Henrik Hauge Andersen

Practice Areas

Real Estate / Construction

Public Procurement

Dispute Resolution

Career

Partner, VILTOFT, 2009-

Attorney, VILTOFT, 2000-2009

Admitted to the Supreme Court, 2000

Attorney, Philip & Partnere, 1997-1999

Admitted to the High Court, 1995

Admitted to the Danish Bar, 1995

Assistant attorney and attorney, Kammeradvokaten, 1992-1996

Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Copenhagen, 1992

Professional Memberships

Member of the board of directors of the Danish Society for Construction and Consulting Law (since 2019)

Member of the Danish Association for Procurement Law

Publications

Co-author (with Michael Gjedde-Nielsen et al.) of "ABR 18: General Conditions for Consulting Services", Karnov Group, 1st edition, 2021.

Author of an article about procurement rules and the selection of construction client in social housing (Udbudsreglerne og valg af bygherre til alment nybyggeri) in Tidsskrift for Bygge- og Boligret, 2004, page 287.

Clients

Metroselskabet I/S, Odense Tramway P/S, Danish regions and municipalities, insurance companies, energy sector clients and technical consultancy firms (architects and engineers).

Industry Sector Expertise

Since 1978 VILTOFT has been a leading provider of legal services to the building and construction industry. The firm provides advice and representation to employers, contractors, architects, engineers, insurance companies and investors and has been involved in most of the significant construction and engineering projects in Denmark during the last several decades. Perhaps most notably, VILTOFT is sole legal advisor on all construction and procurement matters to Metroselskabet I/S, the public company building the Copenhagen Metro. VILTOFT’s team also advises clients on cross-border projects based on international standard contracts such as FIDIC.

Languages Spoken

English and the Scandinavian languages.

Experience

Since the mid-1990s Henrik Hauge Andersen has primarily provided legal advice in the fields of construction and procurement law with a special focus on the building and construction industry. Henrik represents all types of parties in building and construction: mainly construction clients and consultants, but frequently also contractors. Henrik’s regular clients include a number of local authorities in Denmark, several social housing associations, architectural and engineering firms, a handful of small and large construction companies and several Danish insurance companies, which he advises on matters relating to construction contracts.

Henrik has extensive litigation and negotiation experience from several large-scale court and arbitration proceedings in the field of construction law, in particular proceedings relating to the Copenhagen Metro project. He has also conducted cases for local authorities and social housing associations and has provided legal advice in relation to major company headquarters development projects, insurance disputes and all aspects of the legal position of consultants. However, Henrik’s main focus is on swift, efficient dispute resolution through negotiation, including mediation and conciliation. Henrik also has a great deal of public law experience, especially in the fields of planning law, expropriation law and administrative law.

Together with Insight Events, Henrik has organised the leading conference on construction law, Legal Challenges in Building and Construction, since 2012. He is also a member of the board of the Danish Society for Construction and Consulting Law.

Henrik has achieved recognition in Chambers Europe and Legal 500.