Mr Thomas Maaberg Hansen > Gorrissen Federspiel > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile

Gorrissen Federspiel has a long-standing reputation for representing enterprises domiciled in or with activities in Greenland and has established in-depth knowledge of the special circumstances that apply to doing business in Greenland. The group’s client roster spans Greenland’s main industries encompassing the energy, mining, infrastructure, shipping, transport and fishing sectors, and the team regularly assists Greenlandic clients with corporate and asset finance work, compliance issues, and real estate matters. Michael Meyer, who ‘has a unique overview of Danish and Greenlandic law, especially within competition law’, is head of the Greenland desk, which also leverages the expertise of banking and finance expert Thomas Maaberg Hansen, shipping specialist Peter Appel, and Morten Hans Jakobsen, who focuses on transport finance mandates. The team’s strategic cooperation with Nuuk-based law firm Arctic Law Greenland ApS combines the firm’s corporate expertise with regional capabilities.

Gorrissen Federspiel retains its robust reputation for acting across the entire spectrum of banking and finance law, including acquisition and project financings, derivatives issues and regulatory matters. The team is particularly strong on complex and cross-border financing work, including leveraged financing, asset back-financing, general corporate financing and project related financing mandates. Practice head Morten Nybom Bethe is a go-to name for advising financial institutions and companies on both leveraged and general corporate financings. Pre-eminent practitioner Michael Steen Jensen is an expert on the entire gamut of finance law, securities, securitisations, bond issuances, project finance work and the related regulatory matters. Elsewhere, Thomas Maaberg Hansen is a key contact for acquisition finance work, capital markets transactions, project and asset financings and financial reconstructions. Mikkel Fritsch is another important port of call for acquisition financing, real estate financing and securitisation matters; while Tina Herbing and Maj Signe Mønsted are also key names to note for the full range of banking and finance transactional work.