What the team is known for
Well-regarded team with expertise in an array of IT matters, including outsourcing, data protection and telecoms infrastructure agreements. Also advises on regulatory aspects of transactional and corporate mandates in the IT sector. Maintains a media practice focused on distribution rights and licensing issues. Acts on behalf of private clients in the media, energy and manufacturing industries, as well as local municipalities.

Strengths
One interviewee describes Bech-Bruun as "a firm that takes a genuine interest in knowing their clients."

Work highlights
Assisted Accenture with its acquisition of a Danish advertising and media company, Hjaltelin Stahl, involving due diligence on IP, IT and media-related matters.

Notable practitioners
The "excellent" Niels Andersen is a respected lawyer who regularly advises clients on IT-related M&A transactions, outsourcing proceedings, licensing issues and regulatory matters. One client remarks that he is "constructive at finding solutions,"while another describes him as "exceptionally good at catching the important aspects of cases." 

Chambers and Partners Europe, TMT

Ranked: tier 1

Bech-Bruun has expertise in contentious and non-contentious matters overlapping between IT, data protection and IT-security, which also includes GDPR issues. The firm advises public and private companies on IT system development and supply agreements, software licensing and IT operational services agreements concerning traditional hosting and outsourcing services. Niels M. Andersen, Thomas Munk Rasmussen and Mikkel Friis Rossa jointly head the practice and have experience in the drafting and negotiation of procurement and technology transfer agreements, as well as with due diligence work.

Legal 500, Information technology