Josephine Bloch Thomsen
Josephine Bloch Thomsen is part of DLA Piper Denmark’s social housing team, assisting social housing organisations, pension companies, property developers and investors in matters concerning the realisation of social and private residential housing projects and major real-estate transactions.
Josephine provides advice in complex regulatory matters relating to real estate and is also involved in pre-legislative work as well as in major linked court cases. She has extensive experience of the latter due to her previous employment with the Danish courts etc.
Josephine has lectured on Civil Procedure at the University of Copenhagen and co-authored the article ”Appealing judgments by the Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court to the Supreme Court of Denmark – status after approx. two years of the new rules on appealing judgments by the Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court (section 368(4)-(6) of the Danish Administration of Justice Act)”, published (in Danish only) in the Danish weekly law reports in 2016.
Josephine has shared her views on various aspects of her working life in this portrait (in Danish only): ”It could be interesting to explore a more team-based approach” | DLA Piper
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- Josephine acted for an IT group in a trademark dispute. The action called for in-depth knowledge of the industry, including the new technological advances, as well as the structuring of arguments relating to trademark, marketing and corporate law in a civil action.
- Josephine provides advice to online platforms on terms and conditions in the light of, among other things, the liability-exemption rules set out in the Danish e-commerce Act. She acted for a platform in a criminal case concerning distribution of third-party products, including issues of product safety.
- Together with our M&A practice group, Josephine provided assistance in connection with a transaction involving software for wind turbines. Josephine assisted in the due diligence and was in charge of handling the IP issues raised by the transaction.
Senior Associate, DLA Piper Denmark, since 2024
Attorney, DLA Piper Denmark, 2022-2023
Assistant Judge, the Copenhagen Maritime and Commercial High Court, 2020-2022
Corporate Counsel, private business enterprise, 2019-2020
Assistant Attorney, Bruun & Hjejle Advokatpartnerselskab, 2016-2018
Assistant Judge, the Copenhagen Maritime and Commercial High Court, 2015-2016
Josephine has been a part-time lecturer in Civil Procedure at the University of Copenhagen.
Co-author of the article ”Appealing judgments by the Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court to the Supreme Court of Denmark – status after approx. two years of the new rules on appealing judgments by the Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court (section 368(4)-(6) of the Danish Administration of Justice Act)” (published in Danish only), the Danish weekly law reports, 2016