Morten Nissen

Languages Spoken

Morten speaks Danish, English, French and understands and speaks other Scandinavian languages.

Practice Areas

Automotive; Competition Law; Energy & Utilities; Financial Services; Life Sciences and Healthcare; Media; Entertainment and Sport; Retail and Consumer; Technology & Communications

Professional Memberships

Morten is a member of the Advisory Board of World Competition, Law and Economics Journals (Kluwer)

Publications

Morten Nissen is the co-author of 'Guide to EU Pharmaceutical Regulatory Law' (Kluwer).

Career

Morten is a partner and co-head of our international Competition & EU group. Morten also leads the Competition & EU team in Denmark. Morten has a particular focus on applying competition & EU law as a tool to achieve specific and measurable business objectives for Bird & Bird's clients.

Competition authorities act differently in different countries. Morten has solid international experience and an outlook based on working for more than 12 years as a lawyer based in Brussels, which includes doing a number of fascinating competition cases in many countries across Europe as well as Asia. This first-hand experience helps Morten better navigate cases to obtain results that make a difference.

Morten's primary focus is on state aid, competition restricting agreements, and abuse of dominance. He have made numerous EU and national merger control notifications, and he is always focused on optimising the business outcome and delivering competitive advantage. Morten is proud to say that he have been involved in a high number of cases that made new case law. Morten's sector experience is particularly strong in the pharmaceutical, copyright, media, IT, telecoms, passenger transport and international payment systems sectors.

Over the years, Morten has represented clients in a large number of legal procedures before the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Amongst these, he have won four appeal cases against the EU Commission, including a state aid case before the Grand Chamber of the EU court of justice which ultimately led to the EU Commission's Legal Service turning around and choosing him to represent the Commission in a number of other state aid cases.