Challenges and requirements

State aid encompasses both direct and indirect aid from a public body to a specific business or branch. The purpose of the rules governing state aid is to ensure that competition between EU businesses is not distorted. These rules have a significant practical impact on politicians, the entities giving and receiving the aid and competitors. In recent years, the rules have played a more prominent role, as authorities run the risk of being obliged to claim any unlawful state aid back and competitors can bring a claim for compensation before the national courts. Clients require advice, both when they wish to ensure that they themselves have acted in compliance with the applicable rules and when they wish to lodge a complaint concerning alleged unlawful state aid to a competitor.

How we can help

We have a team of highly specialised lawyers, who are deeply immersed in this field and have some of Denmark's leading experts in this area. We have advised businesses on all aspects of state aid, during the course of a number of years, also with respect to some high profile cases. At the same time, we have conducted many cases before the Danish and EU courts. Furthermore, we constantly monitor the development of rules and practice in this area, so we can ensure that we always are up to date.