Henrik Peytz (1959) is a partner with Nielsen Nørager and has more than 30 years of experience in Danish and EU competition law and general EU matters. He and his team assist Danish and international clients in all kinds of competition matters (such as merger control, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance, and state aid) and are involved in some of the largest Danish court cases in this area. The team further advises on matters involving public regulation (such as public procurement, regulation of the media, telecommunications, taxes and duties). Henrik Peytz holds an MBA with distinction from INSEAD (1991). He has extensive experience with cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union and has represented the European Commission at several occasions before the Court.
Nielsen Nørager
Henrik Peytz and Lotte Hummelshøj head up the EU and competition team at Nielsen Nørager, which is particularly well-known for its extensive track record when it comes to public procurement and state aid cases as well as representation on abuse of dominance matters. Peytz is renowned for advising public authorities and Danish and foreign businesses in strategic competition law issues and in particular in competition, public procurement, state aid and other public regulation cases.
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- 'The team has a strong customer-centric focus in their advisory services, while having in-depth knowledge in applicable rules and practices.'
- 'They have strong knowledge of the IT market - they provide excellent collaboration by gathering relevant information on cases in a very short timescale.'
- 'People involved in cases have been available with fast responses when needed and providing excellent advises within deadline.'
- 'As clients, we have witnessed a very equal treatment of all employees, no matter their status. This is not seen everywhere in other law firms.'
‘The lawyers are professionals, experienced, knowledgeable and able to quickly understand a complicated matter. The lawyers are also fast and cooperative.’
‘The team is very competent and has the ability to understand the business extremely fast.’
‘Lotte Hummelshøj is very competent and understands our needs immediately, while she also ensures consultancy on highest level helping us understand our position in detail.'
'Sebastian Asbjørn Pedersen is a very competent, empathic and hard working lawyer who provides high-level documentation in short time if needed. ’
Key clients
- Discovery
- Swedbank
- Panasonic
- Atea
- Remondis
- TT-Netværket, a mobile telecom joint venture between Telenor and Telia
- Odense Havn
- The Danish Chamber of Commerce
- FynBus, Sydtrafik and Midttrafik
- TårnbyForsyning Varme A/S and TårnbyForsyning Spildevand A/S (affiliates)
- Molslinjen A/S
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Henrik Peytz, Lotte Hummelshøj