Emma Olnäs Fors

Emma Olnäs Fors is a partner of Mannheimer Swartling, Chair of the firm’s Board, a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions practice group and Co-Chair of the firm’s Energy industry group. Emma has extensive M&A experience across a large number of industries in both domestic and international contexts. She regularly acts for industrial companies, including many of Sweden’s blue-chip companies. She also has experience from transactions with family-owned businesses. In addition to private acquisitions and divestments, Emma is regularly engaged in complex international spin-offs, mergers (particularly joint ventures), restructuring and company-law matters. As Co-Chair of our Energy group, Emma has considerable experience in the industry, in particular the wind and solar power sectors in which she has advised on several of the largest onshore wind-farm and solar-plant projects in Sweden. In addition, Emma is an expert in handling complex projects within district heating and electricity distribution. Emma is also a member of the firm’s Automotive industry group and has for more than ten years handled acquisitions, divestments and joint ventures in the wider automotive sector. Emma is a regular university lecturer and teaches M&A transaction process and due diligence.

Emma is ranked as a leading adviser for Energy-related matters by a number of international ranking institutes, including Chambers Europe and Lexology, and was listed in the 2022 edition of A Word about Wind’s Top 100 Legal Power List. Emma is recognised by clients for being “a good lawyer; she is pragmatic and does not complicate things, which is important to get the job done.”

Chair of the Board, Mannheimer Swartling, 2025 –

Partner, Mannheimer Swartling, 2014-

Associate, Mannheimer Swartling, 2005-2013

Associate, Vinge, 2001-2004