Carl Erik Skovgaard

Partner
Carl Erik Skovgaard
Location
Aarhus
Language
English, German
Services

Carl Erik Skovgaard mainly works as a member of boards of business enterprises and deals with business transfers. 

Carl Erik has vast experience in preparing strategies as well as in management at both operational and tactical levels. 

He has a right of audience before the Danish Supreme Court and is a member of the Danish Management Society, VL-gruppe 35 (a management forum under the Danish Management Society). 

He is also a certified arbitrator and is often appointed as arbitrator in commercial-law disputes. 

Carl Erik has extensive experience in commercial law, company law and contract law. 

He provides consultancy services to boards of directors as well as executive boards in a broad range of Danish business enterprises, particularly large export companies with an international outlook. 

He is a preferred coordinator in turnaround processes and sales preparation processes. 

His several years of working as an attorney as well as an executive assistant and CEO at a large Danish export group have made him a skilled negotiator. 

Carl Erik has a wide network of contacts and profound knowledge of various parts of the Danish business sector. He is also Honorary Consul of Iceland in Aarhus and East Jutland. 

Qualifications
Education
Board chairman training course, Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences
2018
Admitted to the Danish Bar
1985
Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (Accounting and Financial Management)
1984
Master of Law, Aarhus University
1982
Memberships

Member of the Association of Danish Law Firms

Member of Danske Bestyrelsesadvokater (the Danish association of attorney board members) 

Member of Aarhus Advokatforening (the Aarhus bar association) 

Member of the Danish Management Society, VL-gruppe 35 (a management forum under the Danish Management Society)

Admissions
Right of audience before the Danish Supreme Court
1990
Right of audience before the Danish High Courts
1985
Experience
Recent highlights
  • Carl Erik participated in the turnaround process of By Lassen ApS spanning negotiations with financial creditors, strategy, board work as well as the final sale to Menu Designers Company | MENU. 
  • From 2012, Carl Erik was involved in the Board of Directors of R&D Engineering and dealt with intensive strategic work and sales preparation of the Group, concluding in a sale of the business to the US conglomerate MTS Group. 
  • Carl Erik participates in the Board of Directors of Autorola focusing on the Group’s international expansion and technological development involving the use of AI systems, where he has a particular focus on working capital and financing as well as on working procedures under different governance structures and financial regulatory frameworks on different markets. 
Career highlights

Partner, DLA Piper Denmark, since 2018 

Partner, Delacour Law Firm, 2003-2017 

CEO of GASA GROUP DANMARK A/S, 2000-2003 

Partner, Opstrup & Skovgaard, 1985-2000 

Positions of trust

Honorary Consul of Iceland in Aarhus and East Jutland 

Chairman and member of the boards of directors of more than 25 companies and groups. Since 1990, about half of his working time has therefore been spent on board work. 

Insights

Conversion from a limited liability cooperative to a public limited company – some practicalities (published in Danish only), Revision og Regnskabsvæsen (a Danish accounting periodical), no. 3, 1996