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Alessandro Traina has more than 10 years’ experience advising on real estate, M&A, business leases and property development. Due to Alessandro’s international background growing up and studying abroad, his primary focus has been on assisting international clients with a large number of property transactions and negotiation of prominent high-street lease agreements. Alessandro’s in-depth knowledge of real estate and business leases implies that he has become a daily sparring partner to a large number of clients in relation to current asset management of property portfolios. In addition, Alessandro has established a special niche advising professional athletes in connection with their club transfers to/from Italy.

Andreas Christensen

Andreas Christensen is specialised in competition law, EU law, public procurement law and state aid. He was working comprehensively with those practice areas when being employed with the law department of the Ministry of Justice and subsequently as a lawyer. Andreas has considerable experience advising private and public and semi-public enterprises and has conducted a large number of litigation and arbitration cases within his areas of expertise. He has been involved in competition cases both as prosecuting attorney and defence attorney and is one of the lawyers having conducted most cases before the Complaints Board for Public Procurement. He has significant expertise within PPP and ESCO (Energy Service Company) and has advised on some of the first PPP projects and ESCO cooperation in Denmark. In addition, he has been member of the Government's state subsidy advisory group and has advised in connection with some of the principal state subsidy cases in the past 10 years. Andreas has lectured at e.g. the University of Southern Denmark and has been external lecturer at the Universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus as well as lectured at a number of universities abroad. He is also “Correspondent Editor for Denmark” for the recognised publication Bellamy & Child: European Community Law of Competition.

Anne Baandrup

Anne Baandrup specialises in personal data protection (GDPR) and advises on both the design and implementation of GDPR programmes and operational data protection issues. Anne Baandrup has experience as a Data Protection Officer (DPO) at the Danish telecommunications company TDC/Nuuday. Based on this experience she can serve as a DPO for clients who wish to outsource this function, and she can advise on setting up and performing the role for clients wishing to keep the function in-house. Anne Baandrup has a proven track record which includes successful management of large projects like GDPR, Enterprise Risk Management, and Regulatory Compliance. She advises on how to optimise structures, form effective teams, and collaborate at executive levels and with key stakeholders, consistently delivering tangible results. From her employment with TDC/Nuuday and her postgraduate B.Com. degree, she has a strong business and strategic understanding that enables her to find solutions in the intersection between data protection requirements, business and strategy. Through her certification as a Compliance Manager, Anne Baandrup also advises on the establishment of compliance programmes in general.

Anne Sophie Kierkegaard Vilsbøll

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.

Annelouise Dalgaard Pedersen

Annelouise Dalgaard Pedersen is specialised within procurement law and state aid. Annelouise has wide experience as an advisor to both public authorities and private companies. She has in-depth knowledge of supply utilities and of the practical and legal aspects characterising these companies.In addition, Annelouise is a certified Prince2 project manager, and she acts as project manager in often complex procedures with many players and stakeholders.Within procurement law, Annelouise advises on all aspects of the procurement rules and the related procedures. Her expertise ranges from preparation of tender and contract documents, carrying out of tender procedures to the handling of complaints (before the Complaints Board for Public Procurement) and contract management. Annelouise has wide experience in tender procedures concerning complex building and construction works that require special considerations both during the tendering and the execution phase. Within state aid, Annelouise advises municipalities, supply utilities and public and private companies on all aspects of state aid, including the existence of aid, the possibilities of (group) exemptions and the duty to notify. She has wide experience advising both public and private parties in a legal and political context.

Asger Heine Jensen

Asger Heine Jensen has extensive experience with commercialisation and enforcement of intellectual property rights. He advises foreign and Danish companies whose business revolve around IP rights on e.g. R&D matters, joint ventures, licensing, investment, private placements, M&A and transactional matters. He has extensive legal and commercial experience with respect to advising clients within the IT and Media and Entertainment segments, and his practice includes numerous computer game producers.Asger is an experienced litigator, and he has over the years represented numerous domestic and international clients in both IP and commercial litigations before arbitration courts and national courts, including the Supreme Court, as well as the European Court of Justice.

