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universadvokater.com

Your partner for legal advice in Denmark. - And outside of.

Vi har ...

  • inddrevet et par tusinde kroner i Sverige
  • ført sag ved ICC International Court of Arbitration i Paris mod en mellemøstlig stat for næsten en milliard kroner
  • bistået med GDPR-compliance i små 30 lande
  • hjulpet et hav af internationale klienter med udfordringer i Danmark
  • arbejdet med kontrakter vedrørende Bahrains nationale museum, artefakter fra Egyptens pyramider og med Iraks Nimrod-guld
  • håndplukket de helt rigtige lokale advokater til klienter, der opererer i fx Thailand, Panama og Spanien.

og udført tusinder af andre internationale opgaver.

Så mon ikke vi også kan hjælpe jer, når I har brug for juridisk hjælp på tværs af grænserne ...

International network


universadvokater has global relationships facilitating highly effective multi-jurisdictional work.

universadvokater's partners have several decades of experience in international practice covering the full spectrum from day-to-day cross border business to multi-million dollar projects and dispute resolution.

universadvokater has a unique and close personal network of lawyers in excellent law firms throughout the world.


Vi rådgiver danske virksomheder vedrørende deres internationale forretninger - og omvendt.

Who we are

Working nationally and internationally from our bases in the cities of Aarhus and Svendborg we provide the full range of legal services that our clients and partners across the world need.

Business advisory

We have the expertise to assist clients at every stage of setting up, running and developing their business.

Whatever stage of growth your business is at, and whatever stage of the commercial process you are at, we can assist with commercially focused legal advice and guidance that will help you maximize potential.

Our business advisory team can advise and support you with:

  • Commercial contracts
  • IP/IT issues
  • Data protection and privacy law
  • Consumer protection issues for digital sales B2C
  • Employment law and posting of workers
  • International recruitment issues
  • Commercial litigation and arbitration
  • Debt recovery

Commercial real estate

Our experience in the real estate sector helps us to understand every angle of complex real estate transactions, and we provide practical and efficient solutions to complex real estate problems. Whatever your financial and commercial objectives, we provide advice that is tailor made to help you achieve them.

Our commercial real estate team can advise and support you with:

  • Acquisitions and sales
  • Asset management
  • Leases
  • Property litigation
  • Development and construction
  • Planning law
  • Environmental issues

Corporate

We advise businesses of all sizes and whether it’s a question of buying or selling company assets, setting up or acquiring a new subsidiary or corporate governance. We provide strategic and commercially focused advice to assist you manage your transactions efficiently and quickly.

Our approach is both pragmatic and innovative. We use our experience as well as our creativity to provide strategic advice which will help you find practical solutions to your corporate challenges and assist you to achieve your objectives.

Our corporate team can advise and support you with:

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Due diligence
  • Corporate restructuring
  • Private equity transactions
  • General corporate advisory
  • Company secretarial work.

Private client


We are always happy to have a preliminary discussion at no charge.

If you need Danish legal advice on a family law or private matter, our team will be happy to assist you and ensure that you receive the support and guidance you need.

Send an email to mail@universadvokater.dk with a short description of the matter you would like advice about, and one of our private client team will give you a call. We are always happy to have a preliminary discussion at no charge. 

Our team can advise and support you with:

  • Wills and inheritance matters
  • Family law, including nuptial agreements
  • Division of assets
  • Danish summerhouse law and recreational use compliance
  • Conveyancing.

LEGAL NOTICE

Please click here to go to our Legal Notice page.

The Legal Notice page is in the Danish language, but you may use the translation tool on the page's top menu to translate the page into a language of your own choice.

Please note that translations may be inaccurate. In case of any difference in meaning between the Danish language original version and any translation thereof, the Danish language original version shall be applicable.

Dispute Resolution

At universadvokater we work to prevent and resolve many different types of disputes though pragmatic and strategic legal advice that focuses on our clients’ objectives.

We offer a wide range of dispute resolution services and are experienced in assisting our clients with negotiations, mediations, arbitration, litigation, and multi-party proceedings as well as appellate proceedings in many different areas of the law, such as commercial property disputes, construction disputes, corporate & shareholder disputes, debt recovery, employment disputes (including claims of discrimination), intellectual property disputes and IT disputes.

We represent clients in regulatory inquiries and enforcement proceedings as well as related civil disputes and litigation. We are also experienced in advising clients on the wider risk and public relations issues that are often involved in commercial disputes.

Privacy and information security


We advise clients operating across a broad range of sectors including tourism, technology, energy, construction, commercial real estate and entertainment services on the whole spectrum of legal and regulatory issues related to data protection, information security and privacy.

