Kristian Hugmark

Kristian is recognized as one of the leading experts within EU, competition law and State aid in Sweden by international legal directories such as Chambers Europe, Lexology Index (Competition and State aid), the Legal 500 and Best Lawyers. Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) ranks Kristian as a Thought Leader in Competition (2023).

Kristian Hugmark’s experience includes advising:

• Bonnier News in the merger between Retriever group and the Danish Infomedia group;
• A bid consortium consisting of Greenoaks and Long Path in their recommended public offer for Karnov;
• Fisk Ventures III in its sale of Senet to Netmore Group;
• Avalara in its SEK 7.3 billion public offer for Pagero;
• Sprints Capital in its investment in Modular Finance;
• Blackstone in the acquisition of a property portfolio from Corem;
• Philip Morris International in the  sale of SMD Logistics to R12;
• Navamedic in the recommended cash offer to acquire Sensidose;
• Blackstone in the acquisition of a Swedish SEK 5.35 billion property portfolio from Corem;
• Bonnier News in its SEK 455 million public offer for all shares in Readly;
• Aareon AG in its acquisition and delisting of Momentum Software Group;
• IK Partners in the acquisition of Truesec;
• Bonnier and Gota Media in their acquisition of Skånska Dagbladet;
• Fortum in the sale of its 50 percent ownership in Stockholm Exergi Holding to an investor consortium led by APG;
• TA Associates in connection with the public tender offer for Elos Medtech;
• CVC in its USD 1.45 billion sale of AR Packaging Group to Graphic Packaging;
• R12 Kapital in its sale of Aditro to SD Worx People Solutions;
• Patricia Industries, and its subsidiary Vectura, in the SEK 3.9 billion sale of the Grand Group and the Grand Hôtel property to FAM;
• Broadridge Financial Solutions in its acquisition of Itiviti;
• Ingka Investment in its investment in Ikano Bank;
• CVC Capital Partners in the acquisition of Stark Group;
• Funds advised by the Blackstone Group in its SEK 18.1 billion acquisition of 214 industrial properties from Castellum;
• Bonnier Books in the acquisition of 70% of the shares in Strawberry Publishing;
• Stena Adactum and Altor in the public offer for Gunnebo;
• Triton on its public offer for HiQ International;
• Rite Ventures in the acquisition of 23.3 percent of the shares in Qliro Group AB (publ) from Kinnevik AB (publ);
• KKR Credit in a NOK 1,209 million investment in Avida Holding AB (publ);
• MittMedia and Amedia in their acquisition of Hall Media;
• Swedol AB (publ) and the independent bid committee of the board of directors of Swedol in connection with the public offer from Momentum Group AB (publ) against cash or newly issued shares in Momentum Group;
• Blackstone in the SEK 12.2 billion sale of its majority stake in Hembla AB (publ) to Vonovia SE;
• Bonnier in the SEK 9.2 billion sale of Bonnier Broadcasting to Telia Company;
• Altor Fund IV in the acquisition of Trioplast Industrier AB;
• Trygg-Hansa in relation to the Swedish Competition Authority investigation into the insurance sector. A series of on-site inspections (dawn raids) took place in spring 2017. All major insurance companies in Sweden, as well as the largest insurance broker are being investigated;
• Sandvik as their full service deal counsel including handling the global coordination of competition authority approval processes of 1) the SEK 5 billion carve-out and divestment of the Sandvik Process Systems division to Foundation Asset Management AB, owned by the three largest Wallenberg foundations, and 2) the SEK 4 billion sale of Hyperion, a company delivering advanced wear-resistant tools, applications and components in hard and super-hard materials, to KKR, the US-listed investment firm;
• Fortum Corporation in the restructuring of its ownership in Hafslund;
• TDC A/S in the SEK 2.9 billion sale of TDC Sverige AB to Tele2 Sverige AB.

Roschier (2015-)
Advokatfirman Vinge /Brussels, Resident partner (2011-2015)
Howrey LLP, Senior Associate (2003-2010)
The European Commission, DG Competition, Trainee (2002-2003)

Member of the Swedish Bar Association

Uppsala University, LL.M. (2001)

English, Swedish