Birgitte Frølund

Birgitte Frølund is specialised within complex litigation concerning commercial and/or financial matters. She has many years' experience advising on financial matters, especially on insolvency and banks’ legal position in this respect. She also advises commercial undertakings on commercial and employment matters. In addition, she advises on succession, wills and estates.Birgitte has wide experience handling international cases and holds an MA from the University of Copenhagen as well as an LLM from King's College in London.In addition, Birgitte has extensive lecturing experience and currently teaches at the legal education on the code of legal ethics. Birgitte has been a member of the Disciplinary Board of the Danish Bar and Law Society since 2017.

Christian Tullberg

Christian Tullberg is specialised in general commercial law and energy law advising companies within and outside the energy business. As regards energy law, Christian has special expertise within contracts, transactions and regulatory affairs in the oil and gas industry. He further advises on contracts and transactions within renewable energy. From his previous employment as an attorney with A.P. Møller-Mærsk A/S, he has wide experience in international legal matters and transactions.

Christina Steen

Christina Steen has in-depth knowledge of damages and insurance in commercial disputes. Christina especially advises on disputes within Financial Lines (professional liability, liability of executives and board members and crime and cyber insurance). By virtue of her work with professional liability, Christina has dealt with a number of legal areas as the representation of lawyers, auditors and technical advisors touches on numerous areas. As Christina has been employed with both the insurance and the legal industry, she has wide experience drafting and interpreting insurance and policy conditions within a wide range of insurance products. Christina therefore often advises on questions concerning insurance cover and provides “legal reviews” in connection with the approval of insurance conditions.Christina is an experienced litigator before the Supreme Court.

Claus Bennetsen

Claus Bennetsen is specialised within banking and finance law. He has more than 20 years of experience advising banks, financial institutions and their customers about financing and reorganisation, including acquisition finance, financing of real estate portfolios and other major assets like windmills, and preparation of standard documentation.Claus has special knowledge of and wide experience in organisation of cross-border financial transactions. In addition, he advises Danish and international fund managers, investment funds and hedge funds on fund management, and he also advises on the regulation of the financial sector, including the formation and operation of investment companies.Claus also advises foreign groups' Danish subsidiaries and a number of manufacturing, service and commercial companies, which he has often assisted in connection with acquisition or formation.

Emil Spurr Madsen

Emil Spurr Madsen advises real estate investors on Real Estate M&A, real estate development, commercial lease contracts and general asset management. Emil has experience with dispute resolution and litigation, and he regularly acts as appointed counsellor for witnesses in public investigation commissions. In addition, Emil is experienced from corporate M&A, corporate law and commercial matters, such as ownership structures, shareholders’ agreements and other commercial contracts. Emil has an eye for balancing the interests of several stakeholders, and he strives to provide simple, practical and effective solutions which are sustainable in both the short and the long term.

Erik Wendelboe Christiansen

Erik Wendelboe Christiansen advises national and international enterprises, public authorities and organisations in public law, employment law, contract and tort law. He is an experienced litigator, having conducted many key cases within his areas of expertise for both businesses and public clients. Erik advises on all aspects of employment law with special focus on management and public sector employment. Erik has many years’ experience as advisor to public and semi-public enterprises and institutions concerning the special regulations governing public enterprises, administrative law and municipal law. Erik has authored a number of books and articles on employment law and public law issues and is an experienced lecturer.

Frans Rossen

Frans Rossen is engaged in national and international corporate acquisitions and provides advice on the preparation and implementation of corporate acquisitions, legal due diligence and related contracts. Frans is also admitted to the bar in Germany (Rechtsanwalt) and is specialised in advising Danish and German companies on Danish/German legal matters, in particular corporate acquisitions. In addition, he advises on general company law and contract law.

