About the firm: Lodline is a Swedish business law firm that advises creditors pursuing recovery, boards managing liability exposure and foreign investors dealing with Swedish counterparties. The firm works across debt recovery, board advisory and cross-border structuring, and takes on matters where the client needs a position assessed before deciding how to proceed.
Who this concerns
Lodline works with three groups of clients who share one problem: they need a Swedish counterparty, debtor or subsidiary assessed under Swedish law before deciding on the next step.
Creditors come to the firm when a Swedish debtor has stopped paying and the creditor needs to know whether recovery is realistic before spending money chasing it. Boards and directors of Swedish companies, or of foreign parents with a Swedish subsidiary, come when a liability question has moved from theoretical to specific: a supplier is threatening enforcement, a director is asking whether personal exposure exists, an auditor has flagged something in a board minute.
Foreign investors and their advisers come when a transaction, a joint venture or a distribution agreement touches Sweden and the counterparty's Swedish structure, assets or governing terms need reading correctly before signature, not after a dispute has started.
What the law says
Lodline is not an advokatbyrå and its people are not advokater. That is a deliberate structural choice, not an omission. Firms bound by the Swedish Bar Association's rules operate under a specific regime governing court representation, client confidentiality and conflicts. Lodline operates instead as a business law consultancy: advisory work, document review, recovery strategy and cross-border coordination, with court representation and formal litigation conduct handled by admitted counsel where a matter requires it.
This distinction matters practically. It defines what the firm takes on directly and what it hands to counsel with rights of audience. A creditor recovery matter that stays administrative, a board question that stays advisory, a cross-border structuring question that stays documentary: these sit inside the firm's scope under Swedish law as it currently stands. A matter that turns into contested court proceedings moves, at that point, to counsel admitted to conduct it.
How it works in practice
Recovery work for creditors
A creditor engagement usually starts with an assessment of whether a debtor's Swedish assets, structure and payment history make recovery worth pursuing, before any enforcement step is taken. The firm maps the debtor's position, checks what has already been attempted, and sets out realistic outcomes rather than best-case ones.
Board and director advisory
Boards engage the firm when a specific exposure question needs an answer: has a filing deadline been missed, does a personal guarantee survive a restructuring, does a director's conduct in the run-up to insolvency create liability. The work is advisory and documentary, built around the board's own minutes, accounts and correspondence.
Support for foreign investors and Swedish counterparties
Where a transaction, joint venture or supply relationship has a Swedish party, the firm reads the Swedish-side documents, structure and any existing disputes, and flags what a foreign counsel or investor would not otherwise see without local context: how a Swedish limited company's board liability regime differs from the investor's home jurisdiction, what a Swedish-governed contract clause actually does at enforcement, and where a counterparty's payment history already signals a recovery problem.
How matters are staffed
Work is assigned by practice area, not by seniority for its own sake. The people page sets out who covers which area; a creditor recovery matter typically runs through the recovery practice, a board liability question through the advisory practice, and a cross-border structuring matter through whichever practice matches the underlying transaction.
Working with counsel and advisers abroad
Most matters involving foreign investors also involve the investor's own counsel in their home jurisdiction. Lodline's role in that setup is the Swedish-side read, not a replacement for that counsel: the firm produces the assessment the foreign adviser needs to give their own client a complete answer.
What sits outside the firm's scope
Criminal matters, family law, and any matter that requires an advokat's rights of audience in contested court proceedings sit outside what the firm takes on directly. Those matters are referred to counsel admitted to conduct them, with the firm's own work, where relevant, feeding into that representation rather than replacing it.
Who advises creditors on recovery?
Recovery matters are handled through Maja Lindkvist, who works with creditors assessing whether a Swedish debtor's position supports pursuing payment before enforcement steps are taken.
Who advises boards on director liability?
Board and liability questions are handled through Nils Ryberg, who works with directors and boards on exposure questions arising before or during financial distress.
Does the firm work with manufacturing sector counterparties?
Yes. Cross-border manufacturing relationships are a recurring context for foreign investor work; see the manufacturing industry page for how supply and distribution risk shows up in that sector specifically.
The numbers
Lodline does not publish rate cards or fixed fee tables for advisory work, because the two things that actually drive cost, the volume of documents to review and the number of jurisdictions touched by a matter, vary too much between a single-debtor recovery question and a multi-party cross-border structuring review to make a published figure meaningful.
What can be said without a specific figure: a matter that stays within Sweden and involves one counterparty is materially narrower in scope than one involving a foreign parent, a Swedish subsidiary and a third jurisdiction's governing law. A board liability question resolved from existing minutes and accounts is narrower than one requiring reconstruction of a decision-making history. Scope is set at the assessment stage, before any fee structure is proposed, not after.
Where it usually goes wrong
The most common mismatch is a creditor or investor arriving expecting litigation representation from a firm that does not hold rights of audience. Lodline's advisory work can prepare the ground for that representation and, in many matters, remove the need for it entirely, but where a dispute is already in contested court proceedings, the client needs counsel admitted to conduct them, and Lodline says so rather than taking on work it cannot finish.
A second recurring gap: foreign investors sometimes assume that a Swedish-governed contract clause behaves the way an equivalent clause would in their home jurisdiction. It frequently does not, particularly around board liability, security interests and enforcement timing, and that gap is exactly what the firm's cross-border reading is built to close before it becomes a dispute.
A third: boards sometimes engage the firm only after a filing deadline has passed or a guarantee has already been called. The advisory work is materially more useful before that point than after it; after it, the question changes from what to do to what is left.
What to do next
This page describes what the firm covers and how matters are staffed, not what a specific situation needs. For that, the next step is an assessment of the matter itself, a short review of the documents and facts that sets out whether the position is worth pursuing and what it would take to move it forward. Start an assessment with the practice area that matches the question.
The sections above set out who covers creditor recovery, board liability and cross-border investor work, and where manufacturing-sector matters typically sit. Reading the relevant section again before the call saves time in the assessment itself.