About
I’m Olav Balslev, and I’ve been providing quality, specialized translation and interpretation services for the best part of two decades.
Communication, and therefore language, makes the world go round.
In the legal, financial and insurance worlds, there’s often no room for error.
Accuracy is everything, and miscommunications can cost a company dearly.
Olav Balslev
Born in Los Angeles to a Danish father and Indian mother and having lived in the USA, Denmark, Germany, France and India, it was as if languages were destined to be my vocation.
With my unique cultural understanding of the Danish, German and US markets, I help people all over the world communicate flawlessly, through both translation and interpreting.
They say a translator should only ever work into their native language.
Fortunately, I have two.
I’m entirely bilingual both in Danish and English.
As well as translating between my two native languages, I also work into them from German and Swedish.
On top of that, I speak French, Bengali, Hindi, Spanish, Russian and basic Mandarin.
A digital nomad, I split my time between Europe and India.
Education:
- European Master’s Degree in Conference Interpreting (Danish, English, German), Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, May 2004
- Master of Arts Degree, Music Performance, Royal Danish Conservatory of Music, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1994-1999
- Music and Language Studies, Paris, France, 1996-1997
- Bachelor of Arts Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, 1992-1993
- Bachelor of Science Program, Department of Mathematics, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 1991-1992
Trusted partner of Willis Towers Watson – Denmark’s leading pension broker company.
Sole provider of linguistic services to legal firm Carsted Rosenberg, Frankfurt am Main.
“Mr. Balslev has solid expertise in the translation of corporate and financial documentation in the context of financial law transactions with a firm grasp of the required specialist vocabulary and linguistic nuances.
He is recognized as a leading expert on corporate finance translations and regularly acts for international and domestic banks, financial institutions, private equity funds and corporates on transactional and compliance translation engagements.”
He is recognized as a leading expert on corporate finance translations and regularly acts for international and domestic banks, financial institutions, private equity funds and corporates on transactional and compliance translation engagements.”
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