Fredrik Sjövall is part of Mannheimer Swartling’s EU and Competition Law as well as Contentious Regulatory teams. He joined Mannheimer Swartling after serving with the Swedish courts; he has also served as Agent of the Swedish Government at the EU courts. The core part of Fredrik’s practice consists of representing clients in all kinds of matters in relation to Swedish and European competition authorities and courts, including cartel investigations, merger clearance and matters relating to abuses of dominant position. He has wide-ranging experience as counsel in court, including as lead counsel in a majority of the biggest competition law cases in Swedish courts in recent years. In addition to his competition law practice, Fredrik appears in commercial cases in court and before arbitral tribunals. He also frequently acts in regulatory investigations and probes and in the administrative courts in the fields of financial, electricity, telecom and postal regulation. Fredrik is an expert in EU procedural law and an author of the Swedish language commentary to the Brussels I-regulation and related EU law acts.
Fredrik Sjövall
Partner, Advokat, Stockholm

- Experience
- Partner, Mannheimer Swartling, 2019-
- Senior Associate, Mannheimer Swartling, 2015-2018
- Agent of the Swedish Government before the EU courts, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 2014
- Associate, Mannheimer Swartling, 2010-2013
- Law Clerk, 2009-2010
- Law Clerk, Svea Court of Appeal, 2008-2009
- District Court Service, 2006-2008
- Education
- DESS Droit et globalisation économique (Université de Paris-I, Panthéon-Sorbonne/Sciences-Po, 2006)
- LL.M. (University of Cambridge, 2005)
- LL.M. (Lund University, 2004)
- International Banking & Finance Law (Queen Mary University of London, 2003)
- Memberships
- Swedish Bar Association, 2013
- Languages
- Swedish
- English
- French
- Publications
- Tre sanktionsprövningar. Från proportionalitet till legalitet i förvaltningsrätten. SvJT 2021 s. 737
- Fem år med Patent- och marknads- överdomstolen: Konkurrensrättsliga avgöranden 2016–2021. SvJT 2021 s. 1027
- De europeiska civilprocessförordningarna. En kommentar, Norstedts juridik 2018
- Se men inte röra – om gränserna för gryningsräder i JT, 2016/17 s. 246
- Bryssel och skiljeförfarande – ett relationsdrama i fyra akter med Sverige i publiken, SvJT, 2015
- Bevisteman i teori och praktik – en generationsfråga?, Svea hovrätt 400 år, 2014
- Is procedure really neutral? Report from the 2012 IBA Arbitration Day, Arbitration News, 2012
- Anmälan: Notariebrottmål, SvJT, 2012
- Om vådan av lagstiftning genom förarbeten – en kommentar till artikeln Inverkandekrav vid skiljedomsklander, SvJT, 2011
- Anmälan: Law as a Moral Idea, SvJT, 2010
- Awards
- Who's Who Legal Competition: Sweden
- Legal500: EU and Competition Law Sweden
- Chambers Europe: Competition/European Law
- Groups and industries
- Contentious Regulatory
- EU and Competition