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Carl Gustaf De Geer and Göran Nyström, highly respected partners at Mannheimer Swartling will become partners at Vinge.

- Carl Gustaf De Geer’s and Göran Nyström’s names speak for themselves and we are of course very pleased that these two exceptional business lawyers now will continue their successful careers at Vinge. Vinge clearly strengthens its expert capabilities within its core areas and Vinge will now be an even stronger legal services provider, says Peter Morawetz, Managing Partner at Vinge Stockholm.

- Vinge is a recognised team-builder and I am convinced that Carl Gustaf De Geer and Göran Nyström will be valuable also in the further development of Vinge’s core values; client-focus, dynamics and personality, Peter Morawetz continues.

Carl Gustaf De Geer is regarded as one of Sweden’s absolutely leading business lawyers within M&A and Corporate Finance. Last year the Swedish business paper ‘Dagens Industri’ ranked Carl Gustaf De Geer as the No 1 business lawyer in Sweden and Chambers Global 2004-2005 stated that Carl Gustaf De Geer "is probably the most sought-after business lawyer in Sweden".

Göran Nyström is one of Sweden’s leading business lawyers within the areas of take-overs, IPOs and other capital market transactions. He is also very engaged in the increasingly important area of corporate governance and in several rule making bodies such as the Swedish Industry and Commerce Stock Exchange Committee (Näringslivets Börskommitte - NBK) and the governmental Take-Over Committee. Göran Nyström is a member of the board of the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law at the Stockholm University and an expert at the Swedish Securities Council (Aktiemarknadsnämnden).

Carl Gustaf De Geer and Göran Nyström are regularly top-ranked in international rankings such as "The European Legal 500" and "Chambers Global - The World’s Leading Lawyers".

For further information contact
Peter Morawetz, ph: +46 8 614 31 30, mobile: +46 70 714 31 30,
e-mail: peter.morawetz@vinge.se or
Fredrik von Baumgarten, ph: +46 8 614 31 07, mobile: +46 70 714 31 07, e-mail: fredrik.baumgarten@vinge.se