Banking and finance

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.

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Testimonials

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‘Rasmus Mandøe Jensen has been central to the firm's success and continues to handle a significant amount of financing and regulatory work. Rasmus is extremely client focused and very skilled at drafting complex provisions. Always available and creative when it comes to solving problems.’
‘Always ready and eager to help. Highly commercial and focused on solutions across cap structure, docs, negotiation etc.’
‘The team is highly qualified and very proactive in assisting the client. The lawyers are both knowledgeable and commercial, which is vital in transactional work.’
‘In addition to being proactive and knowledgeable, Henrik Kure is always attentive to clients’ voices and understand clients’ needs clearly.’
‘Henrik Kure is our go to partner. He is always available and provides advice and solutions based on a strong commercial focus. He stands out compared to his peers with a more direct and informal approach which often results in better result than expected.’
‘The practice produces quality work with efficient project management. Truly a pleasure to work with them.’
‘Good competencies across various offerings (M&A, financing etc.) and different sectors.’
‘A unique insight in the financial industry makes it very easy to be client of Plesner. Legal advice is always in the relevant context and in accordance with new legal requirements and practice. Therefore, my company has been following Jakob Sevel around for several years, and I cannot see this to coming to an end.’

Key clients

Danske Bank
Nordea Bank
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
Jyske Bank
Nykredit
Danica Pension
Aareal Bank
BlackRock
Goldman Sachs
J.P. Morgan
Brødrene Hartmann
Leo Pharma
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets
The European Investment Bank
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners
Novozymes
H. Lundbeck
Collector Bank
The Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO)
A.P. Møller - Mærsk
NKT
Trill Impact
Agilitas Private Equity

Work highlights

Advised Novozymes, a Danish-based global biotechnology company, on the financing of its bid to merge with Chr. Hansen.
Advised Nykredit on the financing of a large real estate transaction.
Advised NKT in connection with the issuance of €150m green hybrid bonds.