Process agent

If no board member, managing director or special signatory of your Swedish company is resident in Sweden, the board must appoint someone who is. That person receives formal service, such as court summonses, enforcement notices and Bolagsverket injunctions, and confirms receipt. They have no other authority: they cannot sign for the company, bind it, or access its affairs.

This is not a formality you can defer. Where the requirement is unmet, Bolagsverket can issue an injunction and ultimately consider whether the company should be put into liquidation. Boards typically discover this when a director moves abroad and the population register reports it.

Why appoint a legal adviser rather than an address service

What arrives at a process agent is, by definition, the serious post: litigation, enforcement, a regulator's deadline. A mailbox provider forwards it. We read it, tell you what it is, and tell you what the deadline is. Where it needs a substantive response, the lawyers at Ascend Law can act on it without you having to brief a new adviser from scratch under time pressure.

What we do

• Accept the appointment and register it with Bolagsverket
• Receive and acknowledge service on the company's behalf
• Notify your named contact the same working day, with a plain summary of what arrived
• Hold original documents securely and forward them on request

We carry out client due diligence before accepting any appointment. Receiving legal process for a company means standing between it and the Swedish courts, and we need to know who we are acting for.