Andreas Gustafsson, Senior Vice President/Chief Counsel Europe Nasdaq, is managing the group that provides legal and regulatory support to Nasdaq´s European regulated entities including Exchanges, CCP:s, CSD:s and investment firm in 10 jurisdictions. The responsibility also includes the Surveillance department, which is providing monitoring of members and issuers to the Nordic Exchanges, and the EU affairs department, which is located in Brussels and covers Nasdaq’s work on all major governmental initiatives in Europe. Andreas has been working 13 years at Nasdaq and previously at the Swedish FSA, where he was involved in European working groups such as MiFID.
With Danske Bank since 2014. Previusoly spent 8 years at lawfirms. Currently Head of Legal Sweden, Member of Country Management, Member of Danske Legal Global Management Team, Global Head of MiFID II implementation and post implementation in Danske Legal.
Ulrika Wester currently works as Group Compliance Officer at the international digital entertainment company MTG (Modern Times Group MTG AB), where she is heading the group's Compliance Office covering a range of compliance areas, such as anti-corruption, competition law, data protection and sanctions. She is also responsible for the company’s Whistleblower Process and its Gifts & Hospitality Register Prior to joining MTG, she worked 10 years at Ericsson and was in charge of the group’s competition law matters worldwide and its Competition Compliance program. Being part of Ericsson’s Compliance Office, she developed, maintained and revised policies & procedures, training programs, e-learning tools, etc. for the general operation of Ericsson’s Compliance programs (anti-corruption, competition and trade compliance). Ulrika also have experience in the complex intersection of intellectual property rights and competition law from her work with Ericsson’s IPR & Licensing Organization. Before joining Ericsson, Ulrika worked seven years in private practice at Advokatfirman Vinge, specializing in competition law and public procurement.
Mark Stapleton joined ELM Solutions in 2013 as the regional head of the business in EMEA and is responsible for leading its continued expansion as the Enterprise Legal Management market continues its rapid growth and development. Mark has spent the last 20 years in the B2B information and software markets, previously working for Reuters and Dow Jones. Mark has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Politics.
Nick supports Rolls-Royce’s Marine business. Nick joined Rolls-Royce in 2013, and was appointed as Chief Counsel for Marine in 2015. Before joining Rolls-Royce Nick was a partner in a Norwegian law firm Rasmussen & Broch, and has also held the role as International Coordinator of the Norwegian Competition Authority. He is a practising lawyer in Norway with 20 years of experience.
I have several years of experience working as In-house counsel in Sweden. Fields of expertise are contract law, intellectual property law, competition law, marketing law, consumer law and company law. I am currenlty working at BSH Home Appliances AB being responsible for the Legal Department Northern Europe since 2012. Prior to join BSH, I worked at Ericsson and Sony Ericsson as In-house counsel mainly dealing with complex agreement drafting and negation internationally.
Bergson, with background both in private practice and in-house roles, has 25 plus years of experience and has over the past 10 plus years served as General Counsel in international Fin Tech, Big Data and High Tech Corporations which have been both private equity owned and/or listed at a Nasdaq Exchange. Bergson’s legal experience is primarily focused on Transactions, Governance & Compliance and M&A related legal areas.
General Counsel at Recipharm AB (publ) Board member at the Trust Skatbostiftelsen Advisory Board member at Stockholm Center of Commercial Law at Stockholm University, at the Research Panel of Globalization of Law Formerly Board member at Sveriges Bolagsjurister, the Swedish Company Lawyers Association (2012-2017) and its representative at the European Company Lawyers Association (ECLA) (2013-2017)
Ulf is the founder and COO of LegalWorks. Before founding LegalWorks he spent 14 years as an in-house lawyer in companies like Pharmacia and General Electric, where he held senior and management positions.
Christian Swartling heads the Legal Services department at Stora Enso where he sets strategies, priorities and the budget for a global team of 20+ people. He is also responsible for the global procurement of outside legal services and sits as the secretary to the Group Leadership Team. Christian’s current main focus is to simplify processer, supported by new tools and services, in order to ensure better and more efficient use of Stora Enso’s in-house resources. Christian previous experience includes private practice where he primarily focused on cross-border transactions work in Europe, Russia and the US. Christian’s experience also includes working in global leadership teams with a particular operational and transactional focus on China & South East Asia, South Asia, Europe, Russia, South America and the US. Christian’s industry experience includes financial services, pulp & paper, manufacturing, packaging and legal advisory services. Christian holds law degrees from New York University, School of Law, and Lund University, Faculty of Law. Christian lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife Anna and their two daughters Astrid and Stella aged 8 and 11. On his free time, Christian tries to learn to play tennis.
William McKechnie is Head of Corporate Legal Sweden at If. William joined If in 2008 and has previously held positions as Senior Legal Counsel and Head of Liability Claims. Prior to joining If, William worked as a Senior Associate at Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyrå in Stockholm. William has qualified as an Irish barrister and Swedish advokat.
Cecilia Sternius is Director of Legal Services, Compliance, Operations, Regulatory & Ethics in the Nordics at Accenture. Cecilia joined Accenture in 2014 and prior to that she worked as Nordic Legal Counsel Director at Dell, and has more than 16 years experience as in-house counsel.
Adam Göransson is a lawyer and heads the legal team supporting Nasdaq’s European fixed income and post trade businesses. Currently he is also acting Head of the European Legal and Regulatory Team within Nasdaq. He specializes in financial regulation and securities law. Among other things, he worked on the re-authorization of Nasdaq’s Stockholm-based clearinghouse under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and managed the legal work stream within Nasdaq’s MiFID II implementation project. He has also has acted as Compliance Officer for the Stockholm Exchange. In 2017 he was seconded to Nasdaq’s US legal team in Washington D.C. Before joining Nasdaq he was an associate and attorney at Mannheimer Swartling specializing in public M&A, company law and financial regulation. He received his law degree from Lund University.
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