Ole Spiermann
Ole Spiermann also has extensive experience in conducting cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union. An important area of his work involves investigations, often across borders. Ole Spiermann led the investigations into the now-closed portfolio of foreign customers at Danske Bank's Estonian branch.
Another part of Ole Spiermann's practice concerns public law and criminal law, and he has been a member of both the Tibet Investigation Commission and the Mink Investigation Commission. He is also active in Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
Ole Spiermann is a former professor of international law at the University of Copenhagen. He is a recipient of the University of Copenhagen Gold Medal (1994) and holds a doctorate (PhD) from the University of Cambridge (2000).
Ole Spiermann is Chairman of Bruun & Hjejle's board of directors.
Featured cases
- Representing Finance Denmark in a Supreme Court case concerning index contracts in 2023
- Representing the law firm Bech-Bruun before the Supreme Court in an action for damages filed by the tax authorities
- Head of investigations into Danske Bank's Estonian branch from 2017-2020
- Represented Totalkredit A/S in acquittal at the Supreme Court in a case concerning contribution increases in 2019
Ole Spiermann is ranked in band 1 in Chambers and Partners, he is recognised as a 'Leading Individual' in The Legal 500, which also includes him in the Private Practice Powerlist 2022 for Arbitration in the Nordics, and he is recognised as a Dispute Resolution Star by Benchmark Litigation.
International Legal Argument in the Permanent Court of International Justice (CUP, 2005), several other books and numerous articles in Arbitration International as well as the European and American Journals of International Law etc.
Member of
- The Scrutiny Commission to investigate the mink case (2021-2022)
- Executive Council of International Law Association and expert committees on the protection of foreign investments (2003-2008) and international arbitration (2003-)
- International Council for Commercial Arbitration
- Working Group on Constitutional and International Law of the Greenland-Danish Self-Government (2005-2008)
- Arbitrator with the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (2007-2019)
- The Danish Ministry of Justice’s Committee on incorporation etc. in the human rights area (2013-2014)
- The Inquiry Commission of Tibet I and II (2016-2017 and 2018-2022)
- The General Council of the Danish Bar and Law Society
- Various professional associations
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