Morten Nissen
Europe Guide 2024
Band 3 : Competition/European Law
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About
Provided by Morten Nissen
Languages Spoken
Morten speaks Danish, English, French and understands and speaks other Scandinavian languages.
Practice Areas
Morten is a partner and co-head of Bird & Bird's international Competition & EU group and leads the Competition & EU team in Denmark and Sweden as well. He has a particular focus on applying competition & EU law as a tool to achieve specific and measurable business objectives for clients.
Morten advises on a broad range of competition law cases, from purely advisory over compliance and transactional to acting as third party complainant in larger, strategic competition law cases. There is most often a technology element involved. He has solid international experience and an outlook based on working for more than 12 years as a lawyer based in Brussels, which includes doing a number of fascinating competition cases in many countries across Europe as well as Asia.
Over the years, Morten has represented clients in a large number of legal procedures before the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Amongst these, he has won four appeal cases against the EU Commission, including a state aid case before the Grand Chamber of the EU court of justice which ultimately led to the EU Commission's Legal Service turning around and choosing me to represent the Commission in a number of other state aid cases.
Professional Memberships
Morten is a member of the Advisory Board of World Competition, Law and Economics Journals (Kluwer)
Publications
Morten Nissen is the co-author of 'Guide to EU Pharmaceutical Regulatory Law' (Kluwer).
Chambers Review
Europe
Morten Nissen of Bird & Bird enters the rankings on account of a broad range of competition law work, including abuse of dominance investigations, state aid disputes and merger clearance filings. He has further experience in competition law compliance mandates, particularly those concerning sustainability agreements. He is a popular choice with clients from the technology sector.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He is a creative competition lawyer."
"We think his service was excellent."
"He is a creative competition lawyer."
"We think his service was excellent."