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Bruun & Hjejle

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Bruun & Hjejle

Bruun & Hjejle

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Chairman: Ole Spiermann

Managing Partner: Christian Johansen

Number of partners worldwide: 29

Number of other lawyers worldwide: 130

Languages: Danish and other Scandinavian languages, English

Firm Overview: 

Bruun & Hjejle focus on few strategic areas — M&A, real estate and dispute resolution. This prioritisation allows Bruun & Hjejle to fully comprehend its dealings with businesses and the processes associated. Bruun & Hjejle’s ambition is to find solutions to the most complex legal disputes and transactions, working in integrated teams with many different legal experts.

Main Areas of Practice: 

M&A: 

Bruun & Hjejle is a market leader for M&A and advises buyers, sellers and financial advisers on both public and private mergers and acquisitions and private equity buyers on private equity-financed deals. Bruun & Hjejle delivers the full range of services in M&A transactions, working in multi-disciplinary teams with lawyers from specialist groups. Many of the firm’s M&A transactions have a multijurisdictional or cross-border dimension.

Real Estate & Construction: 

Bruun & Hjejle’s real estate and construction group is unparalleled in the Danish market and advises on all matters involving real estate, including complex property transactions, real estate financing, development projects and construction law. The firm has been entrusted with a variety of high-profile, complex cases, and its clients include a number of the most active players in the Danish real estate sector.

Dispute Resolution: 

With dispute resolution having been a core focus area for decades, Bruun & Hjejle offers market-leading expertise and is frequently sought out to assist with many of the largest and most complex disputes in the market – both domestic and international. Besides acting as counsel and adviser in arbitral and judicial proceedings as well as mediation, the firm conducts investigations and the full range of statutory and regulatory enquiries and disciplinary proceedings.

Capital Markets: 

Bruun & Hjejle’s capital markets practice group advises issuers, underwriters, arrangers and investors on every aspect of equity and debt capital offerings and issues in a global context.

Banking & Finance: 

Bruun & Hjejle’s banking and finance team provides specialised advice on all types of financing transactions and derivatives as well as regulatory advice to financial institutions and sector organisations on every aspect of their business.

Restructuring & Insolvency: 

Bruun & Hjejle’s restructuring and insolvency group advises on all aspects of corporate restructurings and insolvency proceedings. Its practitioners understand the dynamics of businesses in distress and have handled some of the biggest bankruptcies and restructurings in Denmark.

Competition & EU Law: 

Bruun & Hjejle has a leading competition practice covering all aspects of Danish and EU competition law, including merger control and cartel investigations. The firm acts in ground-breaking competition and State aid litigation before the Danish courts, the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Employment: 

Bruun & Hjejle has a highly specialised, business-oriented employment practice, which provides advice on all aspects of corporate HR, collective bargaining, employment law and dispute resolution-related HR, often in a cross-border context.

Energy: 

Bruun & Hjejle’s energy group provides specialised advice on all aspects within the electricity, oil, gas, renewables, water and waste management fields. The firm has vast experience representing government, municipal and privately owned energy and utilities companies.

GDPR: 

Bruun & Hjejle’s data protection team holds some of the country’s foremost GDPR experts providing specialised and tailor-made advice on all legal aspects of the regulation on data protection, including not only the Danish Act on Processing of Personal Data but also rules and practices specific to a wide range of sectors.

IT & Media: 

Bruun & Hjejle’s IT group provides specialist advice in ITrelated matters. The firm assists several key actors within the IT field and also advises clients outside the field on the conclusion of IT-related contracts. Bruun & Hjejle also has in-depth experience within the media and entertainment sector and advises a wide range of leading players in the media and entertainment industry.

Intellectual Property: 

Bruun & Hjejle advises on all aspects of the creation, exploitation and enforcement of IP rights. The firm’s lawyers have detailed knowledge of the complex rules and regulations in the IP field as well as a profound commercial understanding.

Public & International Law: 

As the only Danish law firm, Bruun & Hjejle has a practice area specifically focusing on private and public international law. Bruun & Hjejle is highly experienced within the particular legal aspects relating to public law and the public sector advising clients on all aspects of constitutional, municipal and administrative law.

