Bech-Bruun’s EU and competition practice group works across a wide range of industry sectors, including transport, media and entertainment, energy, waste, pharmaceuticals, payment solutions, agriculture, infrastructure and retail. The group frequently acts as merger clearance counsel on significant corporate transactions, as well as handling major procurement mandates including contentious procurement proceedings. Practice head Jesper Kaltoft is an expert within competition law, EU law, merger control and public procurement issues. Experienced litigator Peter Stig Jakobsen is a go-to name for EU, competition, public procurement, contract and state aid issues. Jakobsen comes recommended for his ‘ability and competence to explain extremely complex legal matters also to people without legal background’.
Testimonials
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‘I have always been impressed by their knowledge and ingenuity. They have an in-depth knowledge of their respective areas and always offer valuable solutions to our challenges.'
‘Peter Stig Jakobsen's ability and competence to explain extremely complex legal matters also to people without legal background or competences is far beyond what I have seen with other lawyers and barristers.
'Peter Stig Jakobsen has a distinct ability to understand the business of the client and to assess when to stop and when to carry on - always having the clients objective in clear focus. ’
‘Business acumen, up to date and pragmatic approach.’
Key clients
- Scania
- City & Harbor
- KIA
- Danfoss
- I/S Vestforbrænding
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
- Elbit Systems Ltd.
- Energi Danmark A/S
- Ahlsell Group
- FK Distribution A/S
- Quooker
- Jyske Bank
- KK Wind Solutions
- VINordic
- Verisure
- Lomax
- Cowi
- Magasin du Nord (Th. Wessel & Vett)
- HAY
- Clever
- Statens Naturhistoriske Museum (Københavns Universitet)
- AEVEX Aerospace
- Boehringer
Work highlights
- Assisted I/S Vestforbrænding, Denmark’s largest waste management and energy company owned by nineteen municipalities in the Copenhagen area and Northern Zealand, in relation to the largest CCS project in Danish history.
- Assisted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark with all Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) related procurement procedures.
- Represented more than 1,000 electricity customers and wholesalers who have filed a lawsuit against Elsam (now Ørsted) with claim for damages of more than DKK 4 billion due to Elsam’s abuse of a dominant position by charging unreasonably high prices from 2003 to 2006.
