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Agenda
2.00pm – 2.30pm Registration
2.30pm – 2.55pm Welcome address and keynote
- Allan Cohen, research editor, The Legal 500
2.55pm – 3.40pm The Changing Face of M&A
This session focuses on how the patterns of completing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are beginning to change around the world. The topics to be discussed include the challenges of inflation and increasing interest rates as well as the added difficulties in obtaining external financing. The impact of megatrends such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the global energy crisis, supply-chain related challenges and increased focus on ESG will also be covered.
- Jens Krogh Petersen, partner, head of corporate – Denmark, DLA Piper
- Nina Wedsted, partner, head of employment Denmark, DLA Piper
- Chris Arnold, partner, corporate and M&A, DLA Piper London
- Tomas Krüger Andersen, head of legal, ATP
- Robin Philip, group vice-president, general counsel, head of M&A, DLG
3.40pm – 4.25pm Sustainable Finance – Opportunities, Challenges and Risks
The market for sustainable finance has grown at a rapid pace over the past few years and the trend is expected to continue as sustainable finance asset classes become more mainstream. The integration of ESG and sustainability into corporate decision-making has evolved into a strategic imperative making sustainable finance a top priority for boards, financiers, and investors. This session will explore some of the current opportunities, challenges and risks of sustainable finance drawing upon the experience and insight of corporate issuers of green and sustainability-linked bonds.
- Anne Cathrine Ingerslev, partner, Bruun & Hjejle
- Peter S. Andersen, head of sustainability, TDC NET
- Martin Graa Jennum, head of corporate finance, European Energy
- Lars Eibeholm, head of sustainable banking, SEB Denmark
4.25pm – 4.40pm Coffee break
4.40pm – 5.25pm Corporate PPAs and the Evolving ESG Agenda
In an era of ever-greater focus on corporate sustainability, companies are increasingly entering into corporate PPAs – not only in pursuit of reliable access to renewable energy, but in order to advance their ESG agenda. With evolving market standards, however, and both incoming and prospective requirements on the horizon, including the newly adopted Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the considerations are not just legal and commercial but also regulatory and reputational. This session will explore corporate PPAs and the best energy procurement strategy to support companies’ ESG goals.
- Christian Halskov Sauer, partner, Gorrissen Federspiel
- Christina Rahbek, managing counsel, Gorrissen Federspiel
- Jakob Bendixen, partner, Our New Energy
- Kim Nielsen, senior energy risk advisor, Energi Danmark
5.25pm – 6.10pm White-collar crime – an outlook for 2023
This session will be focusing on white-collar crime and investigations. We will discuss the main drivers and top challenges in investigations of white-collar crimes in these times where we are experiencing increased scrutiny of corporate behavior, higher expectations on corporate accountability, and a wide array of regulatory requirements. What role does the economic instability, global political and technological landscape play when it comes to white-collar crimes and to what extent will such factors impact the nature and scope of corporate investigations going forward. Topics for discussion will also include ways to promote and support a culture of corporate compliance that can respond to emerging risks and foster responsible corporate behavior.
- Monna Maria Nielsen, managing director, head of forensic accounting and advisory services in Denmark, FTI Consulting
- Richard Grint, senior managing director, head of EMEA financial crime compliance, FTI Consulting
- Martin Lønstrup, VP, chief compliance officer, group compliance, Sandvik
- Nicolai Ellehuus, head of global compliance, business ethics, data privacy and quality management, Bang & Olufsen
6.10pm – 6.20pm Closing remarks
- Allan Cohen, research editor, The Legal 500
6.20pm – 7.20pm Drinks and networking
Speakers
Allan Cohen, research editor, The Legal 500
Jens Krogh Petersen, partner, head of corporate - Denmark, DLA Piper
For several years, Jens has dealt with the sale and purchase of businesses, including for private equity funds, for Danish as well as international clients. A large number of these transactions were so-called cross-border transactions involving either international buyers or sellers. Furthermore, Jens has assisted international venture capital funds with investments in Danish companies.
