Senior Digital Business Counsel
Jarl Phillip Kierulf Øster is Senior Practice Area Counsel in our Digital Business practice group, where he advises clients on technology, outsourcing, and transactions. His practice includes complex and business critical outsourcing projects, digital transformations, M&A transactions, commercial contracts, partnerships, dispute resolution, cybersecurity, and digital regulatory work.
Jarl is also part of our Fintech practice group. He has significant experience in advising clients in the financial sector, including payment service providers, banks, asset managers, pension funds, and insurance companies. Jarl has been involved in some of the largest technology- and infrastructure projects in the financial sector and has been on secondment as attorney to Nets Group (Nexi).
Jarl has previously been part of our Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions practice group, where we worked with corporate law, capital markets law, and M&A, including during a secondment as attorney to Novo Nordisk focusing on corporate governance and capital markets law.
Gorrissen Federspiel 2015 -
GN Store Nord 2026 (secondment)
Nets Group 2021 (secondment)
Novo Nordisk 2018 (secondment)
LEGO Group 2016 (secondment)
Information Security Certification (ISO/IEC 27001) 2026
Executive Education, Cambridge Judge Business School 2025
Executive Education, Columbia Business School 2021
Certified IT Attorney 2021
PRINCE2 Foundation Certification 2020
Admitted to the Danish Bar 2018
ITIL Foundation Certification 2016
Master of Laws, University of Copenhagen 2015
The University of Queensland 2013
London School of Economics and Political Science 2013
Danish English
"Practical Law Outsourcing Global Guide", Thomson Reuters 2019
"Outsourcing – Denmark", Chambers Global Practice Guides 2019
"Overtagelsestilbud – Bestyrelsesredegørelser i praksis", Nordisk Tidsskrift for Selskabsret 2015
"Overtagelsestilbud – Bestyrelsesredegørelser og interessekonflikter", Nordisk Tidsskrift for Selskabsret 2015
International Technology Law Association (Itechlaw)
World Commerce and Contracting Association
Copenhagen Fintech
Danish FSA Fintech Forum
Association of Danish IT Attorneys
Danish Society for Company Law