Carl Westerberg

Partner

+46 734 15 26 24
+46 8 670 66 24
carl.westerberg@gda.se

Assistant

Julia Hjortshagen

Carl has been a partner at Gernandt & Danielsson since 2007 and is co-head of the firm’s corporate/capital markets practice group. He has more than 20 years’ experience in private and public M&A and equity capital markets in a number of different sectors and his qualifications in this area are regularly recognised in independent national and international rankings. Carl also has extensive experience in advising private equity clients in connection with investments in, and disposals of, portfolio companies. He has a broad range of experience from transactions within these practice areas, such as privately negotiated acquisitions and divestitures, public takeovers, joint ventures, and private equity investments, as well as public equity offerings and private placements.

Practice areas
Experience
  • Gernandt & Danielsson since 1999 (Partner 2007)
  • Board member, Gernandt & Danielsson
  • Secondee, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, 2004–2005
  • Secondee, Slaughter and May, London, 2003
Education
  • LL.M., Stockholm University, 1999
Languages
  • Swedish
  • English
Legal community
  • Member of the Swedish Bar Association since 2006
  • Member of the American Bar Association
  • Carl has been teaching special courses on securities law and corporate law to students at Stockholm University since 2007
  • He has also written several articles on corporate law, M&A and private equity
  • Board member in Gernandt & Danielsson
Ranking
  • Ranked in band 1 within Capital Markets: Equity by Chambers and Partners
  • Ranked in band 2 within Corporate/M&A by Chambers and Partners
  • Ranked in band 2 within Private Equity by Chambers and Partners
  • Ranked as "Leading individual" in Corporate/M&A and Capital Markets by Legal 500
  • Recognised as “Recommended” within Fintech by Legal 500
  • Ranked as "Highly regarded" in equity capital markets and M&A by IFLR1000

“Carl Westerberg has sound commercial judgement. He can quickly understand the client's needs and is able to provide tailored solutions to those needs.”
Chambers and Partners, 2023

“He has very good commercial knowledge and is a good negotiator.”
Chambers and Partners, 2024

"Carl is extremely pragmatic, knowledgeable and available. Nothing fazes him and no problem is too complex."
Chambers and Partners, 2025

"Carl is easy to talk to and always willing to help, one of the best legal advisers I've ever worked with."
Chambers and Partners, 2025

"Carl has strong legal skills and commercial understanding."
Chambers and Partners, 2025

Very calm, collected and articulate as well as diligent - he gets his points across very well without causing a stir.

Chambers and Partners

News

Matters 2025-09-17

Gernandt & Danielsson has advised Nordic Capital in connection with divestment of Sesol

Gernandt & Danielsson has advised Nordic Capital in connection with divestment of Sesol Group AB (“Sesol”) to Soltech Energy Sweden AB (publ) (“Soltech”) against newly issued shares in Soltech. As a result of the transaction, Nordic Capital become Soltech’s largest shareholder with approximately 30 percent of the outstanding shares. The completion of...
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