Jens has vast experience in managing and driving major transactions forward, including mergers and acquisitions, large investments in enterprises and restructurings.
In addition, he has for a number of years advised Danish and international clients on agreements relating to assignment of rights, in particular within the music, film and TV industry.
Anne Cathrine Ingerslev, partner, Bruun & Hjejle
Anne Catherine has extensive experience advising financial sponsors, corporates, banks, debt funds and other direct lenders on a broad range of financing matters – including acquisition financing (public and private), alternative credit financing, corporate financing, fund financing, debt capital markets financing, infrastructure financing and green, sustainable, and other ESG-linked financing.
When structuring, negotiating and documenting transactions, Anne Catherine draws upon a solid academic background within law, finance, and economics as well as unique international expertise obtained from several years of practicing in the London-based global finance practice of top-tier U.S. law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell.
Anne Catherine is dual-qualified as a Danish Attorney and a Solicitor of England and Wales. She also holds an M.Sc. in Law and Finance from the University of Oxford.
Christian Halskov Sauer, partner, Gorrissen Federspiel
Christian Halskov Sauer is a partner in Gorrissen Federspiel’s Energy & Infrastructure group with a focus on the renewables sector, an area in which he has over 15 years’ experience advising both Danish and international players in relation to development projects, transactions and complex contractual structures.
Having advised on renewables projects in over 30 countries, Christian has significant industry knowledge including considerable experience advising on PPAs for a wide range of buyers and sellers both in Denmark and on an international basis.
His experience with PPAs extends to advising developers of renewables projects, and Christian is equally proficient in project development both in Denmark and internationally with a focus on onshore and offshore wind, solar energy projects, biogas and PtX.
Christian has also advised and negotiated FIDIC-based EPC contracts and OMS contracts for renewable projects, as well as offtake contracts from PtX facilities.
Christina Rahbek, managing counsel, Gorrissen Federspiel
Christina Rahbek is a managing counsel in Gorrissen Federspiel’s Compliance & Sustainability group with a focus on corporate sustainability, regulatory sustainability requirements and business ethics. In addition, Christina is highly experienced within commercial law and M&A.
Her compliance and sustainability expertise covers international guidelines and frameworks such as the UN guiding principles, anti-corruption, export controls and sanctions, as well as the EU’s recently adopted Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and proposed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence directive.
Christina’s broad-ranging experience within commercial contracts includes drafting and negotiating various types of sale and purchase agreements, as well as large scale CAPEX projects and EPC contracts, and often with a cross-border element.
Jakob Bendixen, partner, Our New Energy
Jakob Bendixen holds a masters degree in Economics and management. During the last 15 years Jakob has been on the forefront of developing the liberalization of the Nordic energy market, for Energi Danmark, Danske Commodities and as a CEO of Lyngby CHP the past 8 years. Jakob has deep knowledge in the energy markets, with focus on deriving value from flexibility in these markets. Jakob has experience in the valuation of energy assets and has been lead on transactions of CHP assets.
Kim Nielsen, senior energy risk advisor, Energi Danmark
Kim Nielsen has been in the energy market for almost 20 years assisting ‘off-takers’ in procurement strategies and risks in the energy market. Kim has been involved in the transformation of making financial PPAs into physical delivery. Energi Danmark will during the coming years deliver more than 1TWh physical PPA to ‘off-takers’.
Peter S. Andersen, head of sustainability, TDC NET
Peter leads the Sustainability team in TDC NET and is responsible for setting the strategic direction and execution on Sustainability across TDC NET. Peter also serves as a Board member at Global enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) – a globally recognized thought leader and proactive driver of the ICT sustainability agenda.
Prior to TDC NET, Peter worked as a management consultant in Bain & Company, and he has master’s degree in Economics & Management from Aarhus University.
Martin Graa Jennum, head of corporate finance, European Energy
Martin joined European Energy A/S in 2016 and has a strong background in M&A activities and project finance within the renewable energy industry. At European Energy, Martin’s work focuses on the entire capital structure of the European Energy Group. Furthermore, Martin is heading the FP&A Investor Relations function and is part of the Investment Committee.
