Advokatfirman Smitt
Advokatfirman Smitt - with its registered trademark SWELAW® - was founded in Stockholm in 1980. At the head office in Stockholm we serve medium-size to listed companies representing a variety of industries - from manufacturing and trade to hi-tech and information technology.
With a modern organisation backed-up by an efficient hi-tech office, we provide professional business legal counselling. We take pride in our high level of expertise and experience which assures prompt and personal service of the highest quality. European Legal 500, the leading European guide to Europe's commercial law firms, recommends Advokatfirman Smitt.
Advokatfirman Smitt has a long experience with Swedish and international business law. The law firm has a number of international clients, principally from Great Britain, the US, Germany and Central and Eastern Europe. To be able to efficiently serve international clients, Advokatfirman Smitt has visiting offices in Zurich and Moscow.
For any commercial activity involving Sweden, tax and financial planning are absolute necessities. The Swedish tax system is highly complex and affects most levels of a business transaction. Our lawyers have university degrees in business economics, and provide the tax and financial advice needed to make your business well-planned and successful.
Advokatfirman Smitt is, due to our international concentration and special competence, the sole Swedish member of IT Law Group Europe - the internationally recognized European network of lawyers specializing in IT law. This network enables us to give fast and accurate legal advice relating to IT and hi-tech in Europe as well as regarding trade between the EU and other markets.
The International Centre for Commercial Law considers Advokatfirman Smitt 'the top law firm in Sweden for computer law-related intellectual property matters.'
Raoul Smitt is an arbitrator (panelist) in the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) for .eu name disputes provided by the Prague-based Arbitration Court. The Czech Arbitration Court administers ADR Proceedings according to ADR Rules and ADR Supplemental Rules, and in line with the Public Policy Rules for .eu of the European Commission (EC Regulation 874/2004). For more information, see www.adr.eu and Panel Decision Case no. 1459.
Advokatfirman Smitt has been sucessfully chosen as the winner of the Corporate Intl Magazine 2011 Global Award for "Licensing Law firm of the Year in Sweden".