AB company definition
A public limited company (publikt aktiebolag) is legally denoted as  AB (publ.)  in Sweden or  Abp  in Finland. A Swedish public limited company must have a minimum share capital of 500,000 Swedish kronor and its shares can be offered to the general public on the stock market.or a private limited company in Sweden (privat aktiebolag), the minimum share capital is 50,000 Swedish kronor. The main Swedish statutes regulating limited companies are The Companies Act (Aktiebolagslagen (ABL) 2005:551) and The Limited Companies Ordinance (Aktiebolagsfoerordningen aktiebolagsfÃ¶rordningen:2005). 559