Line Marie Pedersen

Partner
Line Marie Pedersen
Location
Copenhagen
Language
English
Services

Line Marie Pedersen has dealt with issues of environmental law for more than 20 years. 

Line is head of DLA Piper Denmark’s environmental law team as well as head of the Real Estate Practice Group in Copenhagen. She has a right of audience before the Danish Supreme Court and is recognised by The Legal 500 within 'Environment'. 

Line assists in particular Danish enterprises, institutions and public authorities in environmental matters. She has extensive experience in advising on environmental and wastewater discharge permits. 

Moreover, she advises on the Danish Environmental Assessment Act, including the completion of environmental impact assessments and the issue of EIA permits. Line also provides assistance regarding registration and notification of contamination, planning of pollution abatement measures, clean-up issues, environmental compensation and environmental damage. 

In addition, Line has in-depth knowledge of planning legislation, nature conservation and the construction of coast and climate protection measures as well as the erection of wind farms and other renewable energy facilities. Finally, she advises hazardous establishments especially in relation to the Danish Executive Order on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances. 

Line lectures on issues of environmental law at the Association of Danish Law Firms.  

She is also a member of the Executive Committee of Danske Miljøadvokater (Danish environmental lawyers) and the author of Contaminated Soil as well as the chapter entitled Regulation of real estate in Commercial criminal law, both published (in Danish only) by Karnov Group in 2015.

Qualifications
Education
Admitted to the Danish Bar
2001
Master of Law, University of Copenhagen
1998
Memberships

The Danish Environmental Law Society 

Danske Miljøadvokater (Danish environmental lawyers) 

Admission
Right of audience before the Danish Supreme Court
2012
Experience
Recent highlights
  • Line Marie Pedersen has provided trusted advice to Crossbridge Energy A/S since 2001 on environmental approvals, wastewater discharge permits, pipelines and contamination issues. In addition, she has provided legal advice relating to the transition from traditional oil activities to green energy production.  

  • Line has advised the Danish Central Oil Stockholdings (FDO) regarding risk assessments, contamination due to leaking pipelines and tank facilities as well as environmental approvals, including compliance.  

  • Line has assisted Drivkraft Danmark (the Danish fuel and EV charging suppliers’ trade organisation) on an ongoing basis regarding the Danish Executive Order on filling stations and environmental requirements imposed on filling stations and regarding the insurance policies taken out by oil companies to cover contamination from home oil tanks.  

  • Since 2000, Line has provided trusted advice to Danish insurer Topdanmark Forsikring A/S and Oliebranchens Miljøpulje (the Danish oil industry’s environmental clean-up fund) on enforcement notices to clean up contamination from home oil tanks.  

Career highlights

Partner, DLA Piper Denmark, since 2017 

Partner, LETT (DLA Piper Denmark), 2011-2017 

Attorney, LETT (DLA Piper Denmark), 2005-2011 

Attorney, Lett, Vilstrup & Partnere (DLA Piper Denmark), 2001-2005 

Assistant Attorney, Lett, Vilstrup & Partnere (DLA Piper Denmark), 1998-2001 

Positions of trust

Member of the Executive Committee of Danske Miljøadvokater (Danish environmental lawyers), since 2014 

Representative of the Association of Danish Law Firms on a task force looking into the barriers to mortgaging and selling contaminated and potentially contaminated properties, since 2010 

Other positions

Lecturer, the Association of Danish Law Firms, since 2005 

Rankings
Legal 500

Line Marie Pedersen is recognized by The Legal 500 as 'Leading partners' within 'Environment'.

"We have had excellent collaboration with Partner Line Marie Pedersen. She can very quickly identify all the icebergs ahead, and can lead us through rough seas. Or advise us to find another route."

"Line Marie Pedersen is a very skilled environmental lawyer. Line is the lawyer in Denmark with the best knowledge of contamination."

"Line and her team maintain a particularly high legal level in the field of environmental law. Line has an in-depth knowledge of special contamination of soil and groundwater both in relation to the legal framework and insurance coverage."

"Line Marie Pedersen always gives top professional legal advice on several different environmental cases."

"Line Marie Pedersen is one of the most respected and recognized lawyers with many years of experience in environmental law in Denmark. She has gathered a team of highly qualified lawyers around her given the perfect balance between skills and cost-effective"

"Line Marie Pedersen and her team maintain a particularly high legal level in the field of environmental law. They are a professional, competent team with great knowledge. They are sharp on the legislation and have a pleasant tone."

"They are skilled and thorough, Line Marie Pedersen in particular has a good technical understanding of soil and groundwater pollution management."

"I have always experienced DLA Piper as a very professional and committed partner with extensive experience and a unique knowledge within environmental legislation in Denmark. We consider DLA Piper to be one of the leading law firms in Denmark."

Insights

Contaminated Soil (published in Danish only), Karnov Group, 2015 

The chapter entitled "Regulation of real estate" published in "Commercial criminal law" (published in Danish only), Karnov Group, 2015