Practice areas:
Energy and Infrastructure | Transactions and Contracts | Greenland Desk
Søren Hornbæk Svendsen has more than 15 years’ experience working as an adviser in and to
companies in the Energy Sector. Søren has special expertise assisting on the sale and purchase of
companies, wind farms, oil and gas licenses and other assets in the energy sector. Søren Hornbæk
Svendsen 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 in law firm and almost 10 years as General Counsel of DONG Energy and as
Corporate Counsel with industrial conglomerate FL Smidth.
Søren Hornbæk Svendsen is mentioned in the following international legal directories:
-‐ Legal 500 -‐ Energy
-‐ Chambers -‐ Energy
-‐ IFLR1000 -‐ Energy & infrastructure and Project development (Leading lawyer)
-‐ Who’s Who Legal -‐ Energy
-‐ Best Lawyers -‐ Energy Law
-‐ Expert Guides -‐ Energy and Natural Resources
CV
Career:
Partner, Horten, 2005
General Counsel and Senior Vice President, DONG Energy, 2001-‐2005
Corporate legal counsel, FL Smidth, 1996-‐2001
Admitted to the Danish bar, 1996
Attorney, Kromann Reumert Law Firm, 1993-‐1996
Education:
Programme for Executive Development (IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland), 2004
Magister iuris (Göttingen University, Germany), 1993
Master of Laws, University of Copenhagen, 1991
Positions of trust
Member of the Oil Gas Denmark Legal Committee
Member of the Board of the Danish Energy Law Association
Member of the Advisory Council to the Department of Energy Law at Oslo University
Member of the Committee for Energy and Climate Policy to the Organisation of Danish Industries
Member of the Advisory Board to the Centre for Enterprise Liability at Copenhagen University
Memberships:
International Bar Association
Danish Energy Law Association
Danish Gas Association
Deutsch‐Nordische Juristenvereinigung
Languages:
German | English | French