DISPUTE RESOLUTION SIMPLIFYING MATTERS

SWEDEN FINLAND THE BALTIC SEA REGION LAW FIRM NORWAY ESTONIA LATVIA RUSSIA MAGNUSSON WHO ARE WE? DENMARK LITHUANIA POLAND BELARUS We offer seamless legal services in all countries across the Baltic Sea Region and beyond. Our team comprises some 200 lawyers focused on creating exceptional commercial value to clients both locally and across the entire area. As a truly multicultural law firm, we are ideally positioned to smoothly guide clients through all the challenges they may face, no matter what country, language or culture. UKRAINE BELARUS / DENMARK / ESTONIA / FINLAND / GERMANY / LATVIA / LITHUANIA NORWAY / POLAND / RUSSIA AND CIS / SWEDEN / UKRAINE CHINA HONG KONG HONG KONG The firm s regional coverage was a main factor in our choice and we found the service was more personalised than with some larger outfits, clients reported. Chambers Global 1

DISPUTE RESOLUTION Magnusson s dispute resolution team handles a wide range of dispute related matters. The team can help its clients in for example dialogues with courts and administrative authorities. Magnusson also acts as counsel in ad hoc arbitration proceedings, as well as institutional arbitrations conducted under various institutional rules, such as, to mention only a few, the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC). The team focuses on international dispute resolution. In addition, Magnusson acts in settlement negotiations, mediations and other types of alternative dispute resolution and dispute avoidance. Magnusson s dispute resolution lawyers also help negotiating and drafting forum selection clauses and other types of dispute resolution clauses in commercial contracts. The team can help managing risks involved in disputes in other ways as well. It is often helpful to clients to seek advice at an early stage of a potential dispute, whereupon Magnusson is able to recommend out-of-court actions and correspondence that may improve the client s position in any subsequent court proceedings or arbitral proceedings. 2 3

INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION Arbitration is the international business community s preferred and sometimes only method of resolving disputes concerning cross-border contracts. In addition, international investors increasingly make use of the protection offered by way of arbitration in bilateral investment treaties and similar international agreements between states. Magnusson s International Arbitration group is well placed to act as counsel and advisor in all such matters, whether they are arbitrated in countries where Magnusson is based or in other leading places for international arbitration. Magnusson s International Arbitration team has experience of ad hoc as well as institutional arbitration between parties from numerous different countries conducted at various arbitral seats and under different procedural rules and applicable laws. Magnusson lawyers themselves represent different cultural and legal systems. They are conversant in a number of languages, including English, Chinese, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Magnusson is well suited to handle matters involving parties and witnesses of different nationalities, as well as documents in different languages. The team s experience covers a wide variety of industry sectors. Magnusson strives to seamlessly and efficiently work in teams from across its offices, put together in order to achieve the best result possible in each case. Magnusson lawyers also serve as arbitrators, which adds to Magnusson s experience in important respects and boosts Magnusson s capabilities also when it comes to acting as counsel and advisor in international arbitration. The judges thought that the firm s growth strategy across the Baltics was an interesting concept with thoughtful and coordinated implementation, resulting in an exceptional increase in cross-office referrals. Comments from the judges of The Legal Innovation Awards 2015. Magnusson won in the category International innovation. 4 5

SERVICE AREAS In addition to representing and advising parties as counsel in arbitration, Magnusson s International Arbitration group acts in other types of alternative dispute resolution, such as for example in settlement negotiations and mediations of international disputes. Magnusson also acts in enforcement proceedings before courts to enforce arbitral awards, and in challenge proceedings before courts to set aside or defend arbitral awards. Other examples of the services provided by Magnusson s International Arbitration team relate to transactional work and the drafting of cross-border contracts. The team is able to assist in the negotiation and drafting of dispute resolution mechanisms, and to consider questions of investment protection under bilateral and other investments treaties when an investment is structured and negotiated. The International Arbitration group gives advice at any other stage before a full-blown dispute has arisen as well. When a dispute is anticipated, the parties initial actions and correspondence prior to the commencement of an arbitration may be critical and it is often possible to improve a party s position at that stage in the event that a subsequent arbitration cannot be avoided in order to resolve the dispute. BANKING AND FINANCE CAPITAL MARKETS CHINA GROUP COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION CORPORATE AND M&A DATA PROTECTION DISPUTE RESOLUTION EMPLOYMENT ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENVIRONMENT EU AND COMPETITION GERMAN GROUP INDUSTRIALS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION LIFE SCIENCES MEDIA, SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Middle East Group PUBLIC PROCUREMENT / PUBLIC SECTOR REAL ESTATE RETAIL AND CONSUMERS SCANDINAVIAN INVESTMENTS IN THE BALTIC SEA REGION TAX TECHNOLOGY TRANSPORT Clients say the team has good commercial acumen and calls back at all hours. Chambers Europe Satisfied clients spoke highly of the team s fast and efficient work the lawyers were flexible in assisting us and really made an effort to understand our business area and provide creative solutions. Chambers Global 6 7

AWARDS & RANKINGS Law Firm of the Year Sweden We appreciate the great partner attention and extraordinarily high service level that Magnusson provides day in and day out. Chambers Europe 8