In one and the same week

Good news for the rule of law – 21 dropped charges and 1 acquittal on EU law in the same week The purpose of our intensified effort is to reduce the number of blemishes on the criminal records of farmers and related business operators. Not just reduce the fines. There are indications that we are […]

New Partner at Sønderby Legal

Sønderby Legal welcomes a new partner to the Copenhagen office, Attorney Casper Vinther. We look forward to the collaboration and to expanding our expertise within commercial law. “With areas of expertise such as procedural law, general business consulting, including in particular company law and construction law – and as an extension of this, considerable experience […]

The Trade Secrets Directive must be taken seriously.

THE TRADE SECRETS DIRECTIVE MUST BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY – ALSO IN DENMARK 1 year in prison. It had major consequences for an employee to obtain information about the company’s trade secrets and to copy this information to their own email. The circumstances were that shortly before a self-chosen resignation, it turned out that an employee […]

Charging a waiting time fee was unlawful

It was in violation of the rules for charging fees when the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (Fødevarestyrelsen) sent an invoice in October 2023 in connection with a control visit to an assembly center. During the visit, where everything else was found to be in order, the official veterinarian had to wait for two hours […]

Contaminated land in real estate transactions triggered a significant discount

The Frederiksberg Court has just delivered judgment in a case concerning defects in real property. The claimant buyers, represented by the undersigned attorney Mikkel Wrang, succeeded in their claim for payment of DKK 300,000 in the form of a proportional discount in the purchase price against the seller, as a gravel layer of approx. 175 […]

Sønderby Legal Welcomes New Partner

Attorney Mikkel Wrang Joins as Partner Based at Sønderby Legal’s Copenhagen Office For the past year, Mikkel Wrang has run his own practice and has been affiliated as an external lecturer at the University of Copenhagen in civil procedure and at the University of Southern Denmark in constitutional law. We look forward to a productive […]

FødevareDanmark wins case against both the EU Commission and the Danish state

The EU Court of Justice has just ruled in favor of FødevareDanmark, stating that it was anti-competitive and therefore illegal when the Danish government back in 2013 granted wastewater discounts to industrial slaughterhouses. Furthermore, the court states that EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager was disqualified when the EU Commission initially rejected FødevareDanmark’s complaint. It was […]

Law firm recruits young talent from its own ranks

At the law firm Sønderby Legal, three newly qualified lawyers started on the same day, February 1, 2024. These are Pernille Falk Meyer Larsen, Tobias Egeris Svendsen, and Victoria Stroyer Andersen, who until then had been employed as students at the firm. “The feedback from the lawyers who had them on their team was positive […]

Abuse regulations can be applied to small mergers

In a recent ruling, the European Court of Justice has established that just because the EU has introduced prior control over whether large mergers constitute an abuse of dominant position, small mergers may also be in violation of competition law. The ruling concludes years of legal disagreement in several member states, including Denmark. The dispute […]