Gallagher, a global insurance brokerage, risk management, and consulting firm, has announced the appointment of Gabriella Eriksen Wingren as Head of Transaction Solutions, Nordics within its global multidisciplinary Private Equity and M&A practice (PEMA), effective 22nd July 2026.
Based in Sweden, Eriksen will work closely with sector specialist colleagues across the multidisciplinary PEMA practice, as well as Gallagher’s Nordic risk management and insurance broking business, to ensure clients benefit from a fully integrated approach to their strategic risk needs.
Emilia Johansson will report to Eriksen, who joined Gallagher in February as a W&I insurance and M&A broker, with a background in advising private equity firms and corporate clients on strategic risk transfer solutions across diverse sectors and deal sizes.
Eriksen brings experience as a corporate and M&A lawyer to her new role. She joins Gallagher from Themis Underwriting, where she served as Head of Europe for Warranty & Indemnity (W&I) insurance, having previously worked as a Senior W&I Underwriter.
Prior to that, she was a Manager at PwC Sweden, where she advised private equity and corporate clients on structuring and executing complex transactions across multiple industries. Before that, she provided legal consultancy as part of the private capital transaction team at global private markets firm EQT.
Gallagher said Eriksen’s appointment further supports the PEMA practice’s continued focus on building client-focused expertise across the M&A solutions and wider capital advisory space, expanding its geographic footprint to stay close to client communities and strengthening regional leadership.
It follows the announcement earlier this month of a new PEMA team in Italy, including the appointment of Federica Marcabruni to a similar regional leadership role as Head of Transaction Solutions, Italy.
Alistair Lester, Gallagher CEO for Private Equity and M&A, UK & EMEA, said, “The Nordic private equity and M&A market continues to show resilience and perform strongly, with significant financial sponsor activity across multiple sectors, underlining the importance of offering transactional risk expertise and advisory in region. Gabriella brings a fantastic blend of underwriting experience and legal expertise from within the sophisticated Nordic M&A market to ensure we continue to offer clients the most effective insurance-backed solutions to unlock and maximise post-deal value creation. She will be a vital part of our client-focused PEMA team as we build out our wider M&A and capital advisory services in the Nordics.”
Jonas Bergfeldt, CEO of Gallagher in the Nordics, added, “We’re very much looking forward to welcoming Gabriella into the wider Gallagher risk management and insurance team here in the Nordics where we continue to expand our range of capabilities and expertise for the benefit of our expanding client base. Being able to offer the private capital and corporate M&A community regionally specific transactional risk expertise is another great example of how we’re always looking to diversify our range of advisory support and services.”
Eriksen said, “To be honest, I can’t wait to get started and am excited by the move to the broking side where I can work even more closely with clients. There are so many opportunities to bring together the advisory expertise and solutions from Gallagher’s PEMA practice with its wider risk and insurance business, as well as directly support the private capital and deal-making communities across the Nordic region.”
