Plesner is a danish law firm. It was founded in 1918 and has grown through a series of mergers with other Danish law firms.
It deals with many areas of commercial law. And most of its work is international in nature. The company has 42 partners, and a total staff of about 360.
Plesner's history traces back to a law firm founded by Poul Jacobsen in 1918. Kaj Holm-Nielsen and Mogens Plesner became partners in the firm in 1949, which later assumed the name Holm-Nielsen & Plesner. The 1980s saw the first of a series of mergers with other law firms, which has led to the current company, known as Plesner since 2004.
1918 – Poul Jacobsen, Attorney-at-Law, establishes the firm that later becomes Holm-Nielsen & Plesner
1933 – Oskar Bondo Svane, High Court Attorney, establishes the firm O. Bondo Svane
1937 – Svend Lunøe and Carl Ricard, High Court Attorneys, establish firms that later become Lunøe & Partnere
1940s – Jacob la Cour, High Court Attorney, establishes the law firm la Cour
1958 – Kaj Holm-Nielsen and Mogens Plesner become partners in Poul Jacobsen's law firm. The firm later changes its name to Holm-Nielsen & Plesner
1964 – Bornstein & Grønborg is founded by Jørgen Grønborg and Preben Bornstein
1967 – Robert Koch-Nielsen joins the law firm la Cour as a partner, and the firm changes its name to la Cour & Koch-Nielsen after some years
1987 – Lunøe & Partnere becomes the umbrella name of a number of small law firms, including the firm founded by Svend Lunøe and Carl Ricard
1989 – Plesner & Lunøe is established through an office amalgamation of the law firms Holm-Nielsen & Plesner and Lunøe & Partnere
1990 – Koch-Nielsen & Grønborg is established through a merger between the law firms la Cour & Koch-Nielsen and Bornstein & Grønborg
1997 – Plesner & Grønborg is established through a merger between the law firms Plesner & Lunøe and Koch-Nielsen & Grønborg
2000 – Plesner Svane Grønborg is established through a merger between the law firms O. Bondo Svane and Plesner & Grønborg
2004 – Plesner Svane Grønborg's employees all move to the newly built domicile, the "Copper Tower", at Amerika Plads 37 – and Plesner is used as a logo and the firm goes by the name of Plesner
2009 – Plesner Svane Grønborg changes its company name to Plesner
Today, the company practices in many
Plesner's CSR programme includes
the School Project aimed at retaining children from lesser privileged areas of Copenhagen in school and keeping them focused on continued education
a programme for developing and retaining talented female lawyers with the goal of increasing the percentage of the firm's woman partners.
