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DLA Piper Denmark

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DLA Piper Denmark offers the full scope of insurance-related services to its client base. The team is noted for its considerable expertise in W&I insurance matters and advising on multi-jurisdictional underwriting issues. Pernille Sølling comes highly recommended for her ‘outstanding understanding of insurance products and of the legal issues within’, with her practice emphasising life insurance and pension issues for major Danish pension providers. Sølling heads the department alongside Anders Tengvad who primarily advises insurance companies on issues relating to commercial and product liability insurance, D&O liability insurance, crime insurance, liability insurance and buildings and contents insurance. Georg Lett retired.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Pernille Sølling always renders advice at the very highest level and who has a unique understanding of our business.’

  • ‘Experts in insurance law and other related legislation. They are the best in Denmark.’

  • ‘The team is the strongest in Denmark when it comes to insurance and pensions. I always get fast and high-quality answers.’

  • ‘Pernille Sølling has a great deal of knowledge about insurance and pensions. She is pleasant to work with and always solves the tasks well.’

  • ‘The team is exceptional within life insurance and insurance technique and especially Pernille Sølling has an extraordinary understanding of actuarial science that no one else in the sector can match.

  • ‘Pernille Sølling's knowledge within life insurance, insurance technique and actuarial science is exceptional and has no match in the sector. She has an outstanding understanding of the insurance products and of the legal issues within.'

  • ‘DLA piper provides a professional service and always has the client's wishes in mind. There is always a focus on the commercial.’

  • ‘Pernille Sølling is diligent and knowledgeable, and her advice is always spot on even in highly complicated matters regarding pension contracts spanning decades. She is recognised as a sharp litigator, and she has a structured approach to matters.’

Key clients

  • Sampension
  • Danica Pension
  • Garantifonden
  • AP Pension
  • Risk Point A/S
  • Euclid Transactional
  • Chubb
  • AXA XL
  • AIG
  • PFA
  • ATP

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Pernille Sølling

Pernille Sølling

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Pernille Sølling has vast experience in a number of practice areas and focuses particularly on insurance and the law of damages as well as litigation and arbitration. Pernille is a leading expert within pension law and provides assistance to the major Danish pension companies. She advises on all aspects of insurance and pension law, including regulatory and contractual matters, disputes relating to coverage, insurance fraud, occupational pensions, financial issues as well as insurance conditions. Pernille has conducted a vast number of legal proceedings before the Danish courts. Her expertise encompasses arbitration proceedings, including before the Danish Building and Construction Arbitration Board. Moreover, Pernille has experience of conducting legal proceedings abroad. In addition, Pernille is an external examiner at the conduct-of-lawsuit test in the Danish junior-lawyer programme at the Association of Danish Law Firms. Pernille is recommended by Legal 500, Expert Guides and Who’s Who Legal Insurance & Reinsurance.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Anders Tengvad, Pernille Sølling

Other key lawyers

Jacob Thomsen