Helena Rönqvist

Summary

Helena Rönqvist is head of the IT/IP and media law practice at Magnusson. She has several years’ experience as a Swedish lawyer both from private practice and as legal counsel within the IT/tech industry. She advices Swedish and international companies across a diverse range of industries, including consumer products, retail, life science and technology. She supports in all commercial aspects related to intellectual property, including brand enforcement, copyrights, anti-counterfeit, advertisement, consumer law and digital media. Helena Rönqvist also works with licensing, IT, outsourcing and other commercial agreements as well as data protection and transactions.

Helena is the author of the Swedish chapter for The Legal 500: Intellectual Property Country Comparative Guide

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Professional experience

Magnusson Advokatbyrå
Advokat/Partner 2018 – to date

DXC Technology
Legal Counsel 2017 – 2018

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Legal Counsel 2015 – 2017

Baker & McKenzie Advokatbyrå
Advokat/Senior Associate 2010 – 2015

Awapatent AB
IP Lawyer 2007 – 2009

AGL Advokater
Associate 2006 – 2007

District Court of Kalmar
Law Clerk 2004 – 2006

Education

Master of Laws (LL.M.), Lund University 2004

Bar Admissions

Admitted in Sweden (Advokat) – 2011-2015 and 2018-to date

Languages

• Swedish – native
• English – fluent

Positions of trust

Member of the Committee of Marketing and Advertising, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

Awards and rankings

Helena Rönqvist is continuously recommended in the areas of Intellectual Property and Media, IT and Telecoms, and Data Privacy and Data Protection by leading benchmarking publications, such as The Legal 500 EMEA, and in the area of FinTech Legal (department) by Chambers and Partners. She is also ranked both Copyright star and Trademark star by IP STARS (Managing IP) and acknowledged as a recommended individual for trademark prosecution and strategy by the World Trademark Review 1000.

Sources state:
‘Helena Rönqvist is a star in understanding our business challenges and in translating them into clear, well written IT/GDPR/intellectual property agreements. On top, I learn something valuable from her in every session’ – Legal 500
‘Wide range of competence in all aspects of the field’ – Legal 500
‘Magnusson is fast, nice, efficient, and straight to the point. Assists in a professional way to develop clear and accurate supplier agreements for our partner agreements. Very responsive to my company’s specific needs and conditions’ – Legal 500