Lars Fredborg was born on December 30, 1945, in Uppsala, Sweden. Uppsala is a city north of Stockholm that is home to Uppsala University, founded in 1477 and Sweden's oldest university.
His documented language skills included Swedish, English, French, and German. His education and legal career took place in Sweden.
Fredborg received a Bachelor of Laws degree from Stockholm University in 1969. The institution was founded in 1878 as Stockholms högskola and was renamed Stockholm University in 1960 after its transformation into a university.
Law graduates in Sweden of this period commonly entered the judiciary or the legal profession, the paths Fredborg subsequently followed.
After his legal education, Fredborg held two judicial posts. From 1970 to 1972 he served as a junior judge at the District Court of Västervik, a first-instance court in the Swedish judicial system.
From 1972 to 1973 he was an associate judge at the Fiscal Court of Appeal in Gothenburg. Swedish fiscal courts of appeal heard appeals in tax and administrative matters, and the Gothenburg court was one of them.
Fredborg later worked at Advokatfirman Lindahl in Stockholm, a business law firm whose history dates to 1918. At the firm his practice was described as specializing in financing, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and international taxation. The firm is credited as the company author of A Manual on Swedish International Taxation, a loose-leaf work in the field of international taxation.
Fredborg has been a member of the Swedish Bar Association since 1976. The association is the professional body of Swedish advokater, the lawyers admitted to practice before Swedish courts, and it represents the profession and its members' professional standards.
He is also a member of the International Bar Association, a global organization of bar associations and law societies, founded in 1947, that addresses legal practice and the rule of law across national jurisdictions.
