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 & Partners
  • Ranked in band 2 within Corporate/M&A by Chambers & Partners
  • Ranked in band 2 within Private Equity by Chambers & 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 & Partners, 2023

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

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

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

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

Chambers & Partners

News

News 2025-03-20

Gernandt & Danielsson top ranked by Chambers & Partners – Chambers Europe 2025

Chambers & Partners has released the 2025 Europe Guide and Gernandt & Danielsson continues to be ranked for our expertise within Banking & Finance, Capital Markets: Debt, Capital Markets: Equity, Corporate/M&A, Dispute Resolution, Private Equity, Real Estate and Restructuring/Insolvency. We are proud to have 19 individually ranked lawyers,...
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