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Maria Kosteska Fägerquist
Partner

Lawyer

Maria Kosteska Fägerquist

Chairman of Board, Gothenburg

Languages
  • English
  • Swedish
  • Serbian

Maria is co-head of the CMS Wistrand employment team, and has a practice that extends across the full range of employment law.  Maria works closely with our clients’ management and HR departments in all aspects of employment law. 
 

Maria has particular experience in assisting clients through business change, and she advises on employment aspects of business purchases and transfers, mergers and restructures. She advises clients on their full range of employment needs and advises on both contentious and non-contentious matters. She assists clients in the day-to-day management of HR issues such as agreements, recruitment issues and redundancies, policies, working conditions, work environment investigations and employment litigation relating to wrongful termination, non-compete clauses and infringement of trade secrets. Maria assists employers in all kinds of negotiations and consultations with unions. Much of her work emanates also from international companies seeking advice in Sweden. She has specific experience in labour law in the Consumer Products sector and Hotel & Leisure sector. 

Maria is also partner in CMS Wistrand Dispute Resolution team. She has more than 18 years of experience handling large and complex disputes, involving litigation and arbitration. Marias’s work often involves claims for breach of contract. She has represented clients in dispute resolution concerning a wide range of areas, such as share transactions and asset sales, real estate M&A, supply agreements, non-registered partnerships and shareholders’ agreements. She regularly advises clients across a range of industry sectors, with a particular focus on hotels & leisure and real estate. She is also specialized in advising clients on liability matters with specific focus on insurance-related disputes and professional liability matters.

Professional experience 

  • Partner, CMS Wistrand, 2015-
  • Senior Associate, Wistrand Advokatbyrå, 2010-2015
  • Law Clerk, Gothenburg District Court, 2006-2007
  • Associate, Wistrand Advokatbyrå, 2005-2010

Relevant experience

  • Represents largest actor in the hotel sector in the Nordic region. She has worked with the organisation since 2010 and continues to regularly assist it in general employment matters and also in work environment matters. 
  • Assisting various international groups on the labour law aspects in cross-border transfer
  • Assisting in world wide lay off in the food industry.
  • Setting up Whistle blowing channels in Nordic Region for a leading Swedish retail group
  • Restructuring process and following union negotiations laying down department in the construction sector
  • International group on contractual bonus arrangements.
  • Reorganization in world leading consumer product company.
  • Assisting leader in B2B ecommerce, a multichannel distributor in complex and significant work environment case.
  • Day to day HR-related assistance to fast-growing sustainability energy company that provides solar cell solutions in a wide range of issues, including HR and work environment-related matters. Litigation ongoing for ten years related to complex company law issues.
  • Disputes related to termination of lease agreements and following claims. 
  • Representing law firms and lawyers in professional liability matters
  • Representing audit firms and auditors in professional liability matters

Memberships & Roles

  • Swedish Bar Association, 2010

Awards & Rankings

  • Recommended Lawyer, Legal 500 2025: Dispute Resolution 
  • Recommended Lawyer, Legal 500 2025: Employment

Education

  • LL.M., Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law, 2005
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