Rolf Olofsson concentrates on ICT ventures involving project and equipment finance, general corporate representation and international arbitration. He has particular experience in representations involving space and satellites, and counsels government agencies and commercial enterprises in space-related ventures including treaty negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, satellite acquisition, launches, R&D, insurance contracts and telecommunications systems.

Mr. Olofsson has more than 30 years of experience in the legal issues raised by space, satellites and telecommunications systems. The projects he has advised on have included scientific satellites such as the Viking, Freja and SMART satellites, remote sensing satellites such as the SPOT satellite systems, geostationary satellites such as Tele-X, Marco Polo, Sirius 1-4, the IPSTAR, Hylas and Es’Hail 1 satellite projects, as well as a variety of mobile satellite projects such as Aces, the Cyprus GEM, OverHorizon and Terrestar projects. The representation has varied from conducting treaty negotiations to commercial work including mergers and acquisitions, procurement of satellites and launches, project financing of satellites, transponder leasing, joint ventures, partnering arrangements and dispute resolution, including arbitration.

Mr. Olofsson has served as counsel or arbitrator in Swedish domestic commercial and construction arbitration and in international arbitrations under the Swedish Arbitration Act, the UNCITRAL Rules, ICC Arbitration, SCC Arbitration and AAA Arbitration, involving parties from the U.S.A., Germany, Belgium, Bielorussia, Poland, France, China, Canada, Turkey, Russia, UK and Sweden.

Mr. Olofsson is head of White & Case's Global Communications and Media industry group. In this role, he is responsible for monitoring developments in the various markets as well as changes in the regulatory and legal regimes concerning the industry.

Prior to joining White & Case, Mr. Olofsson was with a leading Swedish firm from 1976 to 1994 and served as resident partner of its New York office from 1988 until 1994. Between 1994 and 2004, Mr. Olofsson was a resident partner in the Stockholm office of White & Case.

Bars and Courts
Brussels Bar (E list), 2005
Foreign Legal Consultant, New York State Bar, 1988
Swedish Bar, 1979

Education
LLM, University of Uppsala, Sweden, 1974

Professional Associations and Memberships
International Bar Association
(Past chairman), Committee Z, Outer Space
Member, Faculty of the London Institute of Space Policy and Law
Member, Space Working Group (formed by UNIDROIT)
Swedish Engineering and Construction Law Group
American Bar Association
European Space Law Association

Awards and Recognition
Legal 500 EMEA 2001 through to 2010
PLC Which Lawyer? 2005 through to 2010
Chambers Global 2001 through to 2009

Publications
"The Lawyers," Satellite Finance, January 2006 (co-authored with Maury Mechanick, White & Case Washington DC)
"What is being done about state subsidies to digital terrestrial tv?," Satellite Finance, May 2005 (co-authored with Kai Struckmann, White & Case Brussels)
"The Unidroit  Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment, the Aircraft Protocol and the Draft Space Protocol," Business Law International, September 2002
The China Business Review, September-October 1989

Languages
English
Swedish
German

Citizenship
Sweden