Håkan heads up S&W’s Customs & Excise Practice and specialises in mitigating customs and excise compliance risks and identifying duty savings. He has 25+ years’ working experience in the field of International Trade Compliance, first in industry and later in practice.

Håkan is Swedish and trilingual, having worked in Sweden and the Netherlands for 15 years before moving to the UK in 2010.

Prior to moving into practice, Håkan held positions as in-house advisor at the headquarters of global corporations such as Diageo, GE Healthcare, Laird Technologies, Philips Medical Systems and Cisco Systems.

Anna Jerzewska is Managing Director and Founder of Trade & Borders. Customs rapporteur for EuroCommerce. Member of the Windsor Framework Independent Monitoring Panel. With +20 years of experience, Anna advises government departments, international organisations and private sector clients on customs and international trade in London, Brussels and Geneva and is a recognised commentator.

Lisa O'Carroll senior correspondent at the Guardian covering international trade from a European perspective. Spent seven years covering Brexit from the referendum through to post Brexit 2023 and then went to Brussels for a year and then on to her home country Ireland, to report on issues including maritime security, neutrality and migration. Now based in London. 

Megan Shaw is the Head of International Customs and Border Engagement in His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. She is responsible for the United Kingdom’s international strategy for customs, by collaborating with partners to develop, champion and secure commitments to fast and efficient border processes in order to facilitate legitimate global trade. She leads the UK’s international customs capacity building programme, in support of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement and represents the UK at the WCO. She co-chairs with the European Commission the annual committee on customs and origin in support of the implementation of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement.

Megan has worked in the UK Government for over 20 years, primarily on tax-related matters, but she also brings a breadth of customs policy experience, including on the administration of tariffs, classification, valuation and rules of origin, and she led the reform of the UK’s facilitations following EU Exit.

Daniel has been with PostNord International for 3 years as Sales Director driving forward the sales and marketing strategy for PostNord International in the UK focusing in on our Nordic solutions by enabling a fully customs cleared solution into the Nordic region (Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway) which my team and I actively promote to retailers for Ex-UK and Cross border volumes.

Prior to this I worked for DHL Express for 26 years in a variety of roles starting in Operations before spending the last 18 years in commercial sales roles varying from Key Account Management to Sales Management to laterally regional Sales Director roles.

I am passionate about people management but also about the logistics sector in general focusing my energy on supporting businesses in making trade and growing their business as simple as possible within the current turbulent global trading picture.

Johanna Asplund is an associate at the Firm’s London office in the International, Commercial and Trade Practice Group. She completed her degree in International Relations from London School of Economics then a Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course (LLM) from BPP University in 2019.

Johanna advises clients on sanctions, export controls, trade compliance, customs and anti-bribery matters. She has advised extensively on sanctions and export control licensing and enforcement, including investigations and enforcement matters before government authorities, in particular in the healthcare and life sciences sector. Johanna regularly advises on compliance risk assessments, compliance policies and procedures, and internal investigations.