Hans Christian Pape

Hans Christian Pape advises domestic and international clients including public sector clients and PE funds on all matters relating to mergers and acquisitions, company law and equity capital markets. His involvement comprises all types of mergers and acquisitions, including leveraged acquisitions, mergers and demergers, joint ventures and other strategic alliances both domestically and cross-border.In addition to his legal career he has several years of professional experience as executive director in international sector leading companies within Branded Goods/FMCG.

Henriette Soja

Henriette Soja has been specialising in environmental law for many years and is among the leading attorneys in Denmark within this area of the law. She has thus advised in many leading cases within the areas of environmental, planning and construction law and has conducted negotiations and a large number of cases of general public importance within all the areas which are traditionally handled by the municipal technical administration and the municipal supply sector. Henriette has many years' experience in environmental due diligence projects, compliance programmes and risk management in private enterprises. She has represented municipalities and private enterprises in some of the largest environmental and construction cases in recent years and has carried out legal investigations within the areas of environmental, planning and construction law. Henriette teaches on the assistant attorney programme and the special environmental law programme under Local Government Denmark (LGDK). Since 1998, she has been a part-time lecturer at the Copenhagen Business School in the subject damages and insurance and has earlier lectured on public law at the University of Copenhagen. Henriette performs comprehensive course and lecturing activities, including special courses for authorities and private enterprises concerning environmental, municipal and administrative law.

Henrik Stig Lauritsen

Henrik Stig Lauritsen is head of Horten’s Taxes and Duties team. He advises on general taxes and duties and is specialised within company formation/acquisition, incentive programmes, taxation of principal shareholders, reorganisation and ownership transfers, litigation concerning taxes and duties, restructuring, relocation of employees and general corporate tax. Henrik has wide experience advising national and international enterprises and groups on tax matters.

Jakob Tingskov

Jakob Tingskov is specialised in dispute resolution and litigation. He has wide experience solving complex disputes and conducting cross-border litigation for both Danish and foreign clients. Jakob often represents banks and large companies in connection with commercial and property law disputes. In addition, he advises on tort law and has in-depth experience in insolvency law and often assists clients in disputes with bankruptcy estates. Jakob is an experienced advocate and regularly appears in court. He holds a right of audience before the Danish Supreme Court.

Jakob Krag Nielsen

Partner

Jan Bech

Partner

Jesper Petersen Bach

Jesper Petersen Bach is specialised within procurement law and strives to facilitate complicated procedures and always provide solution-oriented and useful advice. Throughout his career, Jesper has worked in both the private and public sector, including as head of a procurement division. Jesper has in-depth experience conducting procurement procedures for public contracting entities and has conducted numerous cases before the Complaints Board for Public Procurement, the courts and the Building and Construction Arbitration Board. Jesper’s areas of expertise include advice on procurement procedures within the area of construction, healthcare, harbours, supply, etc. Since 2009, Jesper has taught procurement law and construction law as an external lecturer at the University of Aarhus, including in connection with a course for elite students. Jesper also holds various courses on procurement on a regular basis.

Klavs Gravesen

Klavs Gravesen is specialised in energy law, supply law and municipal company law and has many years’ experience advising on issues relating to the interaction between the energy sector and the municipal sector. He advises municipalities and municipal communities and has since 2000 dealt especially with issues relating to privatisation of municipal companies and transactions in the supply area. Klavs was previously employed with the Ministry of Justice, the Law Department, including as Secretary to the Minister, and with the Legal Secretariat of the Danish Parliament. He therefore has in-depth knowledge of the legislative process. Klavs has been a partner at Horten since 1998. He has been a teacher for many years at the University of Copenhagen in contract law, the law of obligations and consumer law.

Lars Lüneborg

Lars Lüneborg is specialised within banking and finance law and has substantial international experience from working several years in the City of London. He has acted for both lenders and borrowers/sponsors and he has gained commercial insight from a secondment to a major investment bank in London. Lars advises on a wide range of areas within banking and finance - primarily on national and international transactions involving syndicated loans, leveraged finance, financial restructuring and general corporate finance. Lars has substantial experience in drafting and negotiating loan agreements, intercreditor agreements and security documents and in complex project management across jurisdictions. Lars also provides advice on general company law.

