Peder Grandinson

Partner
Peder Grandinson
Location
Stockholm
Language
Swedish, English

Peder Grandinson mainly works with private and public M&A transactions and investments as well as with equity capital markets and companies law.

Peder has considerable experience from IPOs, public takeover offers, private company and asset acquisitions and divestments, mergers, restructurings, share issues and other capital raisings, share splits, issues of warrants, and of complex company law and corporate governance matters. He continuously advices clients on disclosure and inside information issues, corporate governance, corporate law and compliance with generally accepted principles in the securities market.

Qualifications
Professional background
Partner, Advokatfirma DLA Piper Sweden KB
2016-
Partner, Advokatfirman Hammarskiöld & Co
2011-2016
Senior Associate, Advokatfirman Hammarskiöld & Co
2007-2011
Associate, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates
2006-2007
Associate, Hammarskiöld & Co
2002-2006
Education
Jur. kand., LLM, Stockholms Universitet
2002
Memberships
Swedish Bar Association since 2007
International Bar Association (IBA)
Experience
Selected experience
Represented to the Board of Directors of Ranplan Group in Per Lindberg BidCo's public takeover offer
Represented Collins Aerospace in connection with the sale of its holding in CTT Systems AB (publ)
Represented Stillfront Group AB (publ), in connection with its targeted issue of approximately SEK 500 million to Swedish and international institutional investors through a so-called accelerated book building
Represented Stillfront Group AB (publ) in connection with its placement of SEK 500 million in senior unsecured bonds under a new bond framework up to SEK 1,000 million senior unsecured bond loan
Represented Stillfront Group AB (publ) in its acquisition of Hamburg-based Goodgame Studios for a purchase price of EUR 270 million consisting of newly issued shares and cash
Represented ABG Sundal Collier, Carnegie and DNB Markets, part of DNB Bank ASA in their capacity as Joint Global Coordinators and Joint Bookrunners in connection with the admission to trading of Wilson Therapeutics AB on Nasdaq Stockholm
Represented Carnegie and SEB in their capacity as Joint Global Coordinators and Joint Bookrunners in connection with the listing of LeoVegas AB on Nasdaq First North Premier
Represented Carnegie and SEB in their capacity as Joint Global Coordinators and Joint Bookrunners, Nordea in the capacity of Joint Bookrunner and Danske Bank in the capacity of Co-lead Manager in connection with the admission to trading of Attendo AB
Represented Stillfront Group AB (publ), a global corporate group of game studios and a market leader in free-to-play online strategy games, in its acquisition of KIXEYE, Inc, a leading developer and publisher of pay-per-view online strategy games
Represented Canfor Corporation in its acquisition of 70 percent of the sawmill company VIDA Aktiebolag for approx. SEK 4.1 billion Represented U Global Holding AB in its sale of Universum to StepStone, a company within the Axel Springer group
Represented Stillfront Group AB (publ) in its acquisition of Hamburg-based Goodgame Studios for a purchase price of EUR 270 million consisting of newly issued shares and cash
Represented the shareholders in N365 Group Holding AB (formerly Nyheter365) in connection with the sale of all shares in the company to Mediaplanet
Represented the shareholders in Happy Plugs AB in connection with Scope's investment in the company
Represented NAI Svefa in the acquisition of a majority stake in Värderingsdata in Kungsbacka through the acquisition of shares from a number of minority shareholders as well as a non-cash issue in Värderingsdata
Represented MedCap AB (publ) in connection with its acquisition of 51.1% of Inpac and AirContainer through a newly formed acquisition company in which Inpac's and AirContainer's respective shareholders reinvested
Represented MedCap AB (publ)'s wholly owned subsidiary, Quickels Systems AB, in connection with its acquisition of Cardiolex AB
Represented Scania in connection with Volkswagen's public takeover offer regarding all shares in Scania
Ranking
Testimonals

‘Peder Grandinson is extremely service oriented and always strives to deliver on short notice without compromising the result. He has also managed to get together a team with great capabilities within a broad variety of competences’

‘The performance from the team was extraordinary well executed with Peder Grandinson leading the team. I believe the team at DLA Piper has a pragmatic and time efficient way of working which stands out compared to other firms. This in combination with access and support from other skilled teams across relevant disciplines and geographies within the same firm makes it excellent i.e. a complete service offering with legal advice.’

‘Peder Grandinson is hands-on, pragmatic and understands the client’s needs.’

Legal 500
Ranked in Legal 500 in Capital Markets: Equity 2023