HortenDahl is home to a team with ‘highly specialised knowledge and extensive experience in advising public authorities’. Highly active on behalf of Denmark’s municipalities, the team is adept at handling large public environmental projects, urban development projects, large scale infrastructure and matters surrounding legal definitions and the applicability to environmental matters. Henriette Soja is head of the team, and covers environmental law, planning law, construction law, and climate change law. Clients praise Soja as ’highly professional and competent’. Anne Sophie Kierkegaard Vilsbøll specialises in administrative law alongside environmental law, and uses this knowledge to advise on public infrastructure projects as well as litigation. Poul Hvilsted provides legal, strategic, and commercial support to the team and clients.
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Testimonials
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- ‘We experience a team that is readily available and consistently eager to engage in dialogue—whether the matter is straightforward or more complex. With solid professional expertise in planning and extensive experience, it is usually possible to receive a clear and well-founded response.’
- ‘Marie Bockhahn is highly specialised in her field. She cuts to the heart of the matter and provides solution-oriented and useful advice. She is skilled at communicating and making complex law understandable, and she is always aware of the practical context in which her advice is used.'
- ‘Horten's environmental law team is among the best in their field. The team has highly specialised knowledge and extensive experience in advising public authorities. They pay close attention to the client's needs, and the collaboration is characterized by good and effective communication and integrity. ’
- ‘Henriette Soja has delivered an exceptional service both in quality, speed and efficiency. Her contributions have probably saved us from a very expensive and demanding legal dispute. ’
- ‘Henriette Soja is highly professional and competent within the supply area. She is good at putting the right team together to solve the task. She is excellent at communicating difficult material and good at facilitating, so that common pragmatic solutions can be achieved.’
- ‘Horten is experienced in working with public sector clients and is therefore familiar with the issues specific to the public domain. This is an advantage when you, as a client, represent a public organisation.’
Key clients
- Norlys a.m.b.a
- TDC Net A/S
- Roulunds Energy ApS
- Nordic Solar A/S
- Solum Roskilde A/S
- Digets Fond
- Dansk Kvarts Industri A/S
- SWS A/S
- Ørsted A/S
- Teleindustrien
- Dakofa – Dansk Kompetencecenter for Cirkulær udvikling
- Ferskvandcenteret Kursus
Work highlights
Advised Favrskov Municipality in a matter concerning watercourse regulation and public authorities' liability for damages.
Advised on a large climate adaptation project for the Copenhagen area called the Harrestrup River Capacity Project.
Providing legal assistance to The City of Copenhagen in relation to the establishment of Lynetteholm.
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Practice head
Henriette Soja
Other key lawyers
Anne Sophie Kierkegaard Vilsbøll; Poul Hvilsted