Erik Hellners

Senior Associate, Advokat

Phone: +46 8 598 891 13
Cell: +46 702 63 94 87
Fax: +46 8 598 890 90
E-mail: erik.hellners@setterwalls.se

Assistant: Eva Appelgren
Phone: +46 8 598 890 98
E-mail: eva.appelgren@setterwalls.se

Office: Stockholm
Address: Arsenalsgatan 6
Box 1050
SE-101 39 Stockholm

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Area(s) of practice

ERIK HELLNERS heads the practice group Commercial in Stockholm and is also a member of Setterwalls’ EU & Competition Law and Aviation practice groups. Erik is a commercial and competition law specialist with long experience as in-house counsel with specific responsibility for these issues at SAS, Scandinavia’s largest airline. Erik also has in-depth knowledge of the specific commercial, strategic and regulatory challenges faced by the airline industry. Erik also works with M&A and has substantial experience of leading both Swedish and international M&A projects and joint ventures. In terms of competition law issues, Erik has particular expertise in the various forms of abuse of dominant position, cartels and distribution issues. He has represented clients at proceedings before the EU Commission and various national competition authorities and courts.

Languages: English

Career

2010-, Setterwalls
1999-2010, SAS AB, Stockholm, Senior Legal Counsel
1995-1999, White & Case Advokat AB
1993-1995, Van Bael & Bellis, Brussels
1991-1993, District Court of Huddinge, law clerk
1992, The Swedish delegation at EU, Brussels
1991, University of Uppsala (LL.M.)
1990, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

Publications, speeches etc.

Published various articles regarding legal issues in legal magazines.

Getting the Deal Through - Air Transport 2012, co-author to the Swedish chapter (Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. This article was first published in Getting the Deal Through – Air Transport 2012, (published in September 2011; contributing editor: John Balfour, Clyde & Co LLP). For further information please visit www.gettingthedealthrough.com/)

Getting the Deal Through - Air Transport 2011, co-author to the Swedish chapter (Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research. This article was first published in Getting the Deal Through - Air Transport 2011, (published in October 2010; contributing editor John Balfour). For further information please visit www.gettingthedealthrough.com/.)

Speaker at several legal conferences and seminars like the Competition Law Forum in 2003 and 2009 regarding “The modernizing of the EU competition rules and its direct influence for the trade and industry” and “Possibilities and restrictions imposed by the new guiding principles regarding wrongful use of dominating position” as well as in the IATA Legal Symposium, Hongkong, 2006, regarding "Legal aspects of Frequent Flyer Programs, a Scandinavian perspective”

Guest speaker at Juridicum, University of Uppsala 2009-10, on the topic ”Competition issues in cross-border acquisitions”.

Endorsed

Erik Hellners is ranked in Chambers Europe (Competition/European Law)