Gorrissen Federspiel
Gorrissen Federspiel has a long-standing reputation for representing enterprises domiciled in or with activities in Greenland and has established in-depth knowledge of the special circumstances that apply to doing business in Greenland. The group's client roster spans Greenland’s main industries encompassing the energy, mining, infrastructure, shipping, transport and fishing sectors, and the team regularly assists Greenlandic clients with corporate and asset finance work, compliance issues, and real estate matters. Michael Meyer, who ‘has a unique overview of Danish and Greenlandic law, especially within competition law’, is head of the Greenland desk, which also leverages the expertise of banking and finance expert Thomas Maaberg Hansen, shipping specialist Peter Appel, and Morten Hans Jakobsen, who focuses on transport finance mandates. The team’s strategic cooperation with Nuuk-based law firm Arctic Law Greenland ApS combines the firm’s corporate expertise with regional capabilities.
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- ‘Gorrissen Federspiel has my highest recommendations. It's a company consisting of extreme specialists within every legal aspect in Denmark. Their attorneys are capable of consuming large amount of complex material and making it understandable to their clients.’
‘Michael Meyer has a unique overview of Danish and Greenlandic law especially within competition law.'
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Key clients
- Air Greenland
- GCAM LP
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Work highlights
- Acted for Royal Arctic Line as respondent in a claim from a shipper, Usisaat ApS regarding damage on goods in a container in a Greenlandic port due to water ingress.
- Advised Polar Seafood Greenland on successfully assisting a wreck removal order in respect of the sinking of Polar Aassik in western Greenland in 2021.
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