Asbjørn Fallesen co-founded HFA Law in 2021. He is a partner and owner of HFA Law. Asbjørn Fallesen is highly specialized in the state aid rules and the competition rules in Denmark and the EU. Asbjørn Fallesen has extensive experience with all aspects of these rules and with a number of connected areas of law such as the rules on damages and the criminal justice rules. Asbjørn Fallesen has particularly extensive experience with the competition law rules for dominant undertakings, where his work has been highly focused on court cases concerning the most complex legal and economic issues in the area for a number of years.
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In November of 2016, the Danish Supreme Court rejected a claim made by trade association Søfartens Ledere on behalf of two sailors against the Danish Ministry of Tax. The two sailors had been employed under a Danish net tax scheme approved by the European Commission based on its guidelines for (...)
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In a judgement of October 2016, the High Court of Eastern Denmark has rejected a state aid complaint against FOTdanmark, an association of Danish public authorities operating a shared database of digital topographical maps and making those maps available to members of the association and third (...)
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In January of 2015, the High Court of Western Denmark found that the Municipality of Sønderborg was right to amend two premium-free guarantees granted by the Municipality to district heating companies so that a premium would be charged going forward to avoid findings of state aid. The (...)
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By a judgement of June 2013, the Danish Maritime and Commercial Court reversed previous decisions of the Danish Competition Authority and the Danish Competition Appeals Board ordering recovery of state aid in the form of below-market rent to a tenant of a publicly owned property. The Maritime (...)
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In a judgement of May 2013, the High Court of Eastern Denmark found that a tender procedure for a contract under which the winning bidder was to provide access to a nationwide radio-based telecommunications network to public emergency response services did not entail state aid. One of the (...)
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By a judgment of March 2013, the High Court of Eastern Denmark has rejected a claim by a holder of a radio license concession that the fee for the said concession should be reduced because another radio license concession holder had allegedly received state aid in the form of an insufficient (...)
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In a judgement of April 2012, the High Court of Western Denmark has considered the EU’s SME definition. In the judgement, the court found that a business that had initially been awarded app. DKK 3.4 million (app. EUR 460,000) in subsidies under a European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee (...)
