ABOUT THE FIRM
The firm focuses on arbitration assignments. Claes Zettermarck appears regularly as arbitrator in Swedish and international arbitration disputes both ad hoc and according to various rules, including the Arbitration Rules of the Arbitration Institute of The Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), The ICC International Court of Arbitration (ICC), The German Arbitration Institute (DIS), The Arbitration Institute of Finland (FAI), The Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Institute of Norway (ADRI) and The United Nations Commission On International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).
In addition to assignments as arbitrator, Claes Zettermarck provides services as a mediator. The office is located at Kungsgatan 8 in Stockholm.
Independent Arbitrator,
Claes Zettermarck,
Stockholm, Sweden
Claes Zettermarck graduated from the law faculty at the University of Stockholm in 1972. Following five years of public service, among other things as a trainee at a district court and junior judge at the Svea Court of Appeal, he started in private practice in 1977. As an associate and partner of Palm-Jensen and Roos his area of practise was focused on construction litigation and arbitration. In 1983 Claes Zettermarck joined the first foreign law firm to open in Sweden, White & Case. He made partner in 1986 and remained with the firm until 2013. At White & Case, the focus of the practice was disputes, litigation and arbitration, and M&A. The disputes practice covered all types of commercial disputes from construction to development of IT systems and disputes in connection with acquisitions. The M&A practice concentrated on the representation of private equity houses.
At White & Case Claes Zettermarck was executive partner of the Stockholm office for 13 years and for the Moscow office for two years. Claes Zettermarck also served on the European Coordination Committee for a number of years and as a member of the firm’s Global Management Board from 2001-2004. Claes Zettermarck has also been active on the board of the Swedish bar. He served as Vice President 2009-2011 and as President 2011-2013.
In Autumn 2023 Messrs. Claes Lundblad and Claes Zettermarck decided to wind up Advokatfirman Lundblad & Zettermarck HB, which they started in 2013.
From 2013 Claes Zettermarck has mainly served as an arbitrator in domestic as well as international disputes.
From January 2024 Claes Zettermarck will continue his practice through Claes Zettermarck Advokataktiebolag.
Claes Zettermarck is fluent in Swedish and English.