Notes on Nordic commercial law and how it plays out in practice.
An NDA's dullest line is the term. Set it too short and the contractual protection expires while the secret lives on — leaving only the statutory trade-secret floor, which is harmonised across the Nordics but covers less than people think.
A shareholders' agreement binds the owners, not the company. Put a transfer restriction in the wrong document and it has no teeth against an outside buyer — a line drawn the same way across the Nordics, by different statutory means.
Section 36 of the Swedish Contracts Act looks like an emergency exit from a bad contract. Between businesses of equal strength it rarely is — and the same sentence weighs differently in each Nordic courtroom.
Security of tenure for Swedish commercial leases is indirect: it confers no right to remain in the premises, only a right to compensation when the landlord terminates without legitimate grounds — and a two-month deadline that quietly decides who keeps the claim.
