Pontus Lindfelt provides advice to multinational companies on European Union law matters and corporate transactions.

His practice concentrates on EU competition law and he has substantial experience in advising on mergers, cartels and compliance issues. In particular, he counsels a wide variety of clients on significant mergers and acquisitions which may be subject to prior review and approval by the European Commission under the EU Merger Control Regulation. He also regularly advises companies concerned by EU cartel investigations. Industry sectors involved include the banking, insurance, paper and pulp, energy generation and distribution, construction materials, airlines, agricultural products, forest machinery, IT and telecommunications, crude oil refining, pharmaceutical and bio-industrial sectors.

Pontus Lindfelt also advises on agreements that may be affected by the general EU competition rules, such as joint venture agreements, technology transfer agreements and distribution and purchasing arrangements.

In the field of EU competition compliance, he has helped companies to develop tailored competition compliance programs including due diligence competition compliance reviews and training for company employees on competition law issues.

He has also participated in EU-funded PHARE Projects providing assistance to Central European national competition authorities.

Recent matters in which he has been involved include:

• Representing Norske Skog, one of the world’s largest producers of newsprint, in two of the largest cartel investigations launched by the European Commission to date. All the investigations closed with no finding of cartel activities;
• Representing Nordic Capital and US-based Avista Capital Partners on the merger control aspects of their successful US$4.1 billion bid to purchase the ConvaTec business unit from Bristol-Myers Squibb;
• Representing Spanish conglomerate Uralita in the EU cartel investigation into sodium chlorate and in its subsequent appeal to the CFI;
• Representing a leading European ceramics manufacturer, in connection with the European Commission’s ongoing investigation into an alleged cartel in the bathroom fittings and fixtures sector;
• Representing Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling (CCHBC) in its appeal against a 2006 Hellenic Competition Council decision that CCHBC had not complied with a previous HCC decision which condemned the company for abuse of dominance in the soft drinks market in Greece;
• Representing a publicly listed Spanish chemicals group, in an ongoing EU cartel investigation concerning the animal feed additives market.

Pontus Lindfelt is recognized by Legal 500 as an "experienced practitioner" in the field of EU competition law. In addition, IFLR have praised his competition skills in his representation of Norske Skog (antitrust) and Nordic Capital (M&A and merger control).

Bars and Courts
Stockholm Bar, 1993
Brussels Bar (B list), 1995

Education
JD, University of Lund, 1988
LLM, University of Lund, 1988
Oslo University, 1986

Professional Associations and Memberships
Conseil des Barreaux de la Communauté Européenne (CCBE)
Swedish Bar Association
Brussels Bar Association

Publications
"Remedies in Merger Control,” Europarättslig Tidskrift, Issue 2, 2008 (co-authored with Carolina Bruce)
"EC Merger Remedies—Getting the Deal Through,” European Business Law Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2007 (in Swedish)
"Why monopolies have no future in the EU,” Europarättslig Tidskrift 2/9, 2005 (in Swedish)

Languages
English
French
Swedish

Citizenship
Sweden