Ms Marlene Winther Plas > DLA Piper Denmark > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile
DLA Piper Denmark Offices
Oslo Plads 2
DK-2100 Copenhagen
Denmark
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Ms Marlene Winther Plas
Work Department
IPT
Position
Marlene Winther Plas specialises in IT law and data protection and has more than 20 years’ experience in technology-related law. Marlene has in-depth knowledge of all major aspects of business law, including the legal and commercial challenges facing Danish and foreign enterprises. She is a qualified mediator and arbitrator and assists Danish as well as non-Danish enterprises and public authorities in the resolution of IT and commercial disputes.
Marlene is a certified IT attorney and specialises in IT law, assisting clients in eg the negotiation and preparation of complex IT contracts (supply contracts and systems procurement for the private and public sectors), IT outsourcing, development projects and major technology transactions. Marlene also deals with dispute resolution and litigation regarding IT supplies. Furthermore, Marlene has vast experience in data protection and data protection compliance projects and provides assistance to Danish and foreign enterprises and public authorities regarding compliance with data protection rules. Marlene is, moreover, head of DLA Piper Denmark’s IPT team and in-house Data Protection Compliance team. Since 2001, Marlene has been involved in political and professional activities within the legal sector. In 2008, she assisted in establishing the Association of Danish Law Firms and was its vice-chairman up until 2016; she also sat on the Committee of the Association of Danish IT Attorneys for a number of years.
Career
Please see https://denmark.dlapiper.com/en/people/marlene-winther-plas for further information.
Languages
Danish, English
Memberships
- The Association of Danish IT Attorneys
- Danish Mediation Lawyers
- The Danish Arbitration Association
- The International Bar Association (IBA)
- The Copenhagen Bar Association
Education
- Admitted to the Danish Bar (1996)
- Maitrise de droit international et européen, Panthéon-Assas, Paris II (1993)
- Master of Law, University of Copenhagen (1993)
Lawyer Rankings
Denmark > Data privacy and data protection
DLA Piper Denmark
regularly undertakes the full suite of data privacy matters and is particularly well known for its work involving emerging technologies, offering specialist knowledge of the regulation of biometrics, AI, new AI regulation, ChatGPT and other language models; it also handles whistleblowing solutions, DPO-as-a-service issues, data protection audits and data protection impact assessment methodologies. Practice head Marlene Winther Plas has extensive experience in all aspects of technology-related law and data protection issues, while Jon Lauritzen acts as DPO for clients under the team’s DPO-as-a-service offering.
Denmark > Information technology
(Leading individuals)DLA Piper Denmark possesses a wealth of experience in IT and technology-related contracts, particularly tech outsourcing, IT systems procurement, GPP criteria, and public procurement. Data protection, cyber security including NIS2, and new technologies are other core focuses of the team, headed up by Marlene Winther Plas, who has more than 25 years’ experience of technology-related law and data protection issues. Head of litigation Jon Lauritzen is the go-to name for contentious matters arising out of the sector.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals Denmark > Information technology
- Data privacy and data protection Denmark
- Information technology Denmark