Anders Amstrup Fournais joined Hafnia Law Firm in 2012 after graduating from law school and was admitted to the Danish bar in 2015. Anders earned the right of audience before the High Courts in 2015 and the Supreme Court in 2020, and he became a partner in 2021.

 Anders’ main practice areas are dispute resolution and shipping & trading. Anders is an active litigator and thrives with complex, multi-jurisdictional litigation and international arbitration. He has been instructed on more than 100 English arbitration cases acting for Danish and foreign clients. Anders also act as counsel in international arbitration cases proceeding under the Rules of the Nordic Maritime and Offshore Association (NOMA) and has successfully obtained several NOMA arbitration awards that have become published in recent years.

 Anders leads the firm’s sanctions compliance desk acting for banks and other financial institutions as well as shipping and trading clients. Anders provides legal advice on sanctions compliance and handles disputes and investigations for clients faced with allegations of sanctions breaches. Anders is one of the most knowledgeable Danish lawyers when it comes to sanctions.

 Anders has cutting-edge experience acting for companies that trade in marine fuel products, energy and other commodities.

• Legal advice on compliance with international trade sanctions and export controls (EU, UK and US law)

• Litigation before Danish courts

• Acting as counsel and arbitrator in Danish and international arbitration, English arbitration and Swedish arbitration

• Ship sale and purchase, finance, brokering, management and agency

• Charterparties

• Arrest of ships and other assets and enforcement proceedings

• 2024-: Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists – Danish Chapter (board member)

• 2018-2022: YoungShip Denmark (chairman and founder)

• 2013-2017: Moot Clinic (founder)

• The Danish Law and Bar Society

• The Danish Branch of Comité Maritime International (CMI)

• The Danish Arbitration Association

• Copenhagen Young Lawyers Association

• The International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA)

• YoungShip Denmark

• Danish chapter, Enforcement of Jugdments, Awards & Deeds in Commercial Matters, edited by Carel J. H. van Lynden, Sweet & Maxwell, 2013 (co-author)

• A paradigm shift in administration of justice’s approach to involvement of Experts, Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen 2012B.498 (co-author)

• Conflicts over priority of claims in ships, The Danish Maritime and Commercial Court 150 Years, Karnov Group Denmark, 2011 (co-author)

• Danish and the other Scandinavian languages

• English

• 2021-: Partner, Hafnia Law Firm

• 2015-2020: Attorney-at-Law, Hafnia Law Firm

• 2012-2015: Pro Bono Counsel, Copenhagen Legal Aid

• 2012-2015: Assistant Attorney, Hafnia Law Firm

• 2013-: Founder and organizer, Moot Clinic

• 2016-2017: External Lecturer in Legal Risk Management (Maritime Law), University of Southern Denmark

• 2012-2014: External Lecturer in European and International Commercial Law, University of Copenhagen
  

• 2012: Cand.jur. (Master of Laws), University of Aarhus

• 2011: Honorable mention and finalist, Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitation Moot

• 2010: Legal studies, Vrije University, Amsterdam