Flood Herslow Holme Advokatbyrå AB

The firm: Flood Herslow Holme offers legal services in most commercial law practice areas. Our client relationships are based on a long-term perspective and our clients are primarily owners of businesses and assets representing significant values. We always endeavour to gain an overall perspective and then to find the best solution, adapted to the specific needs of our clients.

Flood Herslow Holme is a modern commercial law firm with 29 employees, 24 of whom are lawyers. With the exception of insolvency law, which is only practiced at our Stockholm office, our offices in Stockholm and Malmo offer services within all of the firm’s practice areas. The firm’s lawyers and staff work with their colleagues in the other office on a daily basis, allowing us to handle larger matters despite the fact that we are a relatively small firm as compared with the major commercial law firms. In order to guarantee our clients the best possible advice and highest quality services, each matter is regarded as being handled by the entire firm.

Our clients include investment companies, private equity firms, private individuals, landowners and entrepreneurs. We also represent listed and unlisted companies, as well as a number of public authorities. By handling all of a client’s legal issues on a long-term basis, we obtain a deeper insight into their business. Such close cooperation places high demands on our advice, our availability and our integrity. This is something we strive to achieve in each individual matter.

Ethics and regulatory compliance are of the utmost importance to the firm and its personnel. It is not possible to provide highly qualified legal advice if you deviate from these principles. Compliance with the often unwritten rules found in the business community, which are often referred to as business ethics, is also something we at the firm place great emphasis on.

We have a duty of confidentiality and are extremely committed to security. For more information about how we work, how we handle personal data, and how we protect the integrity of our clients, please see our General Terms and Conditions.

Areas of practice
Company law: this practice area intersects with all of the firm’s practice areas and plays an important role in our clients’ day-to-day operations, for example in matters relating to the establishment of subsidiaries, shareholder meetings, mergers, acquisition of capital, capital protection, protection of minority shareholders, and CEO and director liability. We have expertise in all types of company law advice for boards of directors, corporate management and shareholders. For listed companies, questions arise in which consideration must be given to both company law as well as securities market law and generally accepted practices. We also have solid expertise in the law of foundations and assist our clients regularly with these types of matters.

Corporate commercial: based on our experience from a number of different industries and the public sector, we advise and help our clients in matters such as reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial agreements. We also provide day-to-day legal advice to companies and public authorities. We have experts within national and international contract law, sales of goods law, employment law and related legislation such as discrimination and work environment, administrative law, landlord-tenant law, real property law, IT law and transportation law. We have a great deal of experience in various industry-specific agreements and provide advice in conjunction with outsourcing of operations and functions to both companies and public authorities. We also handle contract structures for various forms of distribution and related questions such as competition and intellectual property law. We also assist our clients in finding processes and policies which address the handling of personal data under the applicable regulatory framework. The work carried out within this area also includes examinations and audits on behalf of public authorities and companies related to one or many of the above areas but especially related to work place issues.

Dispute resolution: our practice includes litigation and arbitration in the areas of law in which we practice, and we also serve as arbitrators in, for example, share redemption disputes, commercial agreements, and shares purchase or business purchase agreements. We frequently represent both bidders and procuring entities in proceedings and have done so in a large number of disputes before Swedish courts in relation to reviews of public procurements and damages caused by violation of public procurement law. However, since disputes (whether in the form of litigation or arbitration) can be both expensive and protracted, we always carefully evaluate the details of your matter before commencing legal proceedings.

Insolvency: we provide advice when a business finds itself in a crisis, or wishes to avoid finding itself in financial straits. Since our insolvency law experts are also proficient in other legal areas and various industries, they are able to evaluate the situation from a broad perspective. We are regularly engaged as administrators tasked with turning around failing companies and facilitating a profitable future, and as bankruptcy trustees tasked with winding up a company’s business in an orderly fashion.

M&A: mergers and acquisitions are often complex and impose exacting demands on us, as advisors. A number of our lawyers regularly represent sellers, buyers, and their financiers in various types of public or private corporate transactions. Among other things, we handle issues such as due diligence procedures, tender processes and contract negotiations, financing, new share issues and IPOs, as well as the drafting of relevant legal documents, implementation and relevant company law matters.

Private legal: for over 40 years, we have been advising businesses owner families on issues such as family law, tax law, and real property law. We add value for the owners and their businesses and, based on the needs of the individual and the family, we assume responsibility for the totality of their legal requirements. As a result, our advice encompasses a number of legal areas and we can also access the national and international network of banks, lawyers, and accountants that we have built up over the years.

Public procurement: we frequently give legal advice in relation to public procurement issues. We have long and considerable experience advising both suppliers and procuring entities. For example, we assist during negotiations and in relation to public and private partnerships which can pertain to both Swedish law and EU law. Regarding bids by suppliers, we also review the invitations to tender and draft questions to the procuring entity. We also review the bid in order to ensure all mandatory requirements have been fulfilled. In cases where we advise the procuring entities, advice is also provided in relation to all phases of the procurement. This includes formulating qualification and evaluation criteria and to provide quality assurance of the procurement from a legal perspective or to analyze and assess whether changes to procured contracts are allowed according to applicable law. We frequently represent both bidders and procuring entities in proceedings and have done so in a large number of disputes before Swedish courts in relation to reviews of public procurements and damages caused by violation of public procurement law.