Helena Rosén Andersson

Senior Counsel | Member of the Swedish Bar Association
Helena  Rosén Andersson

Helena Rosén Andersson is one of the leading experts in Sweden within public procurement law and has a background including Justice at the Supreme Administrative Court. She has extensive experience of court litigation in public procurement cases and assists clients at all stages in tender procedures and agreements between the public sector and suppliers. Helena is also engaged by clients in public law matters, including litigation before the administrative courts, public access to documents and secrecy, protective security legislation, constitutional law and the European Convention on Human Rights. Helena is editor and head author of the leading commentaries to the Swedish laws of public procurement and has been chair inter alia of the Swedish inquiry regarding adaptions to the AI act.

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Mentions

"Helena Rosén Andersson has a rare combination of Supreme Court-level insight and hands-on strategic advice. She is sharp, decisive and always commercially attuned." Chambers & Partners 2026

"I dare say that Helena Rosén Andersson is unique in the country in her excellence and ability to adapt her delivery to the client's needs and ability to process the results of her work. She is very flexible and quickly understands what the client is asking for." Legal 500, 2025

"Helena Rosén Andersson has a deep knowledge within the procurement area and is good at communicating her analysis." Legal 500, 2025

"The availability of the team is exceptional. Helena Rosén Andersson's expertise in public law is deep and extensive, complemented by an outstanding analytical ability." Legal 500, 2025

"Her formidable career and excellence combined with her easy-going yet incredibly precise legal advice is one of a kind and completely unique in my opinion." Chambers & Partners 2025

"Helena Rosén Andersson has a very good competence and experience in the field and a great thoroughness in the work she does." Chambers & Partners 2025

"Without Helena Rosén Andersson we wouldn't have been successful." Chambers & Partners 2025

"Helena Rosén Andersson is diligent and knowledgeable." Chambers & Partners 2025

“Helena has an outstanding ability to deliver beyond expectations.” Chambers & Partners Europe 2024

“We really appreciated her, she was quick and always available.” Chambers & Partners Europe 2024

Books

Book

Lagen om upphandling inom försörjningssektorerna, En kommentarNorstedts Juridik, 2015-, uppl. 1

Book

Lagen om offentlig upphandling, En kommentarNorstedts Juridik, 2013-, uppl. 1-3

CV

Education
  • Lund University, LL.M., 1990
  • University of London, LL.M. (EU law), 1997
Experience
  • Vinge, 2022-
  • Supreme Administrative Court, Justice, 2017-2022
  • Advokatfirman Lindahl, associate lawyer, 2008-2011 and partner 2012-2017
  • Vinge, associate lawyer, 2005-2008
  • Ministry of Justice, inquiry secretary, 2003-2005
  • Ministry of Finance, inquiry secretary and legal advisor, 1999-2003
  • Court of Appeal for Western Sweden, acting associate judge and associate judge, 1993-1999
  • Mölndals district court, law clerk, 1991-1993  
Other qualifications
  • Editor and head author of the commentaries to the Swedish laws of public procurement, Norstedts Juridik, 2013-
  • Chair of the inquiry regarding adaptions to the AI act (SOU 2025:101), 2024-2025
  • Chair of the inquiry regarding the implementation of EU acts combatting money laundering and terrorist financing (SOU 2024:58), 2022-2024
  • Second vice president of the Swedish Broadcasting Commission (GRN), 2021-2022
  • Chair of the 2019 inquiry on market surveillance (SOU 2020:49), 2019-2020.

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