About

Femern is a Denmark-based planning company that is responsible for overseeing an ambitious project that will create a tunnel to connect Denmark and Germany across the Fehmarnbelt. Involved in this unique and ground-breaking work Femern’s legal team is comprised of three lawyers, ensuring all matters related to public administrative law safety issues, legal environmental issues and all major contracts and procurements are covered to the highest standard. This wide breadth of issues aren’t the only thing the team deal with, a significant delay in the project occurred due to a dispute that saw a case filed with the Danish Complaint Board for Public Procurement about how project contracts were awarded. Thanks to the excellent contribution of the legal team, the extension of the programme and the condition precedent was upheld by the complaint board in a preliminary ruling. Utilising a three-pronged approach providing legal analysis, drafting and project leadership the team has been instrumental in achieving targets marked as high priority for the business. Most importantly, the team worked on matters related to the Construction Act which framed company activities and provided many innovative legal approaches to difficult legal questions. The team also received praise for its contribution towards the legal aspects of procurement of four major civil works contracts worth more than €2.5bn, which also included a revamp of the entire procurement process involving scrutiny from political parties backing the project.