Compliance and disclaimer

What we are

Lodline AB is a law firm registered in Sweden. It is not an advokatbyrå, and no one at the firm holds the protected professional title advokat.

For most readers outside Sweden this needs explaining rather than merely stating, because the arrangement has no direct equivalent in most jurisdictions.

The Swedish position

In most countries the right to give legal advice is reserved to a regulated profession. In Sweden it is not. Chapter 8 of the Code of Judicial Procedure protects the title advokat — using it without admission to the Bar is a criminal offence — but it does not reserve the activity.

Anyone may set up a law firm in Sweden and advise clients. Anyone may act as ombud — representative — before the district courts and the courts of appeal. The only function genuinely reserved is appointment as public defender in criminal proceedings, which is irrelevant to business matters.

So the firm may advise, negotiate, represent in litigation and arbitration, and deal with authorities. It simply may not call itself something it is not.

What follows, and what does not

What does not follow. No limitation on the work: transactions, disputes, insolvency, regulatory matters and arbitration are all open. No limitation on representing you in court.

What does follow. The professional privilege attaching to the role of advokat — advokatsekretess — does not apply to this firm. Confidentiality here is contractual, undertaken in the engagement letter and enforceable as a contractual obligation, but it is not the same instrument.

In most commercial work this makes no practical difference. In some matters it does: internal investigations, anything with a realistic prospect of a dawn raid, matters running alongside a criminal investigation. Where privilege matters, we say so before the engagement begins and arrange for an external advokat to act as co-adviser. We do not discover this halfway through.

Reports

The factual reports offered on this site are not legal services and are not sold as such.

They contain no legal assessment. They also contain no assessment of creditworthiness, ability to pay or probability of payment — under the Credit Information Act (1973:1173) that is regulated activity requiring a permit from the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection, and this firm does not carry it on.

What a report states: what is recorded, in which register, as at which date, obtained by which route — and, explicitly, what could not be established and why. Where a layer of data cannot lawfully be obtained, that is said in the report rather than filled by inference.

Professional liability

Covered by insurance. Details on request and stated in the engagement letter.

Publications

Material in the library is general information, not advice on your situation. Every page shows both when it was published and when it was last checked.