Westerberg & Partners

Number of partners: 13

Number of lawyers: 29

Languages: English, Latvian, Russian, Swedish

Firm Overview:

Westerberg & Partners is a boutique intellectual property (IP) and dispute resolution firm. It helps clients in identifying, analysing, strengthening, commercialising and protecting their rights — whether based on IP, contracts, treaties, trade secrets or regulatory frameworks. Open mindedness, focus and flexibility are three of the firm’s core values. The IP team is one of the largest IP teams among Swedish law firms and represents clients in all aspects of IP (except for patent prosecution), including advisory services, contracts, transactions and corporate work for companies with intellectual assets at its core. It is particularly well-known for its copyright, patent and trademark litigation expertise and portfolio management services. In commercial dispute resolution, the firm’s significant experience in Swedish and international arbitration has led to its involvement in some of the most complex and challenging disputes, including acting for and against sovereign states in litigation and arbitration over the interpretation of international treaties and in other high-profile disputes. Westerberg & Partners represents Swedish and international clients, ranging from established giants to start-ups and sovereign states. The firm is built by friends sharing the same vision: aiming to be the best at what they do.

Main Areas of Practice:

Intellectual Property:

Westerberg is one of the leading IP practices on the Swedish market and one of the largest IP firms in the Nordics. Westerberg’s IP team covers all areas of IP except patent prosecution with a 360 degrees perspective on IP, which means that the team includes specialists in both prosecution, commercial and litigation.

We represent clients in most industries and sectors but have a particular strength in the pharma and medtech industries where we regularly represent global companies across all fields of IP, in the technology sector where we work with leading actors in various industries, in the field of fashion where we represent a number of global brands, and in the field of media and entertainment where we advice several high-profile international clients. We also often advice SME clients in developing industries, most recently in AI, NFT, electric vehicles and cannabis related matters.

Contact: Stefan Widmark

Tel: +46 766 170 973

Email: [email protected]

Arbitration & Litigation:

Westerberg & Partners has a strong focus on international arbitration, both commercial and investor-state. The team has unrivalled experience in representing companies and governments before the Swedish courts in actions to set aside arbitral awards. They recently defended two arbitral awards (worth 1,5 billion EUR and 500 million USD) against sovereign states and often do work on recognition and enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards. Further, the team also represents clients before the courts in commercial disputes including international trade, oil and gas, construction and infrastructure projects, IT and telecom, post M&A and other corporate disputes.

Contact: Maria Fogdestam Agius

Tel: +46 766 170 943

Email: [email protected]

Media:

The firm’s media team is one of the leading teams on the Swedish market. The team has significant experience in and in-depth knowledge of all aspects of media law, including copyright issues that are central to the various industries in the media sector, specific media legislation such as the Radio and TV Act, the Freedom of the Press Act and the Freedom of Expression Act, and the particular contract types within the core media industries such as film production contracts, book publishing agreements and music publishing and artists agreements. The team also has in-house counsel experience from the copyright area and the video game industry. The media team’s practice includes both contentious and non-contentious work.

Contact: Hans Eriksson

Tel: +46 766 170 940

Email: [email protected]

Regulatory & Life Sciences:

Westerberghas significant experience ingiving regulatory advice in many highlyregulatedindustries, includingthe pharma, medical devices,alcoholic beverages, food, gaming andtobacco industries, as well as in developing industries such as CBD. Recent work highlights include acting for several originator pharmaceutical companies in tri-party negotiations with the Swedish Dental and Pharmaceutical Benefits Agency regarding pricing of medicinal products, a major classification review for a medical device company regarding contacts with healthcare as well as negotiating and drafting contracts for a collaborative phase III clinical trial.We have also recently succesfully handled a major case on geographical indications for spririts. We represent several large gaming companies in regulatory court cases of high principal value.

Contact: Jonas Löfgren

Tel: +46 766 170 829

Email: [email protected]

IP & Commercial Transactions:

The team advises clients on all commercial aspects of contracts and commercialisation as well as strategies for intellectual assets. It advises clients from most industry sectors, with a notable number of clients from the pharmaceutical and medical device industries as well as the pulp and paper and steel industries. In addition, the team represents high-profile clients in the media and fashion business. The team is appreciated for its commercial understanding and solid business advice.