Carl Westerberg

Lawyer information

Practice Areas

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.

Career

Gernandt & Danielsson since 1999 (Partner since 2007). Visiting lawyer at Slaughter and May (London) 2003. International associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (NYC) 2004-05. Lecturer in company and securities law at Stockholm University since 2007.

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

Stockholm University, LLM (juris kandidat) 1999.