Jens Munk Plum

Jens Munk Plum advises on competition law, state aid law, Danish and European procurement law and regulatory matters, including unfair trading practices and foreign direct investments. He is the head of our competition law practice group.

With more than 25 years’ experience advising on competition law, he has handled cases within all aspects of competition law, successfully advising both Danish and foreign businesses. This includes matters regarding abuse of dominance, including discount schemes, prices, and refusal to supply.

Jens has worked on matters relating to cartels, leniency procedures, criminal competition proceedings, and follow-on claims, and has considerable experience advising on distribution systems in Denmark and the EU, with a particular focus on online sales and the digital area as a whole. Also, Jens has throughout a long period of time worked on matters relating to unfair trading practices.

Jens has outstanding knowledge of merger cases, both Danish and foreign, and is particularly experienced in the fields of telecommunications, finance, retail, and industrial affairs.

He has conducted cases before the CJEU, i.a. representing EY in the landmark action over the interpretation of merger standstill rules, which forced the Danish Competition Council to give up its legal action claiming infringement of said rules.

Also, Jens has been working more than 25 years with EU and Danish procurement law and has conducted a considerable number of cases before the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement and the courts, including the CJEU. In fact, the former established general principles for procurement law handling of rectifications on the basis of one such case. The Danish Public Procurement Act was ultimately amended to reflect these principles.

He advises both contracting entities and suppliers across the full spectrum of the tender process. Lastly, Jens also advises on international procurement law issues, including cross-border joint purchasing arrangements.

Always adopting a pragmatic and commercial approach, his focus is on getting cases resolved as quickly and as successfully as possible, enabling clients to meet their commercial objectives.