Mr Klavs Gravesen > Horten > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile
Horten Offices
PHILIP HEYMANS ALLÉ 7
2900 HELLERUP
COPENHAGEN
Denmark
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Mr Klavs Gravesen
Work Department
Energy and Supply Law, Public Law. Regulatory.
Position
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.
Career
Partner, Horten, 1998; Right of audience before the High Court, 1991; Admitted to the Danish bar, 1989.
Languages
Scandinavian languages and English.
Memberships
Chairman of the board, Archiland A/S; Member of the board of Høeg-Guldbergske Familiefond; Member of the board of the Association of Danish Law Firms; Member of the expert committee on energy and supply law of the Association of Danish Law Firms; Member of the Danish Bar and Law Society’s panel of experts concerning administrative law, planning law, environmental law and energy law; Member of the Danish Energy Association.
Education
King’s College London, 1988-1989; Master of Laws, the University of Copenhagen, 1985.
Lawyer Rankings
Denmark > Energy
(Hall of Fame)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.