Rikard Sundstedt

Senior Associate

+46 734 15 26 27
+46 8 670 66 27
rikard.sundstedt@gda.se

Rikard primarily practises in the area of FinTech and other financial regulation, as well as with compliance matters. Rikard’s work includes assisting in licence applications, transactions involving financial companies, supervisory investigations and sanctions matters, and financial regulatory advisory matters.

Practice areas
Experience
  • Gernandt & Danielsson since 2017
  • Secondee, Stibbe, Amsterdam, 2024
Education
  • LL.M., Stockholm University, 2017
Languages
  • Swedish
  • English
Legal community
  • Member of the Swedish Bar Association since 2021
  • Co-author of Lexology In-Depth: Virtual Currency Regulation since the fourth edition (2021) to date
  • Co-author of The Chambers guide to blockchain and cryptocurrency law and regulation since the 2022 edition to date
Ranking
  • Recognised as a “Recommended" within Fintech by Legal 500
Always available with very good industry acumen.

Legal 500 commenting on the Specialist team

News

Matters 2025-11-11

Gernandt & Danielsson has advised DLL in its Nordic licence restructuring

Gernandt & Danielsson has advised DLL in a licence restructuring regarding its Nordic operations. On 23 October 2025, DLL’s Swedish subsidiary De Lage Landen Finans AB returned its licence to conduct financing business to instead become registered as a financial institution. The operations of De Lage Landen Finans AB's Danish and Finnish branches will...
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