Bird & Bird LLP

Tech & Comms

Martin is a partner in Bird & Bird's Danish International Tech & Comms Group. Widely regarded as one of Denmark's leading IT lawyers, he combines solid legal skills, innovative thought leadership and real strategic IT industry expertise.

Martin spent around 20 years advising Danish and international organisations, including major blue-chips, across the full spectrum of IT-related legal and commercial matters. He has gained a reputation as a pioneer in all legal aspects of online technology solutions (ecommerce, internet and web services), cyber and IT security, open source and open data, and other open licence forms such as Creative Commons.

A lot of Martin's work is in emergent areas and industries such as 3D printing, robotics, smart networks and smart cities, wearable tech, IoT, fintech, and Bitcoin and blockchain technologies.

He also advises technology start-ups and SMEs in the IT and media sectors on fundraising, M&A and transactions, corporate matters and more general commercial contracts.

Martin is a co-founder of the Danish E-commerce Association (FDIH), Internet Society DK, Creative Commons DK, the Danish Open Source Vendors Association and Danish Entrepreneurs Association, Quantified Self DK, OpenDenmark, HyperLedger and the Ethereum/Web3 Copenhagen meetups and the tech start-up community CPHFTW.

Martin is a certified IT attorney (certified by the Association of Danish IT Attorneys), and has also been admitted to the Danish High Court.

Martin co-authored the first thesis on Danish Internet Law, and I'm a frequent speaker at conferences on IT law, tech startups, blockchain tech, ecommerce and open source and Creative Commons.

Martin speaks Danish and English, and understand the Scandinavian languages.

University of Copenhagen, Master of Law, Law Danish Bar Association in 1991