Christian Bülow
Christian Bülow specialises in insolvency law, restructuring, distressed enterprises (distressed M&A) and real estate. He advises on complex commercial-law issues involving financially distressed enterprises, major transactions and disputes.
Furthermore, Christian advises on real estate with a particular focus on the sale and purchase of commercial properties, property investments, project development and real-estate transactions.
Christian has a wealth of experience in administering large bankruptcy estates, restructuring proceedings and liquidations as well as in advising creditors, enterprises, owners, management teams and investors in financially stressful situations.
He also litigates commercial-law disputes, including proceedings concerning avoidance, management liability, compensation claims and other claims typically arising out of an enterprise's financial collapse.
Christian has been involved in some of the largest and most high-profile cases in Denmark and was previously seconded to the international law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York.
Partner, DLA Piper Denmark, since 2026
Partner, Poul Schmith/The Legal Advisor to the Danish Government, 2022-2026
Attorney, Poul Schmith/The Legal Advisor to the Danish Government, 2015-2021
Secondment, Hughes, Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, 2019
Assistant Attorney and Attorney, Accura Advokatpartnerselskab, 2013-2015
Assistant Attorney, Hannes Snellman Law Firm, 2011-2013
Lecturer in property law, University of Copenhagen, 2012-2015
Rising Star Partner, 2024 and 2025
- "The ECJ judgment in Geltl v Daimler – the impact on Danish capital market law” (published in Danish only), Erhvervsjuridisk Tidsskrift (a Danish commercial-law periodical), no. 1, 2014, pp 39-48
- "Assignment of IP licence agreements in business transfers” (published in Danish only), the Danish weekly law reports, 2012, p 300, U2012B.300
- "Applicability of sections 55 and 12o(1) in case of a football club insolvency” (published in Danish only), the Danish weekly law reports, 2011, p. 345, U2011B.345