Mrs Anne Sophie Kierkegaard Vilsbøll > Horten > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile
Horten Offices
PHILIP HEYMANS ALLÉ 7
2900 HELLERUP
COPENHAGEN
Denmark
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Mrs Anne Sophie Kierkegaard Vilsbøll
Work Department
Environmental law, planning law and construction law
Position
Anne Sophie Kierkegaard Vilsbøll advises public authorities and organisations and public and private enterprises on all aspects of administrative law, public law and environmental law. She is an experienced litigator and conducts cases for committees and commissions within her areas of expertise for both businesses and public clients. Anne Sophie has many years’ experience advising municipalities on fundamental administrative issues, including preparation of legal opinions and investigations. She also gives more specialised advice to technical and environmental administrations on issues pertaining to planning, construction and environmental law. She has a special interest in public regulation of real estate, including easements and the so-called “neighbour principle” for laying cables along public and private roads, where Anne Sophie has conducted a number of leading cases. Anne Sophie has assisted in environmental due diligence procedures and advised on environmental issues in connection with many of the largest business transfers during the past ten years.
Career
Right of audience before the Supreme Court, 2021
Partner, Horten, 2016
Attorney, Bech-Bruun, 1998-2016
Deputy judge, the Eastern Danish High Court, 2005 and 2007
Right of audience before the High Court, 1998
Assistant Attorney, Bech-Bruun, 1995-1998
Languages
Scandinavian languages, English and French.
Memberships
Board memberships and positions of trust:
The Danish Bar and Law Society (alternate)
Arkivar Albert Andersen og hustru Ebba, født Graeffs legat (scholarship)
The church council at Hellerup Church, deputy chairman
Memberships
Danske Miljøadvokater (the Danish Environmental Law Society)
The Danish Association for Environmental Law
Foreningen for Kommunal- og Forvaltningsret i Danmark (the association of municipal and administrative law in Denmark)
Education
1995: Master of Laws, The University of Copenhagen
Lawyer Rankings
Denmark > Environment
(Next Generation Partners)Horten‘s specialist environmental group is praised as ‘adaptable and responsive to the client’s needs’ and provides legal advice on all areas of environmental regulation, including assisting with permits for business activities and construction projects, emission and pollution issues, natural resources work, climate change constructions, environment protection matters and planning instruments. Henriette Soja heads up the department and is sought after by clients for her specialist knowledge regarding environmental, planning and construction law, coast and climate change law and supply regulations and circular economies. Of counsel and highly experienced litigator Poul Hvilsted
is renowned for his expertise in environmental and planning law, and Anne Sophie Kierkegaard Vilsbøll is another key point of contact for public infrastructure projects, including the Copenhagen Metro.