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About
Provided by Carl Westerberg
Practice Areas
Company Law.
Equity Capital Markets.
Private Equity.
Private M&A.
Public M&A.
Professional Memberships
Swedish Bar Association and American Bar Association.
Publications
Author of company law essays (published in Affarsjuridiska uppsatser and Juridisk Tidskrift). Co-author of several articles on private equity and mergers and acquisitions such as Private Equity - Jurisdictional comparisons (published in the European Lawyer reference series)
Personal
Carl has been a partner at Gernandt & Danielsson since 2007 and is co-heading the firm’s corporate/capital markets practice group. He has more than 20 years’ experience of private and public M&A and equity capital markets in a number of different sectors and his qualifications in this area are regularly confirmed in independent national and international rankings. Carl also has extensive experience of advising private equity clients in connection with investments in and disposals of portfolio companies. He has a broad range of experience from transactions within these practice areas, such as privately negotiated acquisitions and divestitures, public takeovers, joint ventures and private equity investments as well as public equity offerings and private placements.
Experience
Gernandt & Danielsson since 1999 (Partner since 2007).
Visiting lawyer at Slaughter and May (London) 2003.
International associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (NYC) 2004-2005.
Lecturer in company and securities law at Stockholm University since 2007.
Languages Spoken
Swedish.
English.
Chambers Review
Global
Carl Westerberg enjoys a strong standing in the corporate and private equity world, advising corporates, portfolio companies and private equity houses on investments and acquisitions. He also shows strength in capital market transactions including IPOs, listings and private placements.
Carl Westerberg enjoys a strong standing in the corporate and private equity world, advising corporates, portfolio companies and private equity houses on investments and acquisitions. He also shows strength in capital market transactions including IPOs, listings and private placements.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He has very good commercial knowledge and is a good negotiator."
"He is pragmatic and straightforward."
"Carl Westerberg is focused on finding solutions. He is very good at the technical side but also on the business side."
"He has very good commercial knowledge and is a good negotiator."
"He is pragmatic and straightforward."
"Carl Westerberg is focused on finding solutions. He is very good at the technical side but also on the business side."