Named on Elin Nordegren’s legal team and photographed throughout the scandal, Josefin Lรถnnborg has not spoken publicly about any part of it in the fifteen years since.
In June 2009, Josefin Nordegren married a Swedish finance professional named Daniel Lรถnnborg at a private ceremony in Sweden. Her twin sister was there. Elin’s two-year-old daughter served as the page. Six months later, that same twin’s marriage to Tiger Woods collapsed into one of the most covered stories in sport that decade. Josefin was named on the legal team that handled the divorce, photographed by mistake on a French ski slope under her sister’s name, and present throughout the months that followed. She has not spoken about any of it publicly.
Josefin Nordegren, now known professionally as Josefin Lรถnnborg after her 2009 marriage, is a Swedish corporate lawyer born on January 1, 1980 in Stockholm. She is the identical twin sister of Elin Nordegren, the former Swedish model who was married to golfer Tiger Woods from 2004 until their divorce in 2010. She currently works as a Partner at Spencer Legal, a boutique law firm in Putney, London, where she handles mergers and acquisitions, investment transactions, and aviation law.
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The Nordegren Family
Josefin grew up in Vaxholm, in the Stockholm Archipelago, alongside her twin sister and their older brother Axel, who is thirteen months their senior.
Their father, Thomas Nordegren, spent his career at Sveriges Radio as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief, with postings across Helsinki, Brussels, Berlin, and Washington D.C. Their mother, Barbro Holmberg, is a Social Democratic politician who served as Sweden’s Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy from 2003 to 2006, and later as Governor of Gรคvleborg County from 2008 to 2015.
Both parents had direct experience with public life, and both of them worked deliberately to make sure their daughters did not merge into a single identity simply because they shared a face. Elin wore red. Josefin wore blue. Different haircuts. Different classrooms from the beginning.
Speaking to People magazine in 2010, Elin said:
“They rarely dressed us in the same clothes, and if they did, I always wore red and my sister always wore blue so no one would say the wrong name. My sister has been my best friend since the day we were born, and she is more than a best friend today.”
In 1997, both twins followed their father to Germany for a year, attending the John F. Kennedy School in Berlin while he was posted there as a correspondent. They also worked summer jobs as supermarket cashiers to fund their university studies.
Education and Legal Career
Josefin and Elin both enrolled at Lund University, one of Sweden’s most selective institutions, where Josefin studied law. She then moved to London and completed a Master of Laws at the London School of Economics. She was first admitted to legal practice in 2005.
Before joining McGuireWoods, she had worked at two other law firms across Stockholm and London. McGuireWoods entered the London market in May 2009 through a merger with City boutique Grundberg Mocatta Rakison, and Josefin was working at the firm as a corporate associate when the Tiger Woods case reached the team later that year.
Her practice at McGuireWoods covered:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- International transactions
- Securities and corporate finance
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Syndicated finance
She holds licences to practise in both England and Sweden and is bilingual in English and Swedish. Her work extended well beyond the Nordegren name. A 2013 McGuireWoods press release confirmed she was part of the deal team advising TEOCO on its acquisition of AIRCOM, an international technology M&A transaction run from the London office.
The Tiger Woods Divorce
When the official separation of Elin Nordegren and Tiger Woods was filed in Bay County Circuit Court, Florida, on August 23, 2010, the statement named Josefin Lonnborg as part of Elin’s legal representation, alongside US colleagues from McGuireWoods.
Law.com International, reporting directly on the case, confirmed that the firm’s connection to Elin Nordegren ran through Josefin, who was then a corporate associate at the London office. Above the Law noted at the time that her qualifications stood independently of the family connection: an LLM from the London School of Economics, dual-jurisdiction licensing, and several years of transactional work across international markets.
The divorce settlement was reported at $100 million. Legal trade publications covered the case partly because of the unusual situation of a corporate London lawyer appearing in a Florida family law proceeding. The explanation, once reported, was simple. Josefin was her sister.
She has not spoken about her involvement in the case.
Chamonix, January 2010
In early January 2010, Josefin organised a skiing trip to Chamonix, France, with her husband and a group of friends. Her twin sister was invited at short notice and joined the group. Photographers were at the resort expecting to find Elin Nordegren.
On January 2, images of a woman on the slopes began circulating. Dozens of outlets published them under Elin’s name. The Daily Beast later identified the woman as Josefin Lรถnnborg. She was wearing her wedding ring and was photographed standing next to her husband. The misidentification ran uncorrected across most outlets. Josefin made no public statement.
Where Is Josefin Nordegren Now?
Josefin Lรถnnborg is currently a Partner at Spencer Legal, based at 13 Spencer Walk, Putney, London SW15 1PL. The firm’s website loads through the domain lonnborgbjarnram.com, a detail that signals her involvement in the firm’s founding alongside partners Christian Bjรคrnram and Dr. Carl Bjรคrnram.
Spencer Legal describes itself as a boutique for investors and growth companies, with work across three main areas:
- Mergers and acquisitions, with a focus on small and mid-sized transactions
- Investment and start-up financing, from founding rounds through to exit
- Aviation law, covering aircraft leases, sale-leasebacks, and export credit transactions
The firm notes it has lawyers who are native Swedish and Scandinavian speakers, positioned specifically for deals involving Nordic clients and markets. It is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority under SRA ID 615475, and registered in England and Wales under company number 9079492.
The move from a major international firm to a specialist boutique where she holds a named founding partnership represents a significant progression. Her bilingual practice and Scandinavian market knowledge are central to the firm she helped build.
Her husband Daniel Lรถnnborg has worked at Barclays Capital in London. The couple have at least one child together, confirmed in a public sighting in 2013.
Josefin Nordegren was raised in a household where the separation between the twins was not left to chance. Different colours, different haircuts, different classrooms. The reasoning was direct: two children who looked alike were going to be raised as two individuals.
The result was two careers built in entirely different directions. Elin became a public figure by association, then by circumstance. Josefin became a corporate lawyer in London, working across Stockholm, the City, and eventually her own firm in Putney.
When December 2009 arrived and the Tiger Woods story broke, Josefin was named on the legal team, photographed at a French ski resort under the wrong name, and present throughout the period that followed. She handled what she handled, then went back to work. Fifteen years later, she is a partner at a law firm in southwest London, and the public record about those two years contains nothing from her.
Whatever she knows, she has kept it that way.
