DLA Piper Denmark

Real Estate

Nikolaj Helsinghoff Andersen specialises in construction law and project development of real estate. Furthermore, Nikolaj has experience of real-estate transactions.

Nikolaj has vast experience of construction and consultancy law and has for more than 8 years assisted various construction-industry players in drawing up and negotiating contracts concerning project development, urban development, and other complex construction contracts.

Nikolaj has been engaged in advising in the interface between public and private projects - including PPP contracts and contracts regarding strategic alliances - as well as between public procurement and project development/construction projects.

Nikolaj has extensive experience of conducting survey proceedings, performance-bond-payment proceedings as well as lawsuits and arbitration proceedings.

Furthermore, Nikolaj provides general advice on strategy and commercial law to construction-project parties, including in relation to negotiation, risk management, preservation of evidence, contract management and claims management as well as dispute resolution.

In cooperation with our procurement-law specialists, Nikolaj also assists public-sector owners in connection with tender procedures. Nikolaj is an experienced lecturer and has gained relevant lecturing experience from teaching courses to a number of construction-industry players, including several large and medium-sized construction companies as well as the City of Copenhagen and Danish Regions, where Nikolaj has taught courses on the new General Conditions (AB 18) applied within the Danish construction industry, preservation of evidence, contract and claims management, dispute resolution, etc.

At DLA Piper Denmark, Nikolaj provides in-house training on construction law for our junior attorneys and assistant attorneys.

English & Danish

Master of Law, University of Copenhagen, 2014 Admitted to the Danish Bar, 2017