Legal & Tax counsel.
Danish tax and legal counsel for matters where the facts, timing, documentation and cross-border consequences need to be handled precisely.
Moore Law’s Danish practice advises private clients, founders, executives, family offices and companies on Danish tax, company law, contracts, transactions and disputes. The practice is built around matters where legal form, tax treatment and commercial reality must be read together.
Some matters begin with a letter from the Danish Tax Agency. Others begin before a transaction, relocation, restructuring or contract is signed. In both situations, the same principle applies: the position is strongest when the facts are organised early, the legal question is framed correctly and the evidence is prepared before the authority, counterparty or court asks for it.
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Danish tax and legal questions are fact-sensitive. Deadlines, appeal routes, cost recovery, tax residence, transaction structure and dispute strategy must be checked against the specific matter.
Provided by Moore Law · CVR 43 57 76 70 · Copenhagen, Denmark · Visits by prior appointment · Danish tax adviser and legal advisory.
The work begins with the facts.
In tax and legal matters, the answer is rarely found by reading a single rule. It is found by sequencing the facts properly: who did what, when, where, under which documents, with whose money, under which decision-making structure and with which tax or legal consequence.
That is why Moore Law’s Danish practice is deliberately narrow. We do not try to be every client’s general adviser on every minor legal issue. We act where the matter requires legal judgement, tax analysis, procedural care or cross-border coordination.
The purpose is not to make the matter look simple. It is to make the position defensible.
Areas of practice.
Tax cases & litigation
Representation in Danish tax matters from the first enquiry by the Tax Agency through Skatteankestyrelsen, Landsskatteretten and court proceedings where required.
Tax residency & exit tax
Pre-departure and dispute advisory for individuals, founders and executives relocating from Denmark, including exit tax, homes, shares, options, pensions and documentation.
Denmark–UAE relocation
Relocation tax planning for Danish clients moving to the UAE, including Danish tax residence, exit tax, UAE residency evidence and future return risk.
International taxation
Cross-border tax counsel for individuals, founders, family offices and groups, including permanent establishment, holding structures, withholding, UAE corporate tax and documentation.
Binding tax rulings
Strategy, drafting and submission of binding ruling requests to the Danish Tax Agency where tax certainty is needed before a transaction or relocation step.
Company law
Danish company law for ApS and A/S companies, shareholder arrangements, restructurings, governance, beneficial ownership and liquidation.
M&A and joint ventures
Danish-side transaction counsel for acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures, with tax and company-law issues built into the deal architecture.
International business law
Cross-border commercial counsel on governing law, forum, enforcement, agency, distribution, licensing, services contracts and regulatory coordination.
Dispute resolution & arbitration
Commercial dispute strategy, Danish litigation, international arbitration, settlement, enforcement and legacy DIFC-LCIA clause review.
Contract law
Drafting, review and negotiation of commercial agreements written to be read, negotiated and relied upon if the relationship later becomes contested.
When clients usually contact us.
A tax authority has written
The client has received a request for information, proposed assessment, audit letter or final decision from the Danish Tax Agency.
A move is being planned
The client is leaving Denmark, moving to the UAE or another jurisdiction, or returning to Denmark after time abroad.
A transaction is being considered
The client is selling, buying, restructuring, transferring shares, gifting assets, implementing incentives or forming a joint venture.
A contract matters
The client is about to sign a long-term, cross-border or high-value agreement that will be difficult to unwind later.
A dispute has started
The counterparty, shareholder, tax authority, customer, adviser or business partner has taken a position that must now be answered.
A structure needs review
The company, holding structure, UAE entity, family arrangement or cross-border ownership chain no longer matches the real facts.
How a Legal & Tax matter is handled.
Initial scoping
We identify the legal question, the jurisdictions involved, the deadline, the documents available and the decision that must be made.
Fact and document review
We organise the facts chronologically and test the documents against the legal position that must be defended or implemented.
Legal and tax analysis
We analyse Danish law, tax authority practice, relevant foreign law inputs, treaty position where applicable and procedural options.
Strategy
We recommend whether to respond, appeal, seek a binding ruling, restructure, negotiate, settle, litigate, arbitrate or pause.
Execution
We draft the submission, ruling request, agreement, pleadings, transaction documents or advice memorandum.
Follow-through
We manage correspondence, authority questions, negotiation rounds, filings and next-step strategy until the matter is concluded or handed over.