Real estate, energy and infrastructure work in Sweden turns on getting the ground right before the money is committed: land access, permits, grid connection and the allocation of construction risk. Lodline advises developers, owners, lenders and contractors across the life of a project, from the first title check to a construction or environmental dispute, with defined pieces of work offered at a fixed price.
Who this concerns
This concerns developers routing cable or pipe across land they do not own, owners and funds acquiring built assets, grid and district-heating operators, EPC contractors and the clients who commission them, and lenders whose security depends on an access right or a permit surviving a change of ownership. It also concerns foreign investors stepping into Swedish projects through a share deal, where older instruments were rarely drafted for a change of control.
What the practice covers
The practice covers land access and easements, title and the land register, environmental permits and their conditions, grid connection and capacity, contaminated-land liability, construction defects and commercial leases. Under Swedish law as it currently stands, physical entry and committed works are hard to unwind once begun, so confirming the legal basis before the first piece of equipment arrives is the single most valuable step in the sequence.
Where a matter has an international element, a foreign counterparty, assets abroad or a parent company outside Sweden, that is addressed as part of the work rather than treated as a separate question. Related risk often sits in the disputes and arbitration practice, which runs alongside this one.
How a matter runs
A matter runs through a set sequence: a preliminary assessment of the position, a defined scope of work with a fixed price where the piece of work allows it, the work itself, and a clear hand-back of what was decided and what remains open. The firm is a Swedish law firm; it is not an advokatbyrå and makes no promise as to the outcome. Response to an enquiry is within two hours on a working day.
What the library covers
The insights below answer the questions that come up before a matter starts. Read them in any order; each sets out what to do first and where self-help ends.
- Land access and easements
- Environmental permits and their conditions
- Grid connection and capacity disputes
- Construction defects and the client's remedies
- Contaminated land and liability
- Commercial lease disputes
Where it usually goes wrong
A project team can do a great deal itself: pull the property extract, match the corridor to the right instrument, document the condition of the land and reconcile the permit against the works actually planned. It stops being a desk exercise the moment a landowner disputes the route, an authority reduces a permit, or defects surface after handover. That is where a defined scope of work, including a fixed-price construction dispute review, earns its place.