Jacob Melander is a partner of Melander Sundbom Advokatfirma. He has worked in the field of commercial law since 1989 and is specialised in national and international litigation and arbitration as well as mergers & acquisitions and in corporate law.

Jacob Melander regularly assists Swedish and international companies before various arbitral bodies and has experience from the SCC, ICC and UNCITRAL arbitration rules. He also acts as arbitrator in national and international arbitration cases under e.g. the SCC, ICC and the UNCITRAL rules. He acts regularly in commercial disputes in civil courts and has experience from several cases in the Supreme Court (Sw: Högsta domstolen). He also has experience from cases before the Swedish Court of Labour (Sw: Arbetsdomstolen) and the Swedish Market Court (Sw: Marknadsdomstolen).

Jacob Melander has acted as arbitrator in mandatory redemption proceedings under the Swedish Companies Act and as trustee in liquidation processes under the Swedish Company’s Act. He has extensive experience in administrating the closing down of larger company groups.

Jacob Melander has participated and structured numerous joint ventures, acquisitions, mergers and divestments including government privatisations. He has assisted in several global initial public offerings as well as public takeovers. He has also held the position as board member of several listed and unlisted companies as well as companies owned by the Swedish government.

Appointed as “Leading lawyer for Capital Market” by Euromoney and “Leading lawyer for M&A” by Chambers Industry Report and several other international rating institutes. Appointed by Legal 500 as recommended lawyer in Corporate and Commercial, Dispute Resolution and Mergers & Acquisitions.

• Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations, New York (1986)
• Junior Judge (Sw: tingsnotarie) (1986-1989)
• Attorney and partner, Advokatfirman Lagerlöf (today Linklaters), Stockholm (1989-1992, 1995-1997) and New York (1993-1995)
• Partner and one of the founders Advokatfirman Hammarskiöld & Co (1998-2016)
• Partner of Melander Sundbom Advokatfirma (2016-)

• Litigation & Arbitration
• M&A
• Corporate
• Compliance & Investigations