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Bech-Bruun has ‘excellent knowledge of legal issues within the environmental, waste and public sector’. Svend Paludan-Müller advises on mergers between municipality-controlled waste management companies. Group leader Jens Auken advises the Copenhagen Metro on environmental issues regarding its construction and its extension from 2007-2018. The group also advises Copenhagen Port in respect of the continued redevelopment of the port areas. Mads Kobberø ‘is in a league of his own when it comes to presenting legal analysis to a political board’.
Horten’s ‘extremely effective’ environmental team, headed by Poul Hvilsted, Mogens Moe and Henriette Soja, handles environmental due diligence, risk assessment, compliance and environmental litigation. Clients include the municipality of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Port, NCC and Construction Danmark. In 2008, the team was strengthened by Charlotte Bigum Lynæs from the European Federation of Waste Management and Environmental Services in Brussels.
At Lett Law Firm, the ‘first-rate’ Vivi Bruhn Knudsen provides businesses, insurance companies, energy companies, and public authorities with ‘top-level, professional service’. The team was boosted by Pia Nielsen’s arrival from the Danish Environmental Protection Agency. The firm played an active part in Denmark’s implementation of the Environmental Liability Directive. Clients include Royal Dutch Shell, AIG, DSB (Danish State Railways), Novo Nordisk and Novozymes.
Well-respected litigator and environmental law specialist Håkon Djuurhus heads a five-lawyer team at Lind Cadovius, strengthened in 2008 by the addition of two lawyers from Poul Schmith Law Firm.
‘Highly experienced’ Birgitte Refn Wenzel at Mazanti-Andersen, Korsø Jensen & Partnere is former chairman of the Danish Association of Environmental Law.
Leading environmental litigator Søren Stenderup Jensen leads Plesner’s eight-lawyer team, focusing on specialised aspects of environmental law, notably life sciences and chemicals. In 2008, the group advised DONG Energy in connection with its deferred IPO. The firm represents Danish clients and municipalities and international clients Novartis Healthcare, Kuwait Petroleum and Shell Danmark.
Kim Trenskov at Kromann Reumert heads a four-lawyer team which advises Carlsberg on breweries in Denmark and abroad. In 2008 it advised Danisco on environmental legal issues in connection with the sale of its flavour division, and DONG Energy on the purchase of shares in Elsam. It is assisting DONG Energy in a Supreme Court case about wind turbine farms and representing a group of municipalities in a High Court case regarding the Danish waste charge legislation.
Lassen Ricard advises on collective schemes relating to the collection and treatment of waste within the electricity industry.
Philip Law Firm focuses on the energy and agriculture sectors. The ‘experienced and commercial’ Mogens Gaarden acts for Danish Agriculture.
Stig Grønbæk Jensen, a partner at Poul Schmith Law Firm, represents the Danish state and commands market-wide respect.