Background
Ulf Jonsson was born on June 15, 1958. His professional formation took place in Sweden, where he studied law at Uppsala University and became associated with the Swedish legal profession.
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Jonsson earned a Bachelor of Laws degree from Uppsala University in 1982. Founded in 1477, Uppsala is the oldest university in Sweden and has long been one of the country's principal centers of legal education.
In the early 1980s, Swedish legal education combined academic study of statute and case law with the practical preparation that led to the country's legal professions, including the advokat's career in private practice.
Career
Jonsson's documented professional activity centers on Mannheimer & Zetterlöf, a Swedish law firm in which he served as a partner. The firm was founded in 1943 in Gothenburg by Love Mannheimer and Tage Zetterlöf, with the aim of building a modern practice that could develop its associates into partners. It opened its first overseas office in Rotterdam in 1971 and later expanded to New York in 1983 and Frankfurt in 1989.
The firm's Swedish roots also included a Stockholm practice descended from a law office founded in 1875 by Ossian Wallin, which by the 1950s was known as Wetter & Swartling and had become one of the larger business law firms in Stockholm. Mannheimer & Zetterlöf and Carl Swartling Advokatbyrå formally merged on July 1, 1990, creating a firm of approximately 90 lawyers that became Mannheimer Swartling.
Because the firm operated under the name Mannheimer & Zetterlöf until that merger, Jonsson's partnership in the firm falls within the period before July 1990.
Membership
Jonsson is a member of the Swedish Bar Association, the national professional body of Swedish advokater, the lawyers who are admitted to practise before Swedish courts and are subject to the profession's rules of conduct.
