Vincent Gedeon
Vincent is an Associate in Setterwalls Advokatbyrå’s EU & Competition Group, advising Swedish and international clients on EU, competition, and foreign investment law. Vincent is also part of the firm’s Dispute Resolution Group, working mainly as an arbitrator in major infrastructure and renewable energy projects.
Vincent has previous experience from Brussels where he worked at a Magic Circle firm and the Swedish top tier firm. The work in Brussels mainly consisted of national and multi-jurisdictional transaction notifications under merger and investment control regimes, as well as litigating EU cartel investigations and state aid cases in against the European Commission.
Vincent works in Swedish, English and German.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2025
Experience
- Embassy of Sweden to Germany, Berlin (2018 - 2020)
- Mannheimer Swartling, Brussels (2021 - 2022)
- Linklaters LLP, Brussels (2022 - 2022)
Qualifications
- LL.M. (2021)
- LL.B. (2016)
Education
- Faculty of Law, Lund University (2021)
1 Contributions by Vincent Gedeon
PRACTICE NOTES
Sweden’s foreign investment screening and security-sensitive transfers: FDI Regulation 2023 and Protective Security Act - scope, triggers, process, penalties, and merger control interaction
1. What is the applicable legislation?
Sweden operates two principal investment control frameworks. The Swedish FDI Regulation (the FDI Regulation), effective from 1 December 2023, is the primary scheme governing foreign direct investment in Sweden. Its protective remit is Sweden’s security and public order or public safety in Sweden, capturing any undertaking whose operations need safeguarding to maintain that security, order or safety. The Protective Security Act (the PSA), in force since 1996, is narrower than the FDI Regulation and targets only deals involving businesses that carry out security-sensitive activities. The PSA’s protected interest is Sweden’s security, covering activities that are significant for Sweden’s security or that fall under an international protective security commitment binding on Sweden. The FDI Regulation and the PSA partially overlap in scope. Both extend to security-sensitive activities and, to differing extents, essential services. However, the PSA is confined to activities that matter for Sweden’s security, while the FDI Regulation casts a wider net by also encompassing activities relevant to public order and public security in Sweden...
Competition
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