Lars Gregersen

Lars Gregersen advises on contracts and conducts legal and arbitration proceedings especially within matters pertaining to construction law and tort law. He has assisted a full-service consultant in connection with the largest arbitration proceedings so far before the Building and Construction Arbitration Board. For more information, please see: Over the years, Lars has conducted numerous large arbitration proceedings for both consultants, contractors and owners. Lars is a very experienced advocate in all forums. He also has wide experience advising and conducting litigation on behalf of public authorities on the above issues. Lars is an experienced lecturer at JUC and Byens Ejendom, and he holds a number of courses each year concerning issues pertaining to construction and insurance law. In addition, Lars was previously an external lecturer at the Aarhus School of Business/the University of Aarhus, and he is the author of “Guarantees within construction law”, 2013.

Line Markert

Line Markert advises on the legal relations of municipalities, the special matters concerning municipal companies and municipal company law. She especially advises on questions relating to the interface between public handling of assignments and commercial activities. Line is specialised in advising energy and supply utilities and municipally owned companies, e.g. municipally owned harbours. The advice covers companies’ regulatory framework and advice to and sparring with the daily management and the board of directors, for instance based on her own expertise as board member.Line has special expertise within realisation of complex projects, for instance development projects, inter-municipal climate adaptation projects, establishment of cooperation within the supply area and restructuring of municipally owned harbours.

Lise Lotte Hjerrild

Lise Lotte Hjerrild is specialised in M&A. She advises a number of Danish and foreign companies on all M&A, capital markets and company law matters. Since 1997, Lise Lotte has led a large number (+100) of private and public M&A transactions, including cross-border purchases and sales of companies, mergers and demergers of listed companies, listings and delistings, take-over bids, structured auction processes and investments in Danish and foreign companies. Further, she has a unique experience in privatisations, especially of airports, energy companies and other utilities, and in worldwide group restructurings. Internationally, Lise Lotte is regularly speaking on M&A and Corporate Governance topics. Further, Lise Lotte is an Officer of ABA’s International M&A and Joint Venture Committee. In addition, Lise Lotte is Vice Chair of IBA’s Women Lawyer’s Interest Group and Counsellor of IBA’s Legal Practice Division.Lise Lotte was awarded the Women in Law Awards 2017 in acknowledgement of her outstanding legal expertise and contribution within the practice area of Corporate Governance.

Marie Løvbjerg

Director, Attorney

Michael Neumann

Michael Neumann specialises in real estate and construction law. He has many years of experience advising Danish and international companies as well as public companies and authorities within the fields of purchase/sale of real estate, development projects, construction, rent law, business leases and property financing. He is an experienced litigator and has conducted many important cases within his field of expertise. Other areas of expertise include environmental law, company law, contracts, M&A. Michael is also an experienced lecturer and teacher.

Michael Gregersen

Michael Gregersen primarily advises on insolvency and finance law. He is part of the Finance & Leasing team and provides advice to Foreningen om Finansierings- og Leasingforhold (the association of finance and leasing). In addition, he conducts litigation and debt collection cases for a number of the association’s members who are among the largest financing and leasing companies in Denmark.

Nicolai Thornemann

Partner

Niels Jørgen Oggesen

Niels Jørgen Oggesen is specialised within construction law and has more than 10 years’ experience advising Danish and international parties in relation to construction projects. Niels Jørgen therefore has expertise within all aspects of construction law.Niels Jørgen often represents parties in disputes before the Building and Construction Arbitration Board and before the ordinary courts. He also has expertise within guarantee calls.Finally, Niels Jørgen has considerable experience in negotiating major international FIDIC based contracts.