In his role, Martin has successfully managed all of European Energy’s listed sustainable bonds, resulting in the company becoming an experienced issuer in the Nordic bond market. Additionally, Martin’s expertise in structured finance has been invaluable in optimizing the company’s two-layered capital structure, which is a key factor in European
Energy’s success in delivering over 30% growth per year. In 2022, European Energy spent almost EUR 0.8 billion on green projects.
Prior to joining European Energy, Martin worked at Finansiel Stabilitet A/S, a state-owned company, where he was involved in the takeover of distressed Danish banks during the financial crisis. He was responsible for the structured sales process of banks and loan portfolios.
Lars Eibeholm, head of sustainable banking, SEB Denmark
Lars Eibeholm joined SEB in June 2020 as Head of Sustainable Banking at SEB Denmark, where he advises corporate and institutional clients on sustainability and sustainable finance. Prior to SEB, Lars was at Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) where he was a member of the Executive Committee and responsible for the bank’s treasury and sustainability activities. Lars joined NIB in 2007, before which he worked at Nykredit Group in Denmark.
Lars has served as chair of the Steering Committee for the Green and Social Bond Principles (2018-2020), as well as acted as observer to Network Greening the Financial System (NGFS) and to the EU High Level Expert Group for Sustainable Finance.
Nina Wedsted, partner, head of employment Denmark, DLA Piper
Nina Wedsted has been dedicated to working with legal advice and dispute resolution within employment and labour law for more than 25 years and has acted in numerous cases concerning incentives, share-option plans, dismissals, restrictive covenants and matters concerning CEO vs. employee statuses. Nina advises both Danish and international clients on all aspects of employment and labour law within various sectors such as financial services, maritime/transportation, wind power, IT, consultancy and the pharmaceutical industry.
Moreover, Nina has a unique knowledge of and experience in handling large-scale cross-border advice in projects covering many jurisdictions supporting employers with employees based around the world.
Chris Arnold, partner, corporate and M&A, DLA Piper London
Chris has vast experience advising on a wide range of corporate transactions but particularly cross-border and domestic M&A and private equity transactions.
Chris has a particular focus on both the Financial Services sector and the Consumer Goods, Food and Retail sector. Chris is co-head of DLA Piper’s Financial Services M&A product group. During his career Chris has spent time on secondment to the in-house legal teams of three large financial services companies.
Chris is also a co-author of DLA Piper’s Global M&A Intelligence Report, which contains an analysis of the key deal terms of the M&A transactions that DLA Piper has acted on. The report gives a true indication of what is “market” across geographies, given DLA Piper has been ranked number one for global M&A deal volume for each of the past 13 years by Mergermarket.
Tomas Krüger Andersen, head of legal, ATP
Tomas is Head of Legal and VP at ATP Pensions & Investments, the investment department of Denmark’s largest pension fund. ATP holds investments in private equity, infrastructure and private credit with an aggregate value of +100 billion DKK and Tomas has been involved in all of ATP’s M&A activity during the past seven years.
Tomas has more than 20 years of experience in M&A, private equity and securities regulation. He has previously been partner in a Danish private equity fund and a lawyer at Bech-Bruun law firm. For 15 years he was a senior external lecturer at the University of Copenhagen teaching classes in Corporate Finance Law and Private Equity, He is the author of a Danish textbook on private equity.
Robin Philip, group vice-president, general counsel, head of M&A, DLG
Since 2018, Robin has been Group-Vice President in the DLG Group and head of M&A for the group. The DLG Group is one of Denmark’s largest companies with a revenue of 80 billion DKK and 6,700 employees. The group has activities in 18 countries. Prior to joining DLG, Robin was a partner at the Danish law firm Bruun & Hjejle focusing on M&A and corporate commercial matters. Robin is in particular experienced in cross-border transactions and joint ventures which has been a common denominator throughout his professional career.
