Jakob Echwald Sevel > Plesner > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile

Plesner
37 AMERIKA PLADS
2100 COPENHAGEN
Denmark
Jakob  Echwald  Sevel  photo

Work Department

Banking and Finance; Financial Services

Position

Jakob is a partner in Plesner’s Banking and Finance team. He is a market-leading practitioner with considerable experience in complex transactions and regulatory issues. Jakob has more than 20 years’ experience advising clients in the financial sector and on finance transactions.

Jakob advises on lending and debt capital market transactions, including acquisition financing, corporate lending, infrastructure, and project and asset finance. He advises on regulatory issues for financial institutions, oftentimes advising senior management on strategically decisive matters, and he also has substantial experience assisting lenders and borrowers in all stages of work-outs and debt restructurings.

Jakob has worked with a broad range of clients within the financial sector. He advises international and domestic financial institutions, corporations, direct lending funds, private equity funds, and government bodies. Jakob has a particular focus on institutional investors, including Danish pension funds.

Jakob holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Copenhagen and has studied at the University of Massachusetts and Duke University School of Law.

Jakob also holds a Master of Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School.

Jakob’s involvement in most matters necessitates teamwork and project leadership. Clients consistently seek out Jakob and the team for their ability to provide a clear set of priorities, clear communication, and a deep commercial understanding of their needs, including managing multidisciplinary teams.

Plesner’s Banking and Finance team is a leading adviser on banking and finance law in Denmark. We participate in the largest transactions, and our clients include the market’s key players. Our specialists span all areas, including lending and debt capital market transactions, structured finance and derivatives, financial regulation, and financial restructuring.

Lawyer Rankings

Denmark > Banking and finance

(Leading partners)

Jakob Echwald Sevel – Plesner

Plesner‘s ‘highly skilled’ banking and finance practice group is well-known for advising on acquisition financings and cross-border transactions involving Danish targets, and assisting banks, financial institutions and investment funds with financial regulatory requirements and infrastructure finance work. Søren Thyssen Valerius heads up the team and focuses on lending and capital market transactions, including acquisition financings, corporate lending, infrastructure, project and asset finance matters and financial restructurings. Banking and finance specialist Jakob Echwald Sevel is a go-to name for financing arrangements, products and complex transactional work, while Rasmus Mandøe Jensen‘s demonstrable experience in the space includes handling multi-layered, high-yield and leveraged transactions and debt capital markets work. Henrik Kure, who has been notably active in green and renewables financing, and associate Emil Hedegaard Mikkelsen are additional important ports of call within the group.

Denmark > Capital markets

Praised as an ‘outstanding’ capital markets team, Plesner acts on the full suite of both issuer and underwriter-side mandates including accelerated book-builds, IPOs, and securities listings. ‘Incredible lawyer’ Thomas Holst Laursen and M&A expert Nicolai Ørsted jointly head up the equity side of the practice and are key points of contact for IPOs, public takeovers, ABBs, PIPEs, rights issuances and corporate governance work. For debt capital markets transactions, Søren Thyssen Valerius and Jakob Echwald Sevel lead in conjunction with Henrik Kure. Henrik Laursen comes recommended for his cross-border ECM practice, which emphasises IPOs and public M&A. Janus Jepsen was promoted to the partnership in early 2023.