Jacob Skude Rasmussen

Professional profile

Jacob Skude Rasmussen has a broad practice that covers high-profile commercial disputes and business crime. He is frequently appointed as arbitrator and has experience sitting as arbitrator under national and international rules. Jacob also advises on international public law.

Jacob Skude Rasmussen qualified for the Bar in 2009, gained right of audience before the High Court in 2012 and gained right of audience before the Supreme Court in 2017. He has been a partner at Gorrissen Federspiel since 2015. He is a former Senior Adviser at the legal service of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is also certified mediator and serves as an Advisory Board Member on the Danish Institute of Arbitration's Committee on Maritime Disputes.

In addition, Jacob Skude Rasmussen has a broad legal authorship, which includes a number of articles and chapters in text books on dispute resolution and professional negligence. Jacob is also a frequent speaker at legal events as well as an examiner and former assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen.

Significant cases
Jacob Skude Rasmussen has acted as advocate in some of the most comprehensive, complex, high-profile and high-value court and arbitral cases in Denmark, primarily acting for major financial institutions, and international energy and shipping companies. Jacob has also acted as defence counsel in high-profile business crime cases.

Career and education

Career

Partner, Gorrissen Federspiel since 2015
Gorrissen Federspiel 2011 -
Senior Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Department for International law 2009 - 2011
Gorrissen Federspiel 2008 - 2009
Deputy head of mission, Royal Danish Embassy, Bucharest 2006 - 2008
Head of section, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Department for International Law 2004 - 2006

Education

Right of audience before the Danish Supreme Court 2017
Admitted to the Danish Bar 2009 
Master of Laws, University of Copenhagen 2005
LL.M., Lund University 2004

Language

English

Ratings

Jacob Skude Rasmussen is rated in Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, Legal 500 and is listed in Who's Who Legal as a future leader for partners in litigation.

Publications

Chapter on virtual hearings in the book Digital Hearings - civil procedure and arbitration
Søloven, 5th edition (a commentary on Danish maritime law with Peter Appel, Jens V Mathiasen and Jesper Martens)
The Dispute Resolution Review, 9th, 10th and 11th editions, Denmark chapter
The Professional Negligence Law Review, 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions, Denmark chapter
Locked Out of Heaven: The Air Greenland Case and Extraordinary Circumstances in the anthology from lowlands to high skies (with Morten Lundqvist Jakobsen)
“In the European Union we Trust?” in Stockholm Studies in Democratic Theory no. 2/2006
“A Law & Economics Analysis of the WTO Dispute Settlement System” in the anthology “Transferring Technology to Developing Countries”
“Det Økonomiske og Sociale Udvalg og Regional-udvalget”, Chapter 49 in EU-Karnov 2003
"Direkte virkning i trekantsrelationer i lyset af CIA og Unilever” in Justitia no. 5/2002
Lexology GTDT: Market Intelligence – Shipping

Memberships and Activities

Memberships

International Bar Association (IBA)
Danish Arbitration Association
Comité Maritime International (CMI), Danish Branch
The Supreme Court Bar

Activities

Member of various boards
Advisory Board Member of the Danish Institute of Arbitration's Committee on Maritime Disputes 2016 –
External examiner, University of Copenhagen 2012 -
External lecturer in European and International Commercial Law, University of Copenhagen 2008 – 2010
Teaching assistant of EU law, University of Copenhagen 2005 – 2006
Teaching assistant of Public International Law, University of Copenhagen 2005 – 2006, 2010