Peter Arnt Nielsen is Professor in
Danish and International Arbitration,
Litigation, and Mediation and
Danish and International
Contract Law.
He is through his law firm a Certified
Arbitrator and a Court Mediator.
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Advocate
Peter Arnt Nielsen
Sankt Thomas Allé 1
1824 Frederiksberg C
Denmark
pan@panlaw.dk
www.panlaw.dk
TEL +45 26 22 88 22
CVR No. 35 33 12 20
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Information
Peter Arnt Nielsen is an Advocate and Professor in Danish and International Arbitration, Litigation, and Meditation, and Danish and International Contract Law.
He is a Court Mediator in the district of the High Court of Eastern Denmark and a Certified Arbitrator.
Advokat Peter Arnt Nielsen is admitted to practice law by the Ministry of Justice, and a mem-ber of the Danish Bar and Law Society.
Advocates are subject to the Danish Bar and Law Society’s Authority, its disciplinary system, the Code of Legal Ethics, the Code of Conduct for Advocates (Article 126 of the Administration of Justice Act), see advokatsamfundet.dk, and the personal data protection and money laun-dering legislation.
As required by the Danish Bar and Law Society, advocate Peter Arnt Nielsen has a liability in-surance and a guarantee covering any legal practice. It is with HDI Danmark, Langebrogade 3F, 1411 Copenhagen K, police no. 1560 865746 114002.
The law firm is a one-man business.
Advocate Peter Arnt Nielsen's Standard Terms contains clauses on choice-of-law and jurisdic-tion and information on hourly rates and salaries etc.
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Standard Terms
Unless agreed otherwise in writing, these Standard Terms apply.
1. Confidentiality
Advocate Peter Arnt Nielsen (pan) is subject to professional secrecy. Any information from or regarding clients is treated as confidential.
2. Conflict of interest or of loyalty
pan does not undertake an assignment if a conflict of interest or of loyalty could arise.
3. Fee
3.1. pan’s fee is determined on the basis of the time spent on the assignment, the nature of the assignment, the complexity of the assignment, and its importance to the client, the values involved, the outcome of the assignment, and the liability exposure based on the hourly rates and salaries in clause 9.
3.2. Upon receipt of an assignment, pan gives an estimate of the expected fee and costs. If the fee etc. is expected to exceed the estimate, pan immediately informs the client thereof.
3.3. pan examines to what extent a client can receive public legal aid or insurance cover for legal costs. If the fee is to be paid provisionally or finally out of public funds or by an insuran-ce company, the client will be advised of the principles for determining the fee and of the po-tential consequences for the client.
4. Invoice, costs, and security
4.1. pan invoices the client, when the assignment has been completed. Continuous assistance and assignments of long duration are invoiced quarterly. VAT is added pursuant to Danish VAT legislation. Payment is due one week after invoice date.
4.2. In case of late payment, default interest will be charged in accordance with the Danish In-terest Rate Act (renteloven).
4.3. The client must prepay costs. Costs are charged separately to the client.
4.4. For mediation and arbitration, the parties shall provide security forpan's fee and costs. If a party fails to provide security, the other party may provide the security in full. The parties are jointly and severally liable for the fee and costs.
4.5. In other cases than mediation and arbitration, pan may demand that the client provides security for pan's fees and costs.
5. Use of services
5.1. pan’s services are targeted at each individual assignment and are accordingly not to be used for any other purpose without pan’s explicit prior consent.
5.2. Original documents are handed over to the client upon completion of the assignment. The files are kept for five years from the date of invoice.
6. Completion of the assignment before agreed
pan reserves the right to discontinue an assignment if the credit period of an invoice has been exceeded with four weeks; the client does not settle an invoice; the client becomes insolvent; pan finds that it cannot be responsible for handling the case, or if it is in the interest of the cli-ent that the cooperation is terminated.
7. Limitation of liability, limitation, and insurance cover
7.1. Subject to paragraphs 2, 3, and 4, pan is liable for its services in accordance with the ge-neral rules of Danish law. pan is covered by a statutory professional liability insurance.
