DLA Piper LLP (US)

Litigation & Regulatory

Henrik Frandsen is partner in DLA Piper Denmark Law Firm.

Henrik has many years of experience as legal counsel in the shipping, transport and logistics sectors, particularly in relation to maritime law and logistics.

He is admitted to the Supreme Court and has extensive litigation experience (court and international arbitration matters) and is the preferred legal counsel for several shipping companies and freight forwarders. On a regular basis, Henrik acts a legal counsel to shippers, receivers of goods or other parties involved in commercial trade in disputes concerning container demurrage, freight contracts, etc.

Henrik provides quick, solid and no-frills advice to shipping lines, freight forwarders, and port-related companies on all legal aspects of shipping, transport, and international trade, including the sale and purchase of vessels, commercial contracts, arrest of vessels etc.

Additionally, Henrik advises Danish commercial ports on various issues related to operations, lease agreements and other contracts, crane regulation, and damage to quay and installations cause by collision etc.

Henrik is also assisting the Association of Marinas in Denmark and several Danish marinas with the removal and sale of abandoned yachts, payment collection and other legal issues related to the operation of a marina.

Henrik has a solid commercial understanding and strategic insight with a broad network with foreign clients and lawyers.

Henrik has been teaching in maritime law and shipping for almost 20 years at Aarhus Business College.

Danish, English, German

Committee Maritime International Shiparrested.com

University of Oslo, Nordic Institute of Maritime Law, Graduate Program in International Maritime Law (1999) University of Copenhagen, Master of Law (1994 – 2000)