Piya Mukherjee

Piya Mukherjee is head of Horten’s insolvency and restructuring group. She is specialised in insolvency law and has more than 25 years’ experience in restructuring and winding up of ailing commercial enterprises. Piya advises Danish and foreign creditors with impaired exposures and provides legal advice to corporate management in connection with analysing financial difficulties experienced by commercial enterprises, drafting proposals for restructuring or winding up, carrying through restructuring and advising on directors’ liability. Piya has many years’ experience in formal insolvency proceedings and often acts as trustee in connection with administration of insolvent estates and as liquidator in connection with compulsory dissolution of companies.

Poul Hvilsted

Poul Hvilsted manages legal, strategic and commercial advice to Danish and international public and private sector organisations on regulatory and business issues.In the context of general business and contract law practise Poul has had a particular focus on the body of regulatory law and concession enterprise, including life/pension insurance law and insurance arrangements for the labour market. Further, he advises on and negotiates commercial contracts, including transactional agreements. Poul possesses a particular expertise in the negotiation of procurement contracts concerning military and security material and in the Danish and international regulation of military equipment and dual-purpose products. The broad commercial and business experience forms the basis for Poul advising on general or specific compliance programs. Poul municipalities and public enterprises on matters relating to public law and administrative law and especially environmental law and planning legislation.In his career, Poul started out as a litigation lawyer. He is an experienced advocate and has conducted several cases before the Danish courts, including a substantial number of high-profile and leading cases. He has also been involved in a number of international arbitration and legal proceedings in for instance the USA, Great Britain and Thailand. Poul is a skilled arbitrator and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators which is an international centre of excellence for the practice and profession of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). He accepts appointments in both national and international arbitral matters as both sole arbitrator or member of the panel.

René Frisdahl Jensen

René Frisdahl Jensen is specialised within energy and supply law and has more than 17 years' experience within the area. He has in-depth knowledge of the regulations within electricity supply, supply of natural gas and heat, remote cooling, waste management and the water sector. He has wide experience in revenue and price adjustment of energy and supply utilities and company conversion and restructuring. He further advises on the establishment of wind parks, solar energy plants and biogas systems.René conducts cases before the courts and complaint boards within energy and supply and further advises on EU law and international legal relations in the energy and supply sector. René has previously been employed as a commercial and energy counsellor at the Permanent Representation of Denmark to the European Union in Brussels and as a special consultant at the Danish Energy Agency.

Rikke Søgaard Berth

Rikke Søgaard Berth is specialised in the special regulatory set-up applying to public authorities and publicly owned companies. Rikke advises on the organisation of public assignments, including the cooperation with private parties. She has been responsible for the merger of utility companies, for instance the establishment of HOFOR in Copenhagen, municipal emergency services and various public-private co-operation supporting culture and sports. She has advised on the establishment of the Tinderbox Festival in Odense and on the consortium between the Danish state and five municipalities responsible for the Tour de France in Denmark if the Danish bid to host the event in 2021 is accepted. In addition, Rikke advises on the rules of administrative law, questions concerning authority, local government mandate, governance and other issues relating to public law. In 2017-2018 Rikke was a member of the government’s external expert committee on the Harbour Act and of the committee on expropriation under the Planning Act. Finally, Rikke is responsible for Horten’s strengthening of its efforts on the state market. Rikke has wide experience in working within a politically managed organisation from her former employment with the Ministry of Justice, and she holds a BA in political science. She is co-author of a book on municipal public limited companies (2009), and she has lectured at the University of Copenhagen since 2003 where she is now an external examiner.

Sophus Bøgeskov Christensen

Sophus Bøgeskov Christensen conducts litigation and arbitration, including institutional as well as ad hoc arbitration.In this connection, he represents insurance companies and foreign clients.Sophus is a leading adviser within all problems relating to operation, transfer and dispute resolution within the horse and veterinarian industry, including contract drafting and dispute resolution.Further, he is a certified arbitrator before Danish and international arbitration tribunals, and he is also qualified to act as arbitrator.In 2003, Sophus was a deputy judge at the Western High Court.From 2003-2012, he was part-time lecturer in Procedure at the University of Aarhus and tutor for the University’s team in the international arbitration competition Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.Sophus has been appointed by the Council of the Danish Bar and Law Society as external examiner at the bar exam.

