Gabriel Mellqvist is an anchor at Swedish finance broadcaster EFN, Ekonomi- och Finansnyheterna. He is the host of stock market show Börslunch, and is also a contributing writer and a frequent commentator on markets and economy in other media. Before returning to EFN, he was a journalist working for Dagens Industri. During his sixteen year long career at the financial newspaper, he has for instance covered American business and politics as a New York correspondent, as well as worked as a UK Correspondent in London. He has also worked for Reuters and has also co-authored the book United Stockholms of America.

Jan joined Deutsche Bank in 1988 and has held several positions within M&A, Structured Finance and Corporate Finance. He holds a BA from Pomona College, an MBA from Wharton, an MA from University of Pennsylvania, and a Graduate Diploma in Business Studies from the London School of Economics.

Ina is a partner in Linklaters global antitrust & foreign investment group, based in Brussels. She co-leads the firm’s cross-office FSR practice and heads our Brussels State aid practice. She has diverse experience across advisory, investigatory, and transactional aspects of competition law in the EU and Sweden, including merger control and foreign investment rules. She is advising multiple global companies and investment funds with navigating the issues raised by the FSR.

Peter Lindell is a Partner at Brunswick Group and head of the Stockholm office. Peter advises on financial situations, corporate reputation and crisis. Peter is part of the FIG sector team and Brunswick’s M&A, IPO and investor engagement practice groups. Peter joined Brunswick in 2010 and has 20 years of experience advising boards, management and politicians on business-critical issues. He spent three years at AMF Pension as head of corporate governance, prior to that he spent six years at the Ministry of Industry and has a background as journalist at Bloomberg. Peter has worked on for example public to private transactions such as Roc Oil’s acquisition of Tethys Oil,  Resurs Bank on CVC and Waldakt’s public offer, Nordax acquisition of Bank Norwegian and Veoneer in connection with the bid from SSW and Qualcomm. He has advised clients such as Nasdaq, Preem, NOBA, Mölnlycke, Nordic Capital and Bridgepoint.

Kristine heads up renewable M&A origination at Equinor, an international energy company committed to long-term value creation in a low-carbon future. Prior to joining Equinor in 2019, Kristine was at Morgan Stanley within the Energy Investment Banking Division. She holds an M.Sc. in Industrial Economics and Technology Management from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Fredrik has over 25 years of investment banking experience. He has had a central role in building out Jefferies’ investment banking operations in Stockholm, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, Milan, and Madrid. Although covering clients and executing transactions on a European basis, his emphasis is on clients in the Nordic region. 

Prior to Jefferies held similar roles at Credit Suisse and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Fredrik was also one of the co-founders of Cordet Capital, the alternative credit and direct lending fund. 

He graduated from Lund University, School of Economics and Management.

Per-Olov Bergström is Rothschild & Co's Head of Nordic Region based in the Stockholm office.
Per-Olov has more than 35 years experience in the Nordic M&A, Equity and Debt capital markets 
having provided advice across a wide range of industries.

John is a Senior Advisor and co-leads our Global Antitrust and Competition practice advising clients on the public affairs and media aspects of regulatory situations, particularly in relation to merger and foreign investment approvals.

He is a former lawyer and was a partner of Freshfields for many years , where he founded and managed the Brussels office and co- led the global competition practice. Prior to Freshfields, John worked as a case officer in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition. John has received awards including Antitrust Lawyer of the Year and Antitrust Lifetime Achievement Award both from Global Competition Review. He is a vice-chair of the International Policy Committee of the American Bar Association and chairs an annual conference on foreign direct investment.