Martin von Haller Grønbæk > Bird & Bird Advokatpartnerselskab > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile
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Martin von Haller Grønbæk
Work Department
Tech & Comms
Position
Martin is a partner in Bird & Bird’s Danish International Tech & Comms Group. Widely regarded as one of Denmark’s leading IT lawyers, he combines solid legal skills, innovative thought leadership and real strategic IT industry expertise.
Martin spent around 20 years advising Danish and international organisations, including major blue-chips, across the full spectrum of IT-related legal and commercial matters. He has gained a reputation as a pioneer in all legal aspects of online technology solutions (ecommerce, internet and web services), cyber and IT security, open source and open data, and other open licence forms such as Creative Commons.
Career
A lot of Martin’s work is in emergent areas and industries such as 3D printing, robotics, smart networks and smart cities, wearable tech, IoT, fintech, and Bitcoin and blockchain technologies.
He also advises technology start-ups and SMEs in the IT and media sectors on fundraising, M&A and transactions, corporate matters and more general commercial contracts.
Martin is a co-founder of the Danish E-commerce Association (FDIH), Internet Society DK, Creative Commons DK, the Danish Open Source Vendors Association and Danish Entrepreneurs Association, Quantified Self DK, OpenDenmark, HyperLedger and the Ethereum/Web3 Copenhagen meetups and the tech start-up community CPHFTW.
Martin is a certified IT attorney (certified by the Association of Danish IT Attorneys), and has also been admitted to the Danish High Court.
Martin co-authored the first thesis on Danish Internet Law, and I’m a frequent speaker at conferences on IT law, tech startups, blockchain tech, ecommerce and open source and Creative Commons.
Languages
Martin speaks Danish and English, and understand the Scandinavian languages.
Education
- University of Copenhagen, Master of Law, Law
- Danish Bar Association in 1991
Lawyer Rankings
Denmark > Information technology
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– Bird & Bird Advokatpartnerselskab
Bird & Bird Advokatpartnerselskab is praised for its ‘unparalleled experience within IT law, combined with a truly business-minded and commercially reasonable approach’. High-end IT transactional work, public digitisation projects and digital infrastructure matters are among the team’s core competencies in the space. Practice head Jan Ussing Andersen is a specialist in outsourcing and technology projects, with a focus on regulated sectors including telco and financial services. Pre-eminent practitioners Lau Normann Jørgensen and Martin Von Haller Grønbæk are key points of contact within the team. Jørgensen has over 20 years’ experience in software development, licensing, technology joint ventures, outsourcing, data monetisation, AI and digitisation projects. Von Haller Grønbæk is an authority on DLT, blockchain and NFTs, as well as open source and data, big data, smart contracts, and the platform economy. Julie Bak-Larsen’s impressive practice emphasises the cross-over between telecommunications and information technology. Nicolai Dragsted left the firm in March 2023.