Our team can advise and support you with:

  • Drafting data protection policies, including incident response policies.
  • Navigating the restrictions on collection and use of consumer information.
  • Consumer engagement activities such as marketing and advertising
  • Training on how to handle a data breach, and assistance with actual data incidents and breaches.
  • Regulatory compliance advice including compliance assessment and remediation.

Employment and Human Resources

Whatever the size of your business it is more than likely that you will encounter HR related challenges along the way and will appreciate commercially focused advice and sparring on how best to tackle them.

We can provide you with pragmatic, business-oriented advice and assist with all manner of employment law related queries, such as:

  • Contracts including employment contracts, director contracts and consultancy agreements
  • Employee incentives
  • Change management including workforce reduction, collective redundancies, changes to existing terms and conditions and exit negotiations for senior employees
  • Diversity and equality issues
  • Confidentiality issues including restrictive covenants and business protection
  • Sick leave issues including assistance with the Danish 120 day rule
  • Working environment rules and requirements
  • International recruitment including posting workers internationally and hiring foreign workers into Denmark
  • Discrimination cases
  • Dismissals

Intellectual property

Creating and protecting the intellectual property of your business is often fundamental to creating and protecting your competitive edge. We advise businesses of all shapes and sizes about their intellectual property, and we take care to tailor our thinking and assistance to each particular business and each particular challenge.

Our team can advise and support you with:

  • Strategies for IP protection
  • Intellectual property registrations
  • Marketing law
  • Competition law
  • Protecting trade secrets
  • Domain name issues
  • Intellectual Property disputes
  • Negotiating and drafting agreements, such as licence agreements, transfer agreements, joint venture agreements, distribution agreements and IT contracts.

Can foreigners buy a holiday home in Denmark?

Not usually is the short answer!

As a general rule, it is not possible for foreigners to buy a holiday home in Denmark, and this applies regardless of whether you are an EU-citizen or not.

However, special permission can be obtained from the Ministry of Justice if the applicant has a particularly strong affiliation with Denmark. When assessing the applicants affiliation with Denmark, the Ministry of Justice will look at any prior periods of residence in Denmark, and any special family, business, cultural or economic connection to Denmark, as well as any special connection that the applicant has to the property that they wish to acquire.



Can foreigners buy a houseboat in Denmark?

Whilst several restrictions apply to foreigners' purchases of real estate (including holiday homes) in Denmark, the same restrictions do not apply to the purchase of houseboats.

As a general rule, EU citizens are able to buy a houseboat in Denmark and use it as a holiday home. However, as always when buying a home, there are many factors that should be investigated before signing the purchase agreement.

We advise you to reserve the right to consult a Danish lawyer before finalising a purchase agreement (tage advokatforbehold).


Aarhus - City of Smiles

The British Institute for Quality of Life has just named Aarhus as the city with the happiest inhabitants in the world. Helsinki ranks 8th.

In 2023, the UN report World Happiness Report named Finland as the country with the worlds happiest citizens, while Denmark came in second.

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Jørgen Pedersen
Advokat (H), partner (Attorney)
Gitte Nedergaard
Advokat (H), partner (Attorney)
Claus Olsen
Advokat (H), partner
David Kjær Hermansen
Advokat (Attorney)
Andreas Peter Olesen
Advokat (Attorney)
Alexander Hoyer Olsen
Advokatfuldmægtig
Alexander Møller-Heuer
Advokatfuldmægtig
Sara Nielsen
Socialrådgiver, cand.soc.
Puk Hedegaard
Juridisk sagsbehandler
Gitte Meyer
Secretary
Lisbet Lüthi Schultz
Juridisk sagsbehandler
Birgitte Hegaard Højer
Juridisk sagsbehandler
Carina Bjerre Christensen
Juridisk sagsbehandler
Camilla Hvergel
Receptionist
Pia Bidstrup
Chief accountant
Kathrine Pilgaard Dolberg
Studentermedarbejder
Søren Hartmann
Advokatstuderende (stud.jur.)
Alvin Lee Kuiper
IT-supporter
Simon Trier
Advokatstuderende (stud.jur.)
Janni Føste Andersen
Advokatfuldmægtig
Mille Stick
Advokatstuderende (stud.jur.)
Johannes Rygaard Kusk
Advokatstuderende
Alexander Jakobsen
Advokatstuderende
Nicoline Marie Holdt-Simonsen
Advokatstuderende (stud.jur.)
Joachim Hoyer Olsen
Advokatfuldmægtig
Jonathan Larsen
Studentermedarbejder
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