – October 1998 (2 years) Sundsvall, Sweden

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