Søren Hornbæk Svendsen

Søren Hornbæk Svendsen has more than 15 years' experience working as an adviser to companies in the Energy Sector. Søren has special expertise assisting on the sale and purchase of companies, wind farms, oil and gas licences and other assets in the energy sector. Søren also has extensive experience negotiating and drafting energy sector contracts and handling regulatory matters in the energy sector. Søren has experience from and understands the challenges of both sides of the table – from his more than 15 years with law firms and almost 10 years as General Counsel of DONG Energy and as Corporate Counsel with the industrial conglomerate FLSmidth.

Tanja Lykke Stougaard

Tanja Lykke Stougaard has wide experience within insolvency and finance law. Tanja primarily advises on financing of chattels, including leasing and credit law questions. In addition, Tanja has in-depth experience in debt collection and has conducted numerous legal proceedings within insolvency and finance law.

Thomas Booker

Thomas Booker advises on Danish and international tax law, restructuring, group taxation and tax consolidation and formation of holding companies. Thomas also conducts litigation within tax law before the ordinary courts and the administrative authorities, including the National Tax Tribunal. Thomas is specialised within taxation of real estate and advises major property owners in Denmark on property tax etc.

Thomas Francis Beckett

Thomas Francis Beckett’s practice area is M&A transactions and private equity related investments. He advises on formation and structuring of private equity funds, venture capital and infrastructure related funds. Thomas is a seasoned, commercial deal-maker and has led a large number of transactions of all types and sizes, Danish and cross-border, involving private equity- and corporate clients. He advises a broad range of Danish and international clients, investment banks, private equity funds and financial institutions.

Thomas Krucov Jensen

Thomas Krucov Jensen primarily advises on real estate, including purchase, sale and financing of real estate, lease agreements, rent legislation, environmental law and construction law. Thomas advises Danish and international enterprises, a number of municipalities and municipal communities. He has a thorough knowledge of the real estate business and the building sector as well as of public regulations in this area. Thomas has advised in connection with purchase of business properties and real estate portfolios in Denmark and abroad, including limited partnership projects. Thomas has participated as adviser in a large number of open tender procedures and is also experienced in drafting tender documents regarding leases, drafting of lease agreements and legal advice in connection with rent and lease disputes.

Troels Tuxen

Troels Tuxen has extensive experience advising Danish and international clients in insolvency, restructuring and dispute resolution matters. He serves as an administrator in bankruptcies for both small and large companies and act as an estate administrator in reorganization proceedings, out-of-court suspension of payment procedures and creditor arrangements. In addition, he advises clients in different insolvency situations and on general commercial matters, e.g. company law issues, and acts as an adviser for boards of directors and management of distressed companies. As a member of the board of companies he has been part of the development of several successful businesses and later sale hereof. Being an experienced litigator, Troels has conducted numerous court cases concerning insolvency and property law issues. For more than 20 years, he has been a representative in international coorperations of law- and accounting firms, mainly in Northern Europe, through INSOL Europe and the informal network of Global Restructuring and Insolvency Professionals.

Ulrik Holsted-Sandgreen

Ulrik Holsted-Sandgreen provides legal and strategic advice to Danish and international companies. Furthermore, Ulrik is a member of the board of directors of several Danish companies, including listed companies.He has wide expertise in advising on financial restructuring and turnaround, and he advises companies and banks on bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings and non-performing loans. Ulrik has been appointed trustee and restructuring administrator of many companies. Ulrik also advises on the purchase of assets and activities from distressed companies (distressed M&A).Ulrik holds a right of audience before the Supreme Court and has conducted many fundamental cases before the High Courts and the Supreme Court.

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