Practice Expertise

  • Banking and Finance
  • M&A
  • Capital Markets
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Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Finance
  • Capital Markets
  • M&A
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WSG Practice Industries

WSG Leadership

  • Mergers & Acquisitions Group - Member
  • Private Equity Group - Member

Profile

Henrik Rossing Lønberg is a partner in Plesner's Corporate Finance Team and has extensive experience in M&A, securities law, capital markets law, financial institutions and corporate governance. 

Henrik has specialized in corporate finance since 2001 and has provided advisory services in 185+ M&A transactions.  

Henrik Rossing Lønberg has long ago become a key player and house-hold name on the Danish M&A scene representing many prominent private equity funds and blue-chip corporations. 

Henrik has been involved in a significant number of the largest, most complex, sophisticated and innovative deals on the Danish M&A market, not only recently, but throughout the last two decades. During the past 15 years, Henrik has been one of the most active (top 3) and experienced legal advisors in Denmark in the field of mergers and acquisitions (source: mergermarket.com, measured by number of transactions), and during the same period he has been one of the most active lawyers in the Nordic region.

Through his LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School (2001), his licence to practise law in New York and his subsequent employment at White & Case (New York) for more than four years (2001-2005), Henrik has acquired in-depth knowledge of and extensive experience in cross-border transactions. Henrik has continued to nurture his vast experience and network since his return to Denmark. A considerable part of Henrik's client portfolio is international. 

Henrik is the chairman of Plesner's Committee for International Relations and is recognized as a market leader in Chambers Global, Chambers Europe and Legal500.

 

Highlights
  • Nordic Capital - acquisition of Riskpoint
  • Agilitas - acquisition of NNIT's infrastructure and outsourcing business
  • Axcel - acquisition of Aspira (through ProData)
  • FSN Capital - acquitision of Epista Life Sciences
  • Hg Capital - sale of ITM8 to Axcel
  • Kirk Kapital - investment in Cookie Information
  • Marlin - sale of an interest in Medius to Advent
  • Triton - acquisition of Padel Club Denmark 
  • A.P. Møller Holding A/S - acquisition of Nissens Cooling Solutions A/S from Nissens A/S
  • Triton - acquisition of FairWind A/S
  • Axcel - acquisition of Emagine
  • Noble Corporation - merger with the Drilling Company of 1972 A/S
  • Axcel - acquisition of ProData
  • Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners - sale of equity stake to Vestas Wind Systems A/S
  • Kirk Kapital - sale of Globeteam
  • A.P. Møller Holding - acquisition of KK Wind Solutions from Solix
  • Marlin Equity Partners - acquisition of Unifaun AB and subsequent merger with Consignor Group A/S
  • FSN Capital - sale of Fitness World to Puregym
  • FSN Capital - acquisition of Netcompany and the subsequent listing of Netcompany
  • Investor AB - sale of Aleris AB to Triton
  • Marlin Equity Partners - acquisition of Medius from Novax AB
  • Nordea, Danske Bank, Arbejdernes Landsbank, SEB and Jyske Bank - sale of LR Realkredit to Nykredit
  • Danske Bank A/S, Nordea, Jyske Bank and Danmarks Nationalbank - sale of 70 equity stake in VP Securities A/S to Euronext NV
  • Danske Bank, Danmarks Nationalbank, A.P. Møller-Mærsk and Nordea Bank - sale of Danish Ship Finance to Axcel, PFA and PKA
  • Danmarks Nationalbank, Danske Bank, Nordea and 63 other banks - sale of Bankernes Kontantservice to Loomis
  • Agilitas Private Equity - acquisition of Teracom A/S from Teracom AB
  • Umicore - acquisition of Haldor Topsøe's heavy duty diesel and stationary catalyst business 
  • Marlin Equity Partners - acquisition of Bluegarden from Danske Bank, Nordea and a number of other banks and the subsequent sale to Visma
  • Verisure - acquisition of Falck's Nordic alarm portfolio
  • Alipes - sale of EET Europarts to FSN Capital Partners
  • Flying Tiger - sale of Flying Tiger to EQT
  • Saxo Bank A/S - sale of 19.9 equity stake to Sampo Plc
  • Mid Europa Partners - sale of Norican Group to Altor
  • Ørsted - raising of DKK 11 billion worth of new share capital in Ørsted (DONG Energy) from Goldman Sachs, the Labour Market Supplementary Pension Fund and PFA in one of the largest private placements in Europe ever
  • Danfoss A/S - acquisition of SMA Solar Technology AG

Bar Admissions

Member of the panel of experts set up by the Legislative Drafting Committee of the Danish Bar and Law Society on company law and acquisitions


Treasurer at Harvard Law School Association of Europe


New York Bar

Education
2005-2011 Bruun & Hjejle
2001-2005 White & Case LLP, New York
2004 Deutsche Bank, Corporate Investments
2001 LL.M. (Master of Law), Harvard Law School
2000 Admitted to the Danish bar
1997-2000 Jonas Bruun (now Bruun & Hjejle)
1996 White & Case LLP, Moscow
1996 Master of Laws, University of Copenhagen

Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Finance
  • Capital Markets
  • M&A

Professional Career


Professional Activities and Experience
Accolades
  • 2021 2022 Legal 500
  • 2022 Chambers Global
  • 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2021 2022 IFLR
  • 2021 Chambers Global
  • 2020 Legal 500
  • 2020 Chambers Global
  • 2019 Chambers Global
  • 2018 Chambers Global
  • 2017 WhosWho
  • 2017 Chambers Global
  • 2016 Chambers Global
  • 2016 WhosWho
  • 2015 Chambers Global
  • 2015 Expert guides
  • 2013 Chambers Global


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