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Sara Bergdahl

Former Associate

Sara Bergdahl’s latest position was associate in the EC, Competition and Regulatory group at the Cederquist law firm, Stockholm. Previously she was a member of the competition department of a major international law firm where she worked in the London office. She specializes in advising on EC and Swedish competition law including merger control, abuses of dominant position, competition aspects of commercial contracts and State aid. Sara is a frequent publisher of competition law articles and speaker at conferences in Sweden. She holds a LL.M degree from University of Lund, Sweden and another LL.M degree from University College London.

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9799 Bulletin

Sara Bergdahl The Swedish Competition Authority conditionally clears a merger in the market for healthcare materials (OneMed/Simonsen)

30 July 2008 2078

The operation On 8 February 2008, OneMed AB (OneMed) notified its acquisition of Simonsen Material AB (Simonsen) to the Swedish Competition Authority (SCA). Both OneMed, through its subsidiary Förbandsmaterial AB (“FMAB”), and Simonsen are active in the wholesale market for healthcare products. (...)

Sara Bergdahl The Swedish Competition Authority cleared an acquisition in the food retail market, subject to the divestment of two-thirds of the acquired stores (ICA/Netto)

5 February 2007 1956

The operation ICA AB is a major food retail company in Sweden. Netto runs food retail stores and prior to the transaction was jointly owned and controlled by Dansk Supermarked A/S and ICA. Dansk Supermarked and ICA agreed that ICA would reduce its ownership in Netto from 50% to 5% and as (...)

Sara Bergdahl The Swedish Competition Authority clears an acquisition in the market for postal services, subject to a behavioural remedy (Posten/Strålfors)

12 May 2006 2069

The operation Posten AB is a state-owned company which provides postal services including mail and package deliveries (para. 2 The companies). Strålfors is a business to business company offering the printing and packaging of business, marketing and electronic communications services as well (...)

Sara Bergdahl The Swedish Competition Authority clears a merger in the energy sector, subject to a remedy intended to facilitate supplier switching by the target’s customers (DONG Naturgas / Nova Supply)

6 October 2004 3696

The operation DONG Naturgas A/S (DONG) is wholly-owned by DONG A/S, which was itself wholly-owned by the Danish State at the time of the transaction. DONG is a producer of natural gas from North Sea gas fields and is a supplier of natural gas to Denmark, Germany, Holland and Sweden. (para.3 (...)