Norrbom Vinding

Managing Partner: Christian K. Clasen

Number of partners worldwide: 7

Number of lawyers worldwide: 20

Languages: English, French, German, Scandinavian languages

Firm Overview:

Norrbom Vinding is Denmark’s largest boutique labour and employment law firm advising on all aspects of labour and employment law and acting exclusively for the management/employer side. The core group of Norrbom Vinding’s 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, and the firm’s unique expertise thus builds on 30+ years’ experience within the area. Norrbom Vinding is also one of the largest labour and employment practices in Scandinavia in terms of caseload, high-profile cases and partners and associates engaged full-time in labour and employment law. Furthermore, Norrbom Vinding is the law firm in Denmark handling most litigation cases for employers in the area, including Supreme Court and Labour Court cases, and carrying out the greatest number of collective bargaining processes on behalf of clients. Offering a full service on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious labour and employment law to a client base that is a mixture of national and international companies and organisations, Norrbom Vinding’s legal advice is firmly rooted in an understanding of management and commercial realities and is tailored to safeguard each client’s interests in terms of image, internal environment, public and media relations and all other relations of importance to the client.

Main Areas of Practice

Labour:

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, freedom of association and European works councils.

Employment:

Norrbom Vinding advises 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.

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 the 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.

Practice Area Contacts:

Christian K. Clasen, Jørgen Vinding, Yvonne Frederiksen, Elsebeth Aaes-Jørgensen, Søren Skjerbek, Torben Mølgaard Hededal and Jesper Oehlenschlaeger Madsen.

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.

Clients:

Norrbom Vinding represents national and international companies and organisations and has a particularly strong client base in the financial, pharmaceutical, information technology and media sectors.