Mr Claus Aagaard Nielsen > Bech-Bruun > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile

Bech-Bruun remains among the Danish market leaders for corporate, commercial and M&A work and the group’s focuses include advising on private equity transactions, M&A within the energy, life sciences and technology sectors, and complex venture capital work. The ‘very dedicated’ Simon Milthers, Jakob Kristensen and Claus Aagaard Nielsen jointly head up the practice group; Milthers is a highly experienced expert in M&A and company law, while Kristensen is routinely engaged on both buy and sell-side M&A mandates, particularly in the renewable energy space, and Aagaard Nielsen spearheads many of the team’s major domestic and international transactions. Pre-eminent M&A practitioner Jacob Hjortshøj is a leading name for advising private equity funds. Other key names to note include company law expert Søren Kamp Nørbæk, as well as Andreas Nielsen and Christian Eichen, who both arrived from Bruun & Hjejle in January 2023.

Bech-Bruun’s media and entertainment group possesses the bandwidth to handle the entire breadth of matters concerning social media, TV, film, music, gaming, entertainment, and rights administration, among others. Licensing matters, dispute resolution and transactional work are core specialisms of the ‘strong team’. ‘Outstanding expert’ Niels M. Andersen lends his extensive knowledge to all types of matters concerning IT, telecoms, technology and commercial contracts, as well as entertainment, film and music. Andersen jointly heads up the team alongside M&A specialist Claus Aagaard Nielsen, who is noted for his expertise in high-end transactions in the fashion, e-commerce and pharmaceutical industries, and the TMT and energy sectors.