Thomas Høj Pedersen
Thomas Høj Pedersen specialises in construction law and project development. He also has extensive experience in real-estate transactions.
At DLA Piper Denmark, Thomas provides in-house training on construction law for junior attorneys and assistant attorneys. Thomas is also an active member of DLA Piper’s Global Construction Group.
Thomas is recognised by The Legal 500 within ‘Real Estate and Construction’.
Thomas has vast experience of construction and consultancy law and has for 15+ years assisted various construction-industry players in drawing up and negotiating contracts as well as in risk management and the preservation of evidence.
Thomas also provides assistance relating to dispute resolution, including alternative dispute resolution methods such as mediation and conciliation.
Furthermore, he has conducted a large number of litigation and arbitration proceedings, survey proceedings and performance-bond-payment proceedings.
Moreover, Thomas specialises in project development and has, particularly in recent years, been involved in project development within new types of housing, such as shared living and senior citizen housing.
Thomas also has wide experience of real-estate transactions, having acted for a number of foreign as well as Danish property investors in the completion of sale and purchase processes, due diligence, negotiation, etc.
Thomas has studied in France at Université Jean Moulin III Lyon and holds an LLM from the University of San Diego. He has also worked as a mediator at the San Diego Court.
For a number of years, Thomas was a lecturer at Aarhus University, and he often teaches courses to construction-industry players on the preservation of evidence, the 2018 standard General Conditions within the Danish construction industry (AB 18), contract and claims management and dispute resolution.
Network within building and construction operated by JUC (a Danish legal training centre)
Networking group operated by Byens Ejendom (a Danish urban development knowledge centre)
The Danish National Association for Building
- Acting for several developers in connection with the development of shared-living residences in Denmark
- Acting for a developer in connection with a large hotel construction project in Copenhagen
- Acting for the owner in connection with the construction and handover of Copenhagen Royal Arena
- Acting for a property company in connection with the vendor due diligence and investor process relating to the company’s properties comprising more than 50,000 rental units situated in a number of Northern European countries
- Acting for a non-Danish investor in connection with the purchase of a large commercial property comprising approx. 25 commercial rental units situated in Denmark’s third-largest town Odense
- Acting for a non-Danish investor in connection with the acquisition of approx. 900 residential units in Copenhagen
- Acting for a non-Danish investor in connection with the acquisition of approx. 1,100 residential units in Denmark
- Acting for a non-Danish owner in connection with the individual sales of 25 commercial properties in Denmark
- Acting for a contractor in comprehensive arbitration proceedings of general public importance over the course of 6 years regarding delays, extra work, defects, professional liability, etc.
Partner, DLA Piper Denmark, since 2019
Attorney, DLA Piper Denmark, 2017-2019
Attorney, LETT (DLA Piper Denmark), 2016-2017
Attorney, Gorrissen Federspiel, 2010-2016
Assistant Attorney, Gorrissen Federspiel, 2007-2010
Member of the Board of Directors, W. Lynggaard Petersen Holding A/S, since 2024
Member of the Board of Directors, Murermester Willy Lynggaard Petersens Familiefond, since 2024
For a number of years, Thomas was a lecturer at Aarhus University, and he often teaches courses to construction-industry players on the preservation of evidence, the 2018 standard General Conditions within the Danish construction industry (AB 18), contract and claims management and dispute resolution.
Thomas is recognized by The Legal 500 within ‘Real Estate and Construction’.
"Thomas Høj Pedersen is direct, polite, correct and extremely proactive in all parts of the service that he provides. Always positive and with a good sense of humour. He is firm and humble."
"The team at DLA Piper is very skilled. they have a high level of knowledge -and they know how to use it. Within DLA Piper there is an expert for all potential questions and areas."
