Josefine Movin Østergaard
Josefine represents Danish and foreign companies in litigation and arbitration. She has experience in a wide range of legal areas, including financial products, and focuses among other things on ESG-related issues and marketing and consumer law.
Josefine also advises private clients on succession planning, including the preparation of wills, deeds of gift, prenuptial agreements, and lasting powers of attorney.
In addition, Josefine has assisted clients with investigations of various sizes, which have included assessments of companies and individuals. She has practical experience with the guidelines or best practices that apply to investigations, including the rights of the affected and involved parties, collection of material, confidentiality and processing of personal data.
Each year, Josefine co-authors with Karsten Kristoffersen the Denmark chapter in the publication In-Depth: Securities Litigation (formerly The Securities Litigation Review).
- Representation of landowners and companies in the Nordic Waste case (2023-)
- Represented Bech-Bruun in court cases filed by the Danish Tax Administration against Bech-Bruun (2019-2023)
- Represented Bech-Bruun in court regarding a legal investigation for the Danish Ministry of Taxation and a specific question of impartiality and good legal practice (2018-2022)
- Legal investigation for the Greenland Self-Government on a tender for two bachelor programmes ( six months in 2020)
- Minor legal investigation for Danske Bank regarding notification of fee changes on an investment product (three months in 2020)
- Supreme Court cases for Totalkredit and BRFkredit on contribution increases (2019)
- Legal investigation of money laundering in Danske Bank's Estonian branch (10 months in 2018)
- Represented mortgage credit institutions and banks in a large number of small and medium-sized lawsuits against private and business customers
Josefine Movin Østergaard is named 'Next Generation Partner' in Legal 500 and 'Up and Coming' in Chambers and Partners.
She was also included on Berlingske's Talent 100 list in 2022.
- Annual chapter on Denmark in the publication In-Depth: Securities Litigation (formerly The Securities Litigation Review)
- "An Assessor on the Tribunal: How a Court is to Decide when Experts Disagree", Civil Justice Quarterly, C.J.Q. 2016, 35(4), 319-341, October 2016
- The Danish marketing law association (Dansk Forening for Markedsføringsret)
- The Danish Bar and Law Society
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