Alexandre Latif Schleimann-Jensen

Partner
Alexandre Latif Schleimann-Jensen

Alexandre Latif Schleimann-Jensen provides advice on construction issues to owners in both the public and private sectors, Danish and international contractors, technical advisors and suppliers.

His experience extends to providing advice as well as conducting lawsuits and arbitration proceedings, including cases falling within the scope of the old and the new Danish systems of the General Conditions in the Danish construction industry and those within the scope of the international standard form contracts in the FIDIC Rainbow Suite.

In addition, Alexandre also advises on various issues relating to environmental law.

Qualifications
Education
FIDIC Contracts Management Training, London Premier Centre
2023
Admitted to the Danish Bar
2018
Master of Law, University of Copenhagen
2015
Memberships

Danske Miljøadvokater (Danish environmental lawyers)

Admissions
Right of audience before the Danish Supreme Court
2024
Experience
Recent highlights
  • Advisor to a company owned by a ministry in a major foreign government in connection with the construction of a cultural centre.
  • Advisor to a foreign contractor in connection with the manufacture, transportation and construction of transformer stations at an offshore wind farm and an interconnector for a submarine cable between Denmark and Germany.
  • Advisor to road haulage contractor on the contract for the transportation of excavated material in connection with the construction of metro stations and metro line to Sydhavn (a suburb of Copenhagen).
  • Advisor to the employer in a dispute concerning extension of time in a construction project in Copenhagen of approx. 27,000 sqm. with a contract sum of app. DKK 1bn.
  • Advisor to a contractor in various disputes about extension of time and extra works relating to two major prison projects.
  • Advisor to a municipality in a dispute about defects in lighting-control equipment and software for street lighting.
  • Advisor to a utility company in a dispute concerning liability for cable breakage.
Career highlights

Partner, DLA Piper Denmark, since 2025

Partner, Lundgrens, 2024-2025

Attorney, Director, Lundgrens, 2021-2024

Attorney, Bech-Bruun, 2018-2021

Assistant Attorney, Bech-Bruun, 2015-2018

Insights

"Protection of the External Environment (published in Danish only) (ongoing updating)", Karnov Erhvervsjura database, a commercial-law database operated by a leading provider of Danish legal tools, 2019-2023

”Long period of time and inactivity -  supervisory authorities’ forfeiting the right to enforce Danish environmental legislation”, Tidsskrift for Miljø, a Danish environmental-law periodical published (in Danish only) by Djøf Forlag, vol. 2/2018, page 49 et seq.

Enabling the Business of Agriculture: Comparing regulatory practices, World Bank Group, 2016.