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EXPERTISE
- Construction
- Real estate
- Dispute resolution
- Environmental and planning law
PROFILE
A specialist in real estate regulation and development.
REFERENCES
Advisor to a distributor regarding a building permit for the expansion of a private hospital, which the municipality had initially refused, but which it subsequently granted.
Advisor to a distributor who needed to remodel approx. 9,000 sqm. of existing buildings before granting a new lease. Assistance in organising the conversion process so that the building permit requirements only included a few structural conditions, which made it possible to accelerate the conversion and leasing by 9 months.
Advisor to and legal coordinator for a grocery chain in the acquisition of properties and subsequent a local plan process.
Advisor to a real estate developer in a housing development project of 26,000 sqm. which had a requirement for the establishment of social housing. Assistance in demonstrating the lack of legal basis for a local plan requirement for the establishment of social housing, after which a planning permission was granted for private housing.
Advisor to a distributor regarding the planning of a residential construction on undeveloped land, where the municipality had issued a ban on construction on two occasions with reference to section 43 and section 14 of the Planning Act, respectively. Assistance in handling of the appeal cases before the Planning Appeals Board, which in both cases resulted in the overturning of bans as being invalid, after which a building permit was granted.
EDUCATION AND CAREER
Associated partner, VILTOFT, 2023-
Self-employed attorney, 2019-2023
Attorney, Gangsted Law Firm, 2018-2019
Self-employed attorney, 2008-2018
PhD fellow 2004-2008
Self-employed attorney, 2003-2004
Admitted to the Danish Bar, 2003
TEACHING
External lecturer at the land surveyor program at Aalborg University 2023-
Guest lecturer at the land surveyor program at Aalborg University 2017-2023
Since 2012, lecturer at courses in the Danish Land Surveyors Association on neighboring rights and claims.
External lecturer in environmental law at the University of Copenhagen 2009-
External lecturer in property law II at the University of Copenhagen 2007-2012
External lecturer in property law at the University of Copenhagen 2005-2008
Lecturer in property law at the University of Copenhagen 2000-2005
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed article entitled "Planlægning for støjfølsom anvendelse af støjbelastede arealer" in "Festskrift til Peter Pagh", Djøf Forlag 2023.
Peer-reviewed article in MAD 2010.1657 with the title ”Kan en del af en fast ejendom udlægges til et offentligt formål i en lokalplan?" ("Can a part of a real estate be allocated for a public purpose in a local plan?")
MEMBERSHIPS ETC.
Co-editor of the University of Copenhagen's Environmental Law Research Portal (MRF) 2022-
Co-editor of Kendelser om Fast Ejendom (KFE) 2019-2021
Co-editor of Miljøretlige Afgørelser og Domme (MAD) 2005-2019
ANDERS HESSNER
Associated partner
T: +45 3314 9300
M: +45 3177 6193
E: ah@viltoft.dk
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Sanne Høegh Lorentsen
Secretary
D: +45 3345 5215
E: shl@viltoft.dk