Private Equity: 

Bruun & Hjejle advises on all legal matters regarding investments in Danish and foreign funds and establishment of alternative investment structures with Danish and foreign investors. Our advisers are mainly specialists in private equity and banking and finance who are highly specialised and experienced, and we work closely with Danish managers, pension funds and other institutional investors.

Corporate:  

Bruun & Hjejle has extensive experience in advising listed, family-owned, fund-owned and private equity-owned companies on all aspects of corporate law.

Ranked Offices

Provided by Bruun & Hjejle

Denmark - Head office

Contributions

Latest contributions provided by Bruun & Hjejle

In-Depth Overview
Karsten Kristoffersen
Authored by
Karsten Kristoffersen, Lasse Mikkelsen
Article • Mar 2024
Global Practice Guide
Morten Jensen
Samuel O’Doherty Jensen
Kasper Laustsen
Christoffer Henneberg
Authored by
Morten Jensen, Samuel O’Doherty Jensen, Kasper Laustsen, Christoffer Henneberg
Article • Nov 2023
Global Practice Guide
Morten Jensen
Samuel O’Doherty Jensen
Kasper Laustsen
Christoffer Henneberg
Authored by
Morten Jensen, Samuel O’Doherty Jensen, Kasper Laustsen, Christoffer Henneberg
Article • Nov 2023

All contributions provided by Bruun & Hjejle

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Construction Law 2023 | Denmark | Trends and Developments
Authored by: Christian Johansen, Liv Helth Lauersen, Gregers Gam
Global Practice Guide May 2023 Article
Construction Law 2023 | Denmark | Law and Practice
Authored by: Christian Johansen, Liv Helth Lauersen, Gregers Gam
Global Practice Guide May 2023 Article
Cartels 2023 | Denmark | Law and Practice
Authored by: Frederik André Bork, Søren Zinck, Olaf Koktvedgaard
Global Practice Guide Apr 2023 Article
Corporate M&A 2023 | Denmark | Trends and Developments
Authored by: Morten Jensen, Paula Grønlund
Global Practice Guide Mar 2023 Article
Corporate M&A 2023 | Denmark | Law and Practice
Authored by: Morten Jensen, Elise Ross-Hansen, Frederik André Bork, Paula Grønlund
Global Practice Guide Mar 2023 Article

Bruun & Hjejle rankings

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Denmark
Banking & Finance
1 Department
3 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Banking & Finance
2
Banking & Finance
2
Band 2
Lawyers
Thomas Skjellerup
2
Thomas Skjellerup
Head of Banking & Finance
2
Band 2
Anne Cathrine Ingerslev
3
Anne Cathrine Ingerslev
3
Band 3
Christian Sahlertz
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Christian Sahlertz
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Competition/European Law
1 Department
3 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Competition/European Law
1
Competition/European Law
1
Band 1
Lawyers
Frederik André Bork
2
Frederik André Bork
Head of Competition/European Law
2
Band 2
Olaf Koktvedgaard
2
Olaf Koktvedgaard
Head of Competition/European Law
2
Band 2
Søren Zinck
2
Søren Zinck
Head of Competition/European Law
2
Band 2
Corporate/M&A
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Corporate/M&A
2
Corporate/M&A
2
Band 2
Lawyers
Jesper Schultz Larsen
2
Jesper Schultz Larsen
2
Band 2
Morten Jensen
2
Morten Jensen
Head of Corporate/M&A
2
Band 2
Dispute Resolution
1 Department
3 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Dispute Resolution
1
Dispute Resolution
1
Band 1
Lawyers
Karsten Kristoffersen
1
Karsten Kristoffersen
Head of Dispute Resolution
1
Band 1
Ole Spiermann
1
Ole Spiermann
1
Band 1
Jakob Lentz
3
Jakob Lentz
3
Band 3
Employment
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Employment
3
Employment
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Elise Ross-Hansen
2
Elise Ross-Hansen
Head of Employment
2
Band 2
Flemming Strømme Martinussen
3
Flemming Strømme Martinussen
3
Band 3
Real Estate
1 Department
3 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Real Estate
1
Real Estate
1
Band 1
Lawyers
Christian Schow Madsen
1
Christian Schow Madsen
1
Band 1
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