Horten is a full-service law firm with 350 specialists, all willing to take on new challenges, explore risks and identify opportunities with our clients.
Horten is a full-service law firm with 350 specialists, all willing to take on new challenges, explore risks and identify opportunities with our clients.
Founded in 2011
50 people in their team
The insurance industry is characterised by increased competition both nationally and internationally, and the industry is facing still increasing regulation in a large number of areas.
This raises the bar for product development and handling of compliance issues, and new cooperation forms and consolidations, both in Denmark and across borders, also result in new legal challenges.
To ensure profitability, increasing demands are made on companies' organisation and claims handling, and efficient and professional claims handling is an important competitive parameter, not least in liability cases.
Horten knows the business and its terms, and we provide top-level advice both in connection with transactions, transfers of portfolios, regulatory affairs, claims and disputes.
Our team consists of lawyers with strong skills within tort law and insurance, and we are likely to be the law firm in Denmark conducting most legal and arbitration proceedings concerning damages and insurance.
In the regulatory area, we have a unique position established through many years' advice in the public sector, and we are thus able to offer top level advice in relation to compliance, including processing of personal data, the provisions of the Financial Business Act, and on the special regulatory affairs applicable to transactions, transfers of portfolios, outsourcing and co-operation.
We advise Danish and international insurance companies, pension providers, insurance brokers and agents, public authorities, companies and financial institutions.
We advise on all aspects of real estate, including complex real estate transactions, property development, asset management including lease law.
Our team is highly experienced in advising Danish and international institutional investors, private equity funds and property developers within transactions on the Danish property market.
With our strategic approach, we provide practical, value-generating and sustainable solutions to our clients. We are actively involved in each case and work closely with our specialists from other areas of expertise, such as tax, mortgage and bank financing, regulatory, public tenders, competition law and construction law.
As a client with Horten, all your debt may be collected in one place. Our experience and expertise within debt collection means that we can handle all types of assignments within debtor management. Irrespective of whether it is a claim for money, whether the claim is secured, e.g. by way of a floating company charge, mortgage on real estate or a chattel mortgage.
Horten has a large and experienced employment and labour law team. Our expertise includes all areas within both individual agreements and collective agreements, and we have significant experience as litigators.
We have wide experience as an adviser to foreign companies. We know the special conditions and terms of Danish employment law which often cause problems to foreign companies having employees in Denmark. We often hold conferences on Danish employment and labour law in e.g. the UK and the Scandinavian countries, and we have a strong network with employment and labour law lawyers all over the world. We cooperate closely with experts in Norway, Sweden and Finland, with whom we arrange annual conferences on Scandinavian employment law.
We understand the various aspects of employment law and base our legal advice on a commercial, strategic and long-term perspective. We advise on all levels of the organisation and tailor our advice to the specific situation.
Employment and labour law affects all areas of both the business community and the public sector. We have therefore established thorough knowledge of a large number of business sectors and industries.
Our experts have written numerous books on a wide variety of employment law issues.
Horten’s clients can be sure to receive advisory services that include expertise from all our legal disciplines, which the specific transaction requires. We guide our clients throughout the process – from thorough analysis and preparation to the actual takeover, implementation and following quality assurance in respect of the bought company. We know that time, fast response and efficiency are important factors for a successful transaction. And we adjust our counselling thereafter.
In an environment characterized by innovation, liberalisation and privatization, creativity and commercial understanding are crucial factors for success. Our corporate team is made up by lawyers with extensive transaction experience. We understand that our client’s business reality plays a crucial role. This is why industry knowledge and commercial insight are important elements in our counselling. We therefore ensure our client a solution that is not only legally correct, but also practically useful and meaningful from a business perspective.
We advise on buying and selling companies that are present in several countries. Because of our cooperation with foreign law firms, we have the means to establish a strong, international transaction team that can handle our client’s transnational transactions. The international cooperation has therefore given us considerable experience in international transactions. This means that we can offer specialised advisory services regarding legal issues in other countries.
The strategic and economic significance of IP has developed intensely in recent decades, and the development seems to continue at a very rapid pace. IP is therefore the most important asset or one of the most important assets to an increasing number of companies. Moreover, the rules governing IP are changing continuously to reflect the rapidly changing technological and commercial reality. The rules are becoming increasingly complicated and internationalised, which imposes substantial demands on companies' ability to navigate.
There is thus a great demand for advanced and highly specialised IP advice if companies are to obtain optimal conditions for developing, exploiting and protecting their IP potential. And IP expertise cannot stand alone as companies' products and marketing are increasingly regulated by complex acts and executive orders or by EU regulation.
Horten has many years' experience conducting litigation at every level and ad hoc arbitration and institutional arbitration. Many of our experienced partners are admitted to the Supreme Court and have conducted a substantial number of Supreme Court cases.
Our expertise in the litigation area is based on many years' experience conducting a large number of often leading cases. Our client portfolio is wide, which also means that it is necessary to conduct many cases in court. We assist at all stages of the case and also advise on alternative dispute resolution models – including mediation.
