Corporate Criminal Law

The business sector faces increasingly stricter regulation across multiple legal areas, and in recent years authorities have substantially increased resources for monitoring, control and enforcement. We assist our clients in navigating these new circumstances and guide them through regulatory matters to achieve optimal outcomes.

Commercial undertakings in Denmark navigate a complex legal landscape. At national, EU and international level regulations has become stricter and more stringent in several legal areas, including capital markets law (securities trading, market abuse, insider trading, market manipulation), competition law, tax law, data protection law, and international trade.

This heightened focus on law enforcement has increased the risk for commercial undertakings and other organisations becoming subject to regulatory matters (civil proceedings or criminal proceedings). Regardless of whether a regulatory matter is justified - and whether it concludes without liability for the relevant organisation - the matter will potentially involve numerous risks of a financial, regulatory and reputational nature. The same applies to individuals related to the organisation, in particular members of management, as both national and international authorities increasingly pursue individuals.

Our corporate criminal law team represent clients as defence counsel in regulatory matters, for instance if an organisation or a member of management requires defence against the authorities.

Regulatory matters may give rise to parallel or subsequent civil proceedings, including actions for damages. As coordination between various matters is crucial to the handling of our clients' defence, Plesner focuses on advisers having the required qualifications in both disciplines. Accordingly, the same team will assist the client through the entire proceedings, assisted by experts from Plesner's other practice areas.