We are adept at conducting complex arbitration and litigation at all Danish court levels. Our highly specialized team has been involved in some of the largest Danish disputes within insurance, reinsurance, offshore, professional liability, product liability, banking and finance and shipping.

We have experience from litigation and arbitration in more than 50 jurisdictions and work extensively on multinational, high volume litigation involving banks, insurers, other financial institutions and industrial players. Our partners have appeared before the Danish Supreme Court in a number of commercial cases as well as handling a large volume of cases before the High Courts and the Maritime & Commercial Court.

Within our areas of specialization, we are able to compose a team to match any size and complexity of dispute where each member of the team will have substantial relevant experience and a second-to-none curriculum. We are agile and improvise on a very high level with careful attention to clients’ needs.

Our services to the insurance industry are diversified. We provide advice on regulatory issues and we are heavily involved in contentious work. The contentious work ranges from professional liability, financial lines, property and casualty insurance as well as a large volume of cases involving energy, shipping, transport and offshore.

On the underwriting side, we assist Danish and foreign insurers and reinsurers with establishment of insurance business in Denmark, conduct of cross-border and agency activities, drafting of policy terms and associated regulatory and compliance issues.

On the claims side, we act for and against Danish and foreign insurers and reinsurers in matters concerning insurance cover. We assist with the pursuit or defence against claims and recourse claims of or against the insured.

• D&O, BOD and management liability

• Professional indemnity insurance

• Property and large claims

• Product liability

• Workers compensation and employers liability insurance

• P&I, H&M ECL, offshore, FD&D

• FFL and cargo insurance

Hafnia Law Firm covers all areas of corporate and finance law and we assist businesses, investors and financial institutions in transactions, regulatory matters and disputes.

Spanning from ‘cradle to grave’, Hafnia Law Firm’s corporate law assistance covers all the legal and practical aspects of doing business in Denmark and any step from formation to termination, including acquisitions, mergers and demergers. In contentious matters, we assist in litigation or arbitration of transaction disputes and disputes between joint venture partners. Within insolvency related matters, we assist in the negotiation and implementation of company restructuring or the protection and enforcement of investor or creditor interests.

Our services to Danish and foreign banks and financial businesses involves corporate lending, acquisition finance and asset finance as well as advice on financial regulation and cross border services. The contentious work includes banking and finance disputes, insolvency related disputes and enforcement, and we have a record of successfully protecting security rights for banks in international businesses organized in Denmark.

• Establishment and organisation of companies

• Joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions

• Loan and security agreements and leasing structures

• Financial regulation

• Restructuring and bankruptcy

• Enforcement and forced sale of assets

• Shipbuilding and sale and purchase of ships

• Ship and aviation finance

• Infrastructure projects

Our team has been involved in infrastructure projects both onshore and offshore. We have a strong record of cases involving offshore wind projects and construction and logistical services to wind farms. Our clients both count manufacturers of turbines and providers of offshore material and services.

Port and terminal operators seek our assistance in contractual as well as dispute work and we have been involved in major disputes concerning ports and their stakeholders.

We have advised on light rail projects with a particular focus on supply contracts and larger contract structures and we also have strong experience within cable laying projects.

Our legal services to the energy & offshore industry cover both the renewables segment and the traditional offshore oil and gas sector.

We advise investors, developers, operators and contractors on contractual and regulatory matters and have extensive experience with the tenders and contracts applied by the industry. Our assistance covers all steps spanning from the obtaining of license through the exploration, construction and energy production to the decommissioning of production facilities. Hafnia Law Firm’s expertise further covers all shipping related aspects of the offshore industry.

We assist with resolution of disputes by settlement negotiation, mediation, litigation or arbitration in cases concerning offshore platforms, windmill farms or other renewable facilities and have been involved in some of the largest disputes in the offshore sector in Denmark.

Hafnia Law Firm has its roots in the areas of shipping, trading and logistics and benefits from the largest team of shipping lawyers in Denmark.

We provide legal advice within all aspects of the shipping industry, including business establishment, day-to-day operation, contracts and resolution of disputes. Our clients are shipowners, shipyards, insurers, banks, bunker fuel traders, terminal operators and intermediaries in transport. The contentious work involves casualties, cargo damage and contract disputes in a broader sense. We have extensive experience within newbuilding and sale, purchase and financing of ships.

We advise on international sale and purchase of commodities and goods, and we draft, review and negotiate standard terms and bespoke logistics contracts and transport agreements for providers as well as receivers of logistical services.

Our client base counts the world’s biggest trading houses and their affiliates, and we have profound experience within the field of supplies to ships with an unparalleled knowledge of pursuit of bunker debt worldwide and all other disputes relating to bunker supplies.

• Newbuildings, sale and purchase of ships

• Conversion contracts

• Terminal, storage and distribution agreements

• Logistics agreements and volume contracts

• Commodities and sale of goods

• Transport of goods and passengers by any means of transport

• Freight forwarding, brokering and agency agreements

• FFL, specialist professional indemnity and cargo insurance

• Collisions, salvage, ship’s liabilities

Hafnia Law Firm has a growing sanctions compliance practice and provides legal advice to clients within shipping & trade, heavy industry, insurance and banking.

We advise on compliance with EU, UK and US sanctions and provide day-to-day screenings as well as strategic training of employees and assistance with building sanctions compliance programs.

We represent clients in disputes related to sanctions, including commercial litigation and arbitration, criminal cases and investigations by authorities in matters where allegations of sanctions breaches are levied.

Given the wide reach of current sanctions, as part of M&A processes companies are advised to exercise careful due diligence with respect to compliance by any target company’s possible breach of sanctions. Hafnia Law Firm provides assistance with pre- and post-merger due diligence to clients engaged in M&A processes.