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
Greenland > Foreign firms
(Leading partners)Horten‘s Greenland desk team is led by Søren Hornbæk Svendsen and is noted for its expertise in the energy and infrastructure spaces, regularly advising on corporate issues, commercial matters and employment work in these industries. Svendsen is a go-to name for advice on energy projects, particularly those relating to Greenland’s green energy transition. Other key names include Lars Gregersen, who specialises in construction mandates; project specialist Christian Tullberg, and energy expert Klavs Gravesen
. The firm also closely cooperates with local Greenlandic firm Nuna Advokater to add further regional capabilities.
Denmark > Energy
(Leading partners)The energy and infrastructure team at Horten complements its long track record of assisting domestic utilities and power authorities with project mandates, with growing expertise in acting on cross-border renewable power transactions. Alongside practice head Christian Tullberg, who is a specialist in cross-border energy and infrastructure transactions, the team can draw upon the knowledge of Søren Hornbæk Svendsen, who has extensive experience advising on contracting and regulatory matters for landmark and strategic energy projects, and René Frisdahl Jensen, who is a notable authority on power, gas, and heat supply regulation. Klavs Gravesen remains a key adviser on government and municipal engagement in the energy sector.