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Christer A. Holm
Professional Biography
Christer A. Holm is a senior partner and founder of Holm Advokater AB, a former associate with Mannheimer Swartling, a partner at Delphi (for 20 years), and co-founder and senior partner of NorelidHolm AB (for 15 years). He is head of the firm’s insurance and reinsurance practice group. His specialist practice consists of insurance and reinsurance law and dispute resolution. Christer primarily assists insurers in all types of insurance-related matters, such as regulatory issues, interpreting and drafting insurance policies, claims handling, as well as all forms of dispute resolution, including litigation and arbitral proceedings.
The firm’s insurance group assists a large number of international insurance and reinsurance companies, as well as insurance brokers, on a day-to-day basis. The group’s main focus areas are financial lines matters (product liability, D&O insurance, professional liability, among others) and property.
Christer is a member of the Swedish and International Bar Associations and vice president of Insuralex, a global network of top-ranked insurance law specialist firms. He is also active in the ICC’s reference group for financial services and insurance.
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About Advokatfirman NorelidHolm
NorelidHolm is a full-service international business law firm which provides legal services covering corporate and commercial law, insurance and reinsurance, marketing law, company law, EU and competition, dispute resolution, litigation, and arbitration. The client stock comprises a vast range of Swedish and international clients, including many of the largest insurance companies in the world.
Thus, NorelidHolm is very experienced in dispute resolution, both domestic and international. The partners of NorelidHolm have more than 30 years’ experience of international business law and dispute resolution.
Commenting on the main advantages of mediation as opposed to litigation and arbitration, Christer A. Holm, partner, noted a significant lowering of legal costs and, normally, speed.
“If the concept of ADR also includes arbitration and not only mediation, it is normally quick and secret but more costly than litigation,” commented Mr. Holm. “It is sought mostly by big corporate clients, often in cross-border disputes.”
Mr. Holm has witnessed a significant increase in litigation and commercial disputes in Sweden in the last ten years, which is continuing.
“In order to stop this trend, the new law on mediation, the one-instance court procedure, and the mandatory mediation before the district courts have been introduced,” said Mr. Holm.
“The general trend is that prior to any meaningful mediation being initiated, the parties almost always initiate litigation first—this in order to try to clarify each other’s legal position. Another driving force is the existence of third-party financing of legal costs (normally by insurance cover), which is increasingly the case,” concluded Mr. Holm.
Mr. Holm has more than 30 years of experience from international litigation/arbitration/mediation, and the latter has been in increasing demand during the last ten years.
Mr. Holm represented AIG in Scandinavia for more than 25 years and handled numerous litigations and arbitrations on AIG’s behalf during “Hank” Greenberg’s leadership of AIG.
In the insurance sector, he has also represented such international players as Chubb, CNA, ACE, and Willis. He has also handled numerous cases regarding reinsurance litigation.
In the general business sector, he has represented BMW Group in Scandinavia for more than 20 years, handling many EU-competition-law-related disputes in the motor vehicle distribution and services sector.
The law firm NorelidHolm is a member of the international network Insuralex, a worldwide network of law firms that all have special knowledge and skills within the international insurance sector.
In addition to this, his partner colleague and Managing Partner of NorelidHolm, Ms. Susanna Norelid, is personally a member of the exclusive (by invitation only) lawyers’ club International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), a Chicago-based organization whose members all are international top lawyers, many with great experience from international arbitration/litigation.
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