Mr Søren Hornbæk Svendsen > Horten > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile
Horten Offices
PHILIP HEYMANS ALLÉ 7
2900 HELLERUP
COPENHAGEN
Denmark
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Mr Søren Hornbæk Svendsen
Work Department
Energy and Supply Law, German Desk, Corporate and Commercial.
Position
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.
Career
Partner, Horten, 2005; General Counsel and Senior Vice President, DONG Energy, 2001-2005;
Corporate legal counsel, FLSmidth, 1996-2001
Languages
Scandinavian languages, German, English and Dutch.
Memberships
Member, The Oil Gas Denmark Legal Committee; Chairman, The Board of the Danish Energy Law Association; Member, The Advisory Council to the Department of Energy Law at Oslo University; Member, The Committee for Energy and Climate Policy to the Organisation of Danish Industries; Member, The Advisory Board to the Centre for Enterprise Liability at Copenhagen University; International Bar Association; Danish Energy Law Association; Danish Gas Association; Deutsch-Nordische Juristenvereinigung
Education
Programme for Executive Development (IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland) 2004: Magister iuris (Göttingen University, Germany) 1993: Master of law, 1991, the University of Copenhagen.
Lawyer Rankings
Denmark > Energy
(Leading individuals)Horten‘s energy and infrastructure practice advises on regulatory issues, financings, transactions, and disputes across the energy, utilities, and infrastructure spaces. The group also has broad expertise throughout the renewable energy sector, particularly relating to solar power and PV developments. Christian Tullberg has specialist knowledge in cross-border transactions and renewable energy projects spanning the wind and solar industries; he is also active in oil and gas work. Søren Hornbæk Svendsen advises on M&A transactions, project developments, and the sale and purchase of energy assets; while Klavs Gravesen
is involved in utility issues and assists government and municipality-owned companies; and René Frisdahl Jensen has in-depth knowledge of power supply, gas and heating regulations.