Moalem Weitemeyer

Chairman:Dan Moalem

Managing Partner:Thomas Weitemeyer

Number of partners:13

Number of lawyers:50

Languages: English, Scandinavian Languages, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Kurdish, Russian, Punjabi, Spanish, Turkish

Firm Overview:

Moalem Weitemeyer is a leading corporate M&A law firm in Denmark and the Nordics. The Firm has a reputation for providing exceptional legal advice and for being uncompromisingly available to its clients. M&A is the core of the firm’s business. Moalem Weitemeyer’s attorneys advise on the most comprehensive and complex transactions in Scandinavia. The Firm advises on all aspects of corporate and securities law. Moalem Weitemeyer is a leading disputes practice. It brings a technical strength and a commercial awareness to its work that consistently achieves outstanding results, in and out of court. Moalem Weitemeyer has close and well-developed relationships with several leading law firms in all key jurisdictions: from the best firms in Scandinavia, Germany and London to the leading firms on Wall Street and in Palo Alto.

Main Areas of Practice:

Corporate M&A:

The Firm’s attorneys are amongst the most experienced public and private M&A lawyers in Denmark, and have advised on more or less all significant Danish public M&A transactions in the past decade. Moalem Weitemeyer has acted as advisers in a large number of the most comprehensive and complex transactions in Denmark in recent years, and provides advice on all types of corporate transactions, including private equity and venture capital transactions. The Firm’s attorneys have created novel and innovative transaction structures that today are considered an integral part of how the law is to be applied, but were considered groundbreaking at the time of their inception. Clients include leading corporates, investment banks and private equity funds, including DSV Panalpina, FSN Private Equity Partners, Waterland Private Equity, and Triton Partners.

Contact: Dan Moalem, Partner

Tel: +45 3377 9010

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Jakob Skafte-Pedersen, Partner, Head of Corporate M&A

Tel: +45 3377 9020

Email: [email protected]

Capital Markets & Financial Institutions:

The firm has one of the leading capital markets teams in Denmark. Clients include leading investment banks, financial institutions and corporate issuers. We have acted for companies such as SEB, Skandia and Saxo Bank on regulatory matters and in connection with the transformation of mutual financial institutions.

Contact: Dan Moalem, Partner

Tel: +45 3377 9010

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Morten Krogsgaard, Partner

Tel: +45 3377 9091

Email: [email protected]

Banking & Finance

The Firm has extensive competencies within banking and finance, including regulatory matters and corporate debt finance with particular focus on acquisition financing and financing of real estate transactions. Acquisition financing in leveraged buyouts is core to its financing advisory as its serves clients in all workstreams related to M&A. Clients include financial institutions such as Nordea, SEB, Danske Andelskassers Bank, Sparinvest Holdings and UBS.

Contact: Morten Krogsgaard, Partner

Tel: +45 3377 9091

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Lennart Meyer Østenfjeld, Partner

Tel: +45 3377 9016

Email: [email protected]

Real Estate M&A

The Firm provides legal services in all aspects of real property and issues relating to the environment and construction. Moalem Weitemeyer specialises in providing legal advice in relation to real estate transactions and has assisted on some of the most significant transactions of the past year with portfolios of real estate, including hotel projects. Clients include CapMan, Essex and M. Goldschmidt.

Contact: Andreas Clement, Partner

Tel: +45 3377 9089

Email: [email protected]

Dispute & Investigations

The Firm is adept at handling the broadest range of complex and commercial disputes, including M&A disputes, domestic and cross-border deal disputes, banking and insolvency claims. Moalem Weitemeyer also brings a breadth of knowledge and experience in the arbitral area, and has extensive experience and excellent commercial understanding in settlement negotiations and the use of alternative dispute resolution, such as mediation. Companies, capital funds, and financial institutions from around the world trust Moalem Weitemeyer to advise them on the resolution of their most demanding disputes.

Contact: Thomas Weitemeyer, Managing Partner

Tel: +45 3377 9090

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Pernille Nørkær, Partner, Head of Disputes & Investigations

Tel: +45 3377 9040

Email: [email protected]

Gaming, Media, Entertainment & Sports

Contact: Pernille Nørkær, Partner, Head of Disputes & Investigations

Tel: +45 3377 9040

Email: [email protected]

EU Law, Competition, IPR/IT & Anti-Bribery

Contact: Thomas Mygind, Partner

Tel: +45 3377 9058

Email: [email protected]

HR & Incentive Programmes

EU Law, Competition, IPR/IT & Anti-Bribery

Contact: Thomas Mygind, Partner

Tel: +45 3377 9058

Email: [email protected]

China Desk

The firm’s China desk is headed by Partner Poul Guo who is a Mandarin speaker. With substantial knowledge of the Chinese business environment and culture, the team provides advice to Chinese companies that have or seek activities in Denmark and Europe, including in connection with M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions. Moalem Weitemeyer also advises Danish companies in their similar China endeavors.

Israel Desk

The firm’s Israel desk is headed by partner Dan Moalem who is a Hebrew speaker. The team works with many Israeli corporates and private equity and venture capital funds. Moalem Weitemeyer has assisted the Israeli Embassy in Denmark on a variety of matters over the years. The firm has assisted Danish clients on Israeli matters, including transactional and dispute related assignments.