7.2. pan’s liability is limited to an amount equivalent to 5 times the fee (ex VAT) for the assign-ment, and not more than 2.5 million DKK per assignment. pan’s liability does not comprise fin-ancial consequential losses, including, but not limited to, operating loss, loss of data, lost ear-nings, goodwill, image, etc., or any other indirect loss.
7.3. A commercial client's claim for damages against pan will become timebarred 12 months after the client became or ought to have become aware of the circumstances on which the claim is based.
7.4. pan is not liable for mistakes or faults committed by advisors that pan has referred the cli-ent to, or for mistakes or faults committed by sub-contractors that pan in agreement with the client has passed on parts of the assignment to.
8. Choice of law and jurisdiction
8.1. Any dispute between a client and pan is governed exclusively by Danish law.
8.2. Complaints concerning advocates' fees and conduct can be brought before the Discipli-nary Board, Kronprinsessegade 28, 1306 Copenhagen K.
8.3. Any dispute between a client and pan shall be settled by the Danish courts. The Danish courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to handle any case between a client and pan.
9. Hourly rates and fees 2024 (DKK)
Hourly rates, commercial, ex VAT
Counselling, specialist 3,500
Counselling, general 2,500
Ad hoc mediation 2,500
Ad hoc arbitration 2,500
Hourly rates, private, inc VAT
Councelling, specialist 3,500
Councelling, general 2,500
Ad hoc mediation 2,500
Ad hoc arbitration 2,500
Court fees, ex VAT
Court mediation, 3 hours 9,595
Court mediation, 1 extra hour 1,965
Travel, 1 hour 985
The Danish Institute of Mediation, ex VAT
8 hours, commercial, ex VAT 30,000
1 extra hour, ex VAT 2,500
The Danish Institute of Mediation, inc VAT
4 hours, private 18,750
4 hours, consumer 18.750
4 hours, family 18.750
1 extra hour 3,125
Appointment fee, family 3.125
Copenhagen Arbitration, ex VAT
1 hour, mediation 2,500
Lectures, ex VAT
Lecture, 1 x 45 min 8,000
Lecture, 2 x 45 min 12,000
Vocational training etc, ex VAT
Course, 3 x 45 min 16,000
Course, 4 x 45 min 20,000
Course, 5 x 45 min 24,000
Course, 6 x 45 min 28,000
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Personal Data Protection and Money Laundering Prevention
1. Data responsible
Advocate Peter Arnt Nielsen (pan) is responsible for treatment of personal data.
2. Provision of services and personal data protection
2.1. Personal data is used to communicate with the client, process the assignment, and to effect possible registrations with the authorities. Personal data is in particular name, civil regi-stration number, position, e-mail, telephone number, address, and employment matters. It may be necessary to handle personal data when effecting registrations with the authorities, e.g. through virk.dk and minretssag.dk. In some assignments, e.g. court mediations, sensitive personal data, e.g. about health, may be handled. The parties or authorities may provide this information.
2.2. As a general rule, personal data is stored for five years after the completion of the assign-ment, but in certain cases the information may be stored for a shorter or longer period of time.
2.3. pan provides professional training, but these courses, lectures, and seminars are arran-ged entirely by the customer, and pan is not data responsible for such courses, lectures, and seminars.
3. Recipients of personal data
3.1. Personal data is treated confidentially and is not passed on to others, as pan is subject to professional secrecy. However, the information may, as part of processing the assignment, be passed on to the counterpart, authorities, courts, or an arbitral tribunal etc.
3.2. Personal data is not transferred to States outside the EU/EEC, unless this is done to a specific client, counterpart, authorities, courts, or an arbitral tribunal in accordance with the Data Protection Regulation, Article 49(1)(b)-(e).
4. Marketing
pan does not use personal data for marketing purposes. pan’s homepage does not use cook-ies.
5. Your rights
Under the Data Protection Regulation, a client has the following rights:
6. Money laundering control
pan does not handle cases covered by the Danish Money Laundering Prevention Statute, Ar-ticle 1(1)(14).
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