Norrbom Vinding

Managing Partner: Christian K. Clasen

Number of partners worldwide: 12

Number of lawyers worldwide: 25

Languages: English, French, German, Scandinavian languages

Firm Overview:

Norrbom Vinding advises on three core areas: labour and employment law, M&A and dispute resolution, supported by a dedicated and highly specialised corporate legal support function.

Norrbom Vinding’s labour and employment law expertise is based on 35+ years of experience at expert level. The core group of lawyers are among those who pioneered and developed labour and employment law as a separate discipline for private practice lawyers in Denmark in the 1980s.

In October 2025, Norrbom Vinding expanded its practice to include M&A and strengthened the focus on dispute resolution. The M&A team, led by Partners Henrik Juul Hansen and Helle Wehl, draws on more than 70 years of combined experience advising listed and unlisted companies, private equity funds, owner-managers and family offices on domestic and cross-border transactions. The team is characterised by legal expertise, commercial understanding as well as sharp and efficient transaction management, ensuring that clients receive sound and rapid responses in fast-paced and complex situations.

Norrbom Vinding’s corporate legal support function provides comprehensive assistance in related areas, including real estate, competition law, marketing law, IPR and financing transactions. This ensures that all relevant aspects of corporate and transactional matters are covered, broadening the firm’s ability to provide integrated advice and dispute resolution services to both existing and new clients.

Main Areas of Practice

Labour and Employment:

Norrbom Vinding advises on all aspects of labour law, including collective bargaining, industrial disputes, transfer of undertakings, restructurings and reorganisations, redundancies, outsourcing, health and safety at work, freedom of association and European works councils. The firm also provides advice on all aspects of employment law, including recruitment, retention and termination processes, incentives and benefits, pensions, business immigration, tax and social security, employment contracts, restrictive covenants, severance agreements, discrimination, equal treatment, staff policies and childbirth-related leave.

M&A:

Norrbom Vinding advises on all legal aspects of corporate transactions and day-to-day operations, including private equity, venture capital, capital markets and W&I insurance.

The firm’s approach combines in-depth transactional experience with a strong understanding of clients’ commercial objectives. The M&A team provides clear, practical and solution-oriented advice, ensuring that clients receive effective support throughout all stages of the transaction.

Dispute Resolution:

Norrbom Vinding is one of the law firms in Denmark that most frequently represents companies and public authorities in a broad range of disputes before the Danish courts and arbitration tribunals, including the civil courts, industrial and ordinary arbitration tribunals, civil service tribunals, dismissal boards and the Labour Court.

The team combines extensive procedural experience with strong sector knowledge, particularly in employment-related and commercial matters. It provides strategic and pragmatic advice throughout all stages of the dispute process, from risk assessment to resolution and enforcement.

Norrbom Vinding’s strengthened corporate capabilities further support its dispute resolution practice, enabling effective handling of matters involving contractual, corporate, regulatory and financial issues.

Compensation & Benefits:

Norrbom Vinding advises on all issues relating to compensation and benefits, including share-based and other incentive plans. The advice is based on a multi-discipline approach covering all relevant legal areas, including company law, stock exchange law, tax law and social security law.

Pensions:

Norrbom Vinding assists with drafting and implementing pension schemes, changing existing pension plans and advising on all pension issues in relation to termination of employment or expatriation.

Tax & Social Security:

Norrbom Vinding advises on all tax and social security law issues relating to employment relationships, including flexible benefit plans, cross-border workers, expatriation, incentive plans and termination of employment.

Data Protection:

Norrbom Vinding advises on all aspects of data protection law relevant to private and public sector employers. This includes data protection audits, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance projects, implementation of data protection policies and whistleblower systems.

Workplace Investigations:

Norrbom Vinding offers unique expertise in conducting workplace investigations. Such processes involve handling – including conducting interviews, gathering, assessing and analysing evidence, consulting the parties involved, and writing investigation reports outlining fact-finding and conclusions – of, for example, allegations or (formal) complaints about harassment, discrimination, bullying, breaches of policy or unethical behaviour and also include post-investigation advice and support.

Transfer of Undertakings:

Norrbom Vinding offers advice on and assistance with the collective as well as individual aspects involved in transfer of undertakings, restructurings, reorganisations and outsourcing.

Immigration & Global Mobility:

Norrbom Vinding advises on all HR-related immigration law issues, including cross-border employees and expatriation.

International Work:

Norrbom Vinding is the Danish member of Ius Laboris, Global HR Lawyers. Ius Laboris is an alliance of law firms offering employers cross-border employment and pensions law advice. It has 1,500 specialist HR lawyers in 56 countries.

Practice Area Contacts:

Christian K. Clasen, Jørgen Vinding, Henrik Juul Hansen, Yvonne Frederiksen, Elsebeth Aaes-Jørgensen, Søren Skjerbek, Helle Wehl, Torben Mølgaard Hededal, Lars Bruun, Sara Baldus, Andreas-Brasch-Thomsen and Mathias Vester Clausen.