Monna Maria Nielsen, managing director, head of forensic accounting and advisory services in Denmark, FTI Consulting
As a lawyer with a wide range of experience in forensic investigation, compliance, financial crime and corporate governance, Monna advises clients on corporate compliance and business ethics, helping them navigate the most critical and complex challenges. Her services range from establishing whistleblower programs to investigating misconduct and advising on the prevention of non-compliance and unethical behaviour.
Specialising in anti-bribery, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, fraud, sanctions and whistleblowing, Monna possesses in-depth knowledge of financial crime laws and regulations, corporate governance best practices and enforcement trends within these areas. Monna has led full-scale internal investigations on behalf of global clients and their external or internal legal counsel into fraud and financial crime including bribery and corruption, misappropriation of funds, improper revenue recognition practices and other compliance issues, and has conducted investigative witness interviews and managed complex document reviews.
Richard Grint, senior managing director, head of EMEA financial crime compliance, FTI Consulting
Richard Grint is a leading global expert in the prevention, detection, and investigation of financial crime and leads the anti-financial crime work in EMEA.
Richard has led over 450 financial crime related assignments, spanning compliance assessments, regulator intermediation, monitorships, customer onboarding/KYC automation, transaction monitoring optimisation, forensic investigations and more. Richard has led assignments in over 29 countries across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, and his expertise spans money laundering, fraud, bribery & corruption, terrorist financing, market abuse, sanctions, tax evasion and the proliferation of prohibited weapons. His clients include law enforcement, regulators and many of the world’s largest FS institutions.
Martin Lønstrup, VP, chief compliance officer, group compliance, Sandvik
Martin Lønstrup is Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer – Group Compliance for Sandvik, a Swedish conglomerate with +50.000 employees globally, holding world leading positions within its business areas including mining and rock solutions. Previous held similar positions with the global Danish emergency company Falck and conglomerate A.P Moller Mærsk. Martin is an international recognized Ethics and Compliance professional successfully having designed, developed, and implemented Ethics & Compliance programs for the last +15 years across industries and in high risk territories.
Martin has proven international leadership (building talent and sustainable teams) having managed teams in all corners of the world, lived in US, India and China and serves as a trusted advisor to Executive Management teams, the board, audit committee.
Martin has international experience in corporate investigations, internal clean-up programs, corporate self-reporting to authorities, collaboration with SFO/DOJ, building up best practice compliance programs focusing on integrating compliance within the business models, using data, technology, and communication to not only promote the global programs but to enhance true speak up and a culture of integrity.
Nicolai Ellehuus, head of global compliance, business ethics, data privacy and quality management, Bang & Olufsen
Nicolai Ellehuus is an attorney-at-law having worked with establishing compliance programs since 2007. Currently, he is the global head of Compliance, Business Ethics, Privacy and Quality Management at luxury life-style company, Bang & Olufsen. His experience includes building compliance programs in highly regulated industries such as the financial sector, the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. The companies have represented both listed and privately owned companies under both Danish and American ownership. Nicolai has international experience from long-term assignments to the USA and China, where he has also ensured the anchoring of Novo Nordisk’s global compliance program as well as compliance with major settlement agreements with authorities.
Ricardo Gomez, senior managing director, forensic & litigation consulting, FTI Consulting
Dr Ricardo Gomez is the Co-Leader of FTI Consulting’s Forensic & Litigation Consulting practice in Germany and he leads a group of professionals that executes investigations and advises on regulatory compliance around the world. He is a forensics expert, with 19 years of experience in forensic and litigation consulting. He specializes in cross-border, complex investigations and compliance assessments, involving forensic interviewing, forensic accounting and forensic technology elements.
Dr Ricardo Gomez has performed investigations and compliance assessments in 15 countries, including jurisdictions in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Among others, while leading cross-border investigative engagements for global companies, and jointly with US law firms, he presented case reports at the US Department of Justice.
He has been repeatedly engaged as the Lead Partner on investigations and compliance assessments in relation to US, as well as European, legal requirements, including cases involving the US Department of Justice or the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Ricardo holds a law degree as well as a Doctor IUR. degree from the Cologne University, Germany.
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