Mr Dan Bjerg Geary > Bech-Bruun > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile

Bech-Bruun
Gdanskgade 18
2150 Nordhavn
Denmark

Work Department

IP & Technology.

Position

Partner

Career

Dan Bjerg Geary specialises in technical IP law and complex contracts. He has extensive experience with enforcement in infringement cases.

With great insight and strategic flair he represents Danish and non-Danish enterprises in connection with, among other things, the negotiation and conclusion of licence agreements and other intellectual property law agreements concerning patents and technology.

Dan has worked with renewable energy, particularly in the wind industry, both offshore and onshore as well as Power-to-X (p-t-x) for more than 15 years.

He has in-depth knowledge of complex contracts in Denmark and abroad, including FIDIC.

Dan is one of Denmark’s top franchise lawyers and a member of the executive committee of the association Franchise Danmark. He has worked systematically with franchising and distribution for more than a decade and renders advice to several of the leading franchise chains in Denmark.

Dan also has extensive experience with the protection of trade secrets, know-how and internal compliance, and he also provides advice on marketing and gaming law.

Dan’s high professionalism and international knowledge of intellectual property law issues is further consolidated by him holding an LLM in intellectual property law from the WIPO Academy at Universitá degli Studio di Torino in Italy.

Previously, Dan was a lecturer at Aarhus University, and he regularly teaches courses on, among other things, intellectual property law issues and contracts targeted at the industrial sector and the legal profession.

Languages

The Scandinavian Languages, English

Education

Right of audience, The Danish Supreme Court (2018)

Right of audience, The Danish High Court (2013)

LLM (2013)

Associate (2009)

Master of Laws (2006)

Ba.Scient.Pol (2001)

Lawyer Rankings

Denmark > Intellectual property

(Leading individuals)

Dan Bjerg Geary – Bech-Bruun

The team at Bech-Bruun has in-depth knowledge of IP, exemplified by Claus Barrett Christiansen, who leads the trade mark and design practice. Other key names include Mikkel Friis Rossa, who heads the data protection team; Martin Dræbye Gantzhorn, who heads the life science and healthcare practice group; and Klaus Ewald Madsen, who leads the patent litigation team. Jeppe Brinck-Jensen is a new addition to the team and regularly acts as a litigator in intellectual property proceedings; Dan Bjerg Geary‘s practice includes transactional work, and licensing issues across a range of industries; Senior associate Sisse Langberg Lassen is another key member of the team.