Jakob is the Co-founder and CEO of Djungo. Prior to that, he was the assistant vice president and Legal Counsel Antitrust at ABB. He specialized in EU and competition law (including state aid) and has also special knowledge in public procurement law. He joined Swedavia AB in April 2013 as Legal Counsel and became Director Regulatory Affairs and Competition Law in May 2015. His broad experience in the field includes M&A related competition law (e.g. merger control), advice in relation to anti-competitive co-operation as well as abuse of dominance-cases. Prior to joining Swedavia AB, Jakob has worked for Lindahl and White & Case LLP, the European Commission and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He hold a Master of Laws from the University of Uppsala. He speaks Swedish, English and French.
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Introduction Swedish public entities will from the beginning of next year be prevented from engaging in business activities that distort competition. This is the implication of a legislative bill which the Swedish Government presented to the Swedish parliament (sw: riksdagen) on 19 August (...)
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Factual Background In 2008 the Municipality Board in Upplands Väsby decided to transfer a number of public schools and kindergartens to a private company, Magnetica Education AB. The transfer price was 2 136 000 SEK which was the estimated value of the inventory and equipment in the schools and (...)
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Factual Background In 2008 the Municipality Board in Kungsbacka decided to undertake a guarantee of 17 million SEK in favour of a private undertaking. The private undertaking had constructed a building to be leased by the municipality for kindergarten activities. A private citizen, resident in (...)
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Factual Background In May 2007, the municipal council in Täby, north of Stockholm, decided to close down the public activity at the high school “Tibble Gymnasium” and to approve that the school activity be carried on by a private undertaking (“Tibble Friståande Gymnasium AB” - “Tibble Indepedent (...)
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Factual Background In May 2008, Stockholm municipality decided to transfer the public home-help service in Rågsved and Hagsätra to a private undertaking, Vantörs Hemtjänst AB. Jonas Eklund, a resident in the municipality, initiated court proceedings pursuant to the Local Government Act. He argued (...)
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Factual Background In 2007, the municipality board in Ulricehamn decided to participate in a subscription of shares in a company owned by the municipality to a total value of 15 million SEK. A private citizen resident in the municipality brought court proceedings in accordance with the Local (...)
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Background In November 2005, Thomas Svensson (“Svensson”) appealed a decision by the City Council of Stockholm (the “City”) to the Stockholm County Administrative Court claiming that the decision by the City to give green light to four Stockholm city-controlled companies to invest in broadband (...)
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Factual Background In 2005, the City Council of Stockholm approved an “action plan” meaning that the four important housing corporations controlled by the City would make considerable investments in broadband infrastructure. Thomas Svensson, being a local resident, appealed the decision claiming (...)
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Factual Background On August 25, 2009, the Municipality of Kalmar decided to support a football arena construction project by subsidising the project and guaranteeing for the loan that Handelsfastigheter i Kalmar 2 AB (a real estate company) had to take out in order to finance the arena (...)
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Factual background The applicant is a local resident. He appealed the municipal council in Övertorneå’s decision to sell a swimming arena for 1,00 SEK to the Administrative Court. The sale was not preceded by a public bidding procedure, nor by any independent expert evaluation of the property (...)
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Background The Claimants (Europe Investor Direct Aktiebolag, Rutger Kahn Kommanditbolag and OÜ E Direct) provide information to investors on behalf of large listed companies that wish to sell more shares. In order to contact investors, the Claimants had requested registers of shares, (...)
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Factual Background On March 31, 2008, the municipal council of Årjänge decided to make a trade-off sale whereby it sold the real estate Årjäng Slätten 7 to Tom Hedefur, and in exchange the municipality bought the real estate Årjäng Åsen 1 from him. Local resident Per Gillberg appealed the decision to (...)
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Factual Background On June 17, 2008, the municipal council of Kristinehamn decided to sell the city hotel in Kristinehamn for 3 million SEK to the leaseholder of the hotel. Petra Nyström, a local resident, appealed the decision to the Administrative Court arguing, inter alia, that the decision (...)
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Factual Background The municipal council in Karlskrona decided to sell a piece of land to the building contractor NCC for 5 million SEK. Moreover, it was agreed that the municipality should pay the costs of NCC decontaminating the land (which was required if the land was to be exploited). The (...)
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Factual Background In 2005 the private undertaking AB Göta Kanalbolag was given a grant from the European Regional Development Fund as regards the project “Göta Kanal fortsättning 2006” (Göta Kanal Continues 2006 - Göta Kanal being a famous channel that crosses Sweden from West to East). The purpose (...)
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Factual Background On December 19, 2007, the Stockholm County Council (”Landstingsstyrelsen”) decided that a transfer of public activities to staff of the municipality (so-called “avknoppningar”), within particular areas, should be allowed. In line with this decision, the County of Stockholm (...)
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On 27 March 2008, the Swedish Government submitted a proposal for a new Swedish Competition Act (the «Proposed Competition Act») to the Swedish parliament (sw: riksdagen). The proposed act is suggested to come into effect on the 1 November 2008. The current Swedish Competition Act (SFS 1993:20, (...)
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In 2006, two Swedish municipalities (Haparanda and Övertorneå kommun, hereinafter referred to as the “Municipalities” ) filed a complaint to the Swedish Competition Authority (“SCA”), accusing a number of electricity companies (“Ekforsbolagen”) of abusing their dominant position by refusing to supply (...)
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In 2002, the Swedish Competition Authority (the ) received complaints regarding the Swedish association of companies which provide car towing services, MRF-Bärgarna, and its subsidiary Assistancekåren Sweden AB (“Assistancekåren”). The SCA launched an investigation and in January 2003 carried out (...)
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Factual Background In September 2005, the municipality of Uddevalla decided to give financial support of 900 000 SEK to Film i Väst, a regional film production company. Hans Jonasson, a local resident, appealed the decision to the Administrative Court. The Administrative Court considered that (...)
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Introduction There are no specific rules with regard to state aid in Sweden and the number of cases brought before a Swedish court are few. This, of course, causes a certain amount of unpredictability and uncertainty as regards the application of the EC state aid rules in the national legal (...)
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Factual Background In June 2009, the municipal council in Mörbylånga decided to sell the real estate Fröbygårda 1:1 (a bathing place) to Mattias Johansson. Local resident Margareta Lööf-Johansson and non-local resident Peter Norrby appealed the decision to the Administrative Court in Kalmar. (...)
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