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Track Record

Venture Capital & Private Equity

  • Swedish counsel to Press Ganey in the acquisition from EQT Private Equity and Verdane of Forsta, a leading global provider of customer experience and market research technology (2022)
 
  • Chinese Alibaba Group on investment in the Swedish e-sports platform Challengermode (2020)
 
  • SwissHealth Ventures as co-lead investor with international VC investors (Khosla Ventures, Zühlke Ventures, Kirin Health Innovation, Global Brain, SOSV’s HAX) in the Swedish based start-up Flow Neuroscience (2021)
 
  • Swedish counsel to Royal Unibrew, a listed Danish multi-regional beverage company, in the acquisition from the PE fund CapMan of the leading importer and distributor of alcohol Solera Beverage Group (2020)
 
  • Mode Cold Brew AB’s raising financing from VC capital fund Uequity (2021)
 
  • Leading Silicon Valley VC-firms Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Meritech Capital Partners on investments in the security tech company Yubico (2018-2019)
 
  • Smartrac, a global leader in Radio-frequency identification (RFID) products and Internet of Things solutions, on investment in 4E Antenna AB, a leader in green antenna technology (2019)
 
  • The establishment of Södertälje Science Park with Scania, AstraZeneca, Acturum, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Södertälje Kommun (2016)
 
  • Belgian PE firm Korys on the acquisition of shares in Greenbyte AB (2016)
 
  • German PE-firm CAPCELLENCE on the acquisition of 49 % of the shares in Swiss Argo Hytos group (2016)
 
  • Equistone on the acquisition of SportGroup from IK Investment Partners (2015)
  • Advisor to deBroome AB in the sale of the trademark platform BRAND PORTAL to the international SaaS-company MediaFlow Europe AB conducting digital asset management (2024)

  • Advisor to Canadian Erco Worldwide in the delivery of a chlorine dioxide pulp mill plant in Kemi, Finland in a EUR 1.5 billion project (2020-2024)

 

  • David Gray Communications AB in the sale of the advertising agency Open Communications International AB to Digitalist Group Plc, listed on NASDAQ Helsinki (2023)

 

  • Idiomas Holding AB in the sale of Språkservice 24 to the private school group Tellusgruppen AB (publ), listed on Nasdaq First North (2023)

 

  • The global financial rating institute Moody’s on the acquisition of Swedish Bogard AB, a leading provider of data and information on politically exposed persons (PEPs) in the Nordics (2021-2022)

 

  • German headquartered medical diagnostic service provider SYNLAB on the sale of its Analytics & Services (A&S) business to Swiss inspection group SGS (2020)

 

  • ICTA on the sale of the international digital consulting group FFW (2020)

 

  • Zhejiang Yinlun Machinery Co. Ltd, the leading company in China’s industry of automobile radiators, on the acquisition of Swedish Setrab (2019)

 

  • Drug Free Sport (US) on the merger with International Doping Tests & Management (IDTM-Sweden), the world’s leading providers of anti-doping testing (2018)

 

  • World’s largest cork company Portuguese Corticeira Amorim on a Swedish acquisition of Swedish Elfverson & Co AB (2018-2022)

 

  • Wallenius Lines on the merger with Norwegian Wilh. Wilhelmsen (2016-2017)

 

  • Indian Tata Technologies on its acquisition of automotive consultants Escenda Engineering AB (2017)

 

  • Hong Kong-based HF Overseas Co Ltd on the acquisition of the majority shares in Leax Group AB (2017)

 

  • Swiss headquartered Omya on the acquisition of French mineral company Imery’s calcium carbonate facility in Sweden (2014)

 

  • Samsung on acquisition of Nanoradio (2012)
  • Wallenius on a 50/50 joint venture project AlfaWall with Alfa Laval regarding chemical-free ballast water treatment (2008-2023)
 
  • Harvard University on a controversial climate research experiment with a test flight from the Esrange space base in Kiruna, Sweden (2020-2021)
 
  • Wallenius on the establishment of a 50/50 joint venture with Alfa Laval – AlfaWall Oceanbird – for the supply of wind propulsion solutions for sustainable shipping (2021)
 
  • The sale of the majority in NP Gruppen to SolTech Energy Sweden AB (publ) (2019)
 
  • New Chinese shareholder of the Saab e-automobile manufacturer NEVS (2016)
  • SIDA in relation to infrastructure support in Ukraine
 
  • SIDA (Sweden’s government agency for development cooperation) on the water purification project Vodokanal in St. Petersburg with negotiations in Russia
 
  • Swedish state-owned VC company Swedfund International on joint ventures in Argentina, Uruguay and Costa Rica
 
  • Swedish Government agency “National Museums of World Culture” on collaboration with the Henan Provincial Administration of Cultural Heritage (China)
  • Amsterdam-based fashion company Scotch & Soda
 
  • US Hydraforce Inc
 
  • Korean EUKOR Car Carriers Inc

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Advokat Håkan Fohlin is admitted as a member of and regulated by the Swedish Bar Association (Sw. Sveriges Advokatsamfund) and therefore carries the title “Advokat”. Under Swedish law only members of the Swedish Bar Association may use said title. The use of the business name Fohlin Law is for description purposes only. 

Services are provided by Håkan Fohlin who is a member of the foreign department of the Swedish Bar Association and registered as a sole trader (“professional independente”) in Portugal with Tax Identification and VAT number 321981421.

Håkan Fohlin is also registered with the Portuguese Bar Association, license number 69825L, permitted to provide legal services in Portugal as an EU-lawyer under the Swedish professional title “Advokat”.

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