Mrs Henriette Soja > Horten > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile
Horten Offices
PHILIP HEYMANS ALLÉ 7
2900 HELLERUP
COPENHAGEN
Denmark
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Mrs Henriette Soja
Work Department
Environmental law, Public Law.
Position
Henriette Soja has been specialising in environmental law for many years and is among the leading attorneys in Denmark within this area of the law. She has thus advised in many leading cases within the areas of environmental, planning and construction law and has conducted negotiations and a large number of cases of general public importance within all the areas which are traditionally handled by the municipal technical administration and the municipal supply sector.
Henriette has many years’ experience in environmental due diligence projects, compliance programmes and risk management in private enterprises. She has represented municipalities and private enterprises in some of the largest environmental and construction cases in recent years and has carried out legal investigations within the areas of environmental, planning and construction law.
Henriette teaches on the assistant attorney programme and the special environmental law programme under Local Government Denmark (LGDK). Since 1998, she has been a part-time lecturer at the Copenhagen Business School in the subject damages and insurance and has earlier lectured on public law at the University of Copenhagen. Henriette performs comprehensive course and lecturing activities, including special courses for authorities and private enterprises concerning environmental, municipal and administrative law.
Career
Partner, Horten, 2006; Right of audience before the Supreme Court, 2001; Right of audience before the High Court, 1996
Languages
Scandinavian languages, English and German.
Memberships
Chairman of the Danish Environmental Law Society; Member of the board of the Environmental Committee of the Danish National Building Association; Member of the board of The Danish National League for Built Heritage and Landscape; Member of the association of Danish Environmental Lawyers.
Education
Master of Laws, the University of Copenhagen, 1988.
Lawyer Rankings
Denmark > Environment
(Leading individuals)Horten‘s specialist environmental group is praised as ‘adaptable and responsive to the client’s needs’ and provides legal advice on all areas of environmental regulation, including assisting with permits for business activities and construction projects, emission and pollution issues, natural resources work, climate change constructions, environment protection matters and planning instruments. Henriette Soja heads up the department and is sought after by clients for her specialist knowledge regarding environmental, planning and construction law, coast and climate change law and supply regulations and circular economies. Of counsel and highly experienced litigator Poul Hvilsted
is renowned for his expertise in environmental and planning law, and Anne Sophie Kierkegaard Vilsbøll is another key point of contact for public infrastructure projects, including the Copenhagen Metro.