Adding value to business ventures and commercial disputes through legal advice and structural & strategic skills
business ventures
Krocht creates value through legal advice, structural and strategic skills and the ability to distil the decisive argument. Krocht offers to be a long-term business partner as an active owner, or to provide assistance during critical business steps.
Assisting the company’s management in developing the business venture
Assisting the company’s management in preparing the company for a capital raise
Drafting and negotiating agreements in connection with a capital raise
Drafting and negotiating business critical agreements
Managing critical governmental authority contacts
dispute resolution
Krocht provides first-tier legal advice in commercial disputes. Krocht takes assignments as lead counsel in small to medium-sized commercial disputes and can also assist the client as a part of a larger team in more sizeable disputes.
Evaluating the chances of success in a commercial dispute governed by Swedish law
Negotiating pre-trial agreements to avoid unnecessary trials
Acting as lead counsel in commercial disputes that are tried by Swedish courts or arbitral tribunals
Acting as lead counsel in disputes against governmental authorities
Being part of a larger team in more sizeable disputes
Marcus Axelryd
has been practising law for more than twenty years. After starting his career in one of the largest Swedish law firms, he founded and operated a successful and esteemed boutique law firm specialising in dispute resolution and IT & media.
Besides his extensive practice as a dispute resolution lawyer, Marcus has notable experience from working with merger & acquisitions and corporate law.
Dispute Resolution
Extensive experience as lead counsel in commercial disputes in Swedish courts and in domestic and international arbitration proceedings, including lead counsel assignments in several multi billion disputes
As a member of the Swedish Bar Association Marcus was ranked as one of the leading practitioners in Sweden by all major ranking institutions (Chambers & Partner, The Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal and Best Lawyers)
In Chambers and Partners clients for example highlighted his ”fantastic ability to quickly understand extremely complex issues” and valued his ability to “present complex materials and make them understandable”
Lead counsel for a wide range of clients, including many Swedish and international banks, energy companies and entrepreneurs in all types of commercial disputes
Extensive experience from assisting energy companies in their contacts with the Energy Market Inspectorate regarding existing and planned regulations and in appeals against government decisions
Regularly appointed as arbitrator
Merger & Acquisitions
Substantial experience from advising buyers and sellers in domestic and international mergers & acquisitions
Represented a wide range of clients, including Swedish and international energy companies, private equity entities, industrial companies and entrepreneurs in relation to mergers & acquisitions in a various industries, including the energy sector (electricity, gas, district heating, wind power and hydroelectric), IT & media, infrastructure, commerce & consumer, life sciences and the public sector
Corporate Law
Notable experience of giving corporate law advice, including advice in relation to annual general shareholders’ meetings (acting as chairman, secretary or advisor), the issuance of shares and other equity instruments, shareholders’ agreements, joint venture agreements, corporate governance issues, dividend payments and other value transfers
2021- Krocht
2020-2021 Sabbatical
2006-2020 Frank Advokatbyrå AB (since 2021 merged with Sandart & Partners Advokatbyrå)
1999-2006 Advokatfirman Vinge
1994-1999 Uppsala University, LL.M.
1998 University of Minnesota Law School (scholarship)
