Christian K. Clasen
Managing Partner
Christian advises on all aspects of labour and employment law, but his areas of special interest are:
- Industrial relations for private as well as public sector employers, including employer organisations
- HR aspects of business transfers and company restructures
- Advice on management issues in a broad sense, including the relationship between the board of directors and the executive board
- CSR – with a particular focus on the requirements under international labour law
- Equal treatment in employment law and labour law
Practice areas
Public sector labour and employment law
A thorough understanding of how public sector labour and employment law interacts with public law is a prerequisite – together with a good measure of political insight – to advising clients in this area
Industrial relations
Collective agreements and industrial relations are the hallmark of the Danish labour market model
Employment law
Contracts, dismissals, changes to terms and conditions, post-termination restrictions, etc. We advise on all aspects of employment law
Litigation
Norrbom Vinding’s litigators are among the most skilled litigators in Denmark
Legal investigations and inquiries
Legal investigations and inquiries are an important tool when companies, authorities or organisations have a need to uncover and assess a matter or course of events
I recently
- assisted several companies in carrying out collective redundancies and negotiating with employees and their representatives in this context
- advised a number of companies on the collective bargaining process for 2023, including the risk of and situation during a possible major labour conflict
- assisted management in a group of companies with handling issues in connection with a sale of the group
- assisted public authorities with tenders and legal assessments in relation to the Danish Transfer of Undertakings Act
- acted as a sparring partner for management in negotiations with employee associations in an attempt to achieve a turnaround of an ailing group
Qualifications and experience
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2023
Norrbom Vinding, Managing Partner
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2009
Right of audience in the Supreme Court
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2008 – 2017
Part-time lecturer at the Copenhagen Business School
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2007
Norrbom Vinding, Partner
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2002 – 2013
Part-time lecturer in Labour Law, University of Copenhagen
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2000
Norrbom Vinding, Associate
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1999 – 2000
Gorrissen Federspiel Kierkegaard, Junior Associate
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1998 – 1999
Norrbom Vinding, Junior Associate
National correspondent, European Employment Law Cases
Member of the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA), the Danish Society for Labour Law and the Danish Employment Lawyers