Henrik Peytz

Henrik Peytz advises on strategic competition law issues and, in particular, competition and state aid cases and other cases concerning public regulation.

Henrik Peytz has a special interest in EU tax cases and has conducted a number of tax cases before the Danish tax authorities and courts and before the European Court of Justice.

Henrik Peytz was born in 1959 and graduated in law from the University of Copenhagen in 1983.

Bar admission and training

• 2007 - Appeared before the Supreme Court
• 1991 - Master of Business Administration (MBA with distinction), INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
• 1987 - Right to appear before the High Court
• 1986 - Lawyer

Professional experience

• 2001 - 2010 - Lecturer in EU Competition Law at the University of Copenhagen
• 1984 - 1999 - Law firm Kromann & Münter (now Kromann Reumert)
• 1990 - Clifford Chance Law Firm (Brussels)
• 1983 - 1984 - Lecturer in administrative law at the University of Copenhagen
• 1983 - 1984 - Law Department of the Ministry of Justice

Fiduciary and other activities

• 2017 - 2023 - Deputy member of the Bar Council
• 2016 - Chairman of the Tax Policy Committee of the Confederation of Danish Enterprise
• 2014 - Co-founder and member of the board of the Danish Association for State Aid Law
• 2013 - 2016 - Vice-Chairman of the Danish Business Tax Policy Committee
• 2004 - Examiner for the Bar Association in the field of EU and competition law
• 1993 - 2019 - Lecturer for the Danish Association of Lawyers and Economists (DJØF), the Danish Bar and Law Society, the Association of Danish Lawyers and the Danish School of Public Administration, etc. regarding public procurement law, EU law and tax law
• 1987 - 1990 - Chairman of the Bar Council's Information Committee on the EU Internal Market
• 1987 - 1990 - Member of the Information Committee of the Bar Council

Languages

• English
• German
• French