Henrik Kure > Plesner > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile

Plesner
37 AMERIKA PLADS
2100 COPENHAGEN
Denmark
Henrik Kure photo

Work Department

Banking and Finance

Position

Henrik is a partner in Plesner’s Banking and Finance team. He specializes in corporate lending, acquisitions, and project finance transactions. He focuses in particular on the financing of M&A transactions, infrastructure, renewable energy, and real estate.

Henrik has broad experience in complex cross-border corporate finance transactions, with a particular focus on corporate lending, acquisitions, and project finance transactions. He mainly advises banks, pension funds, private equity sponsors, debt funds, and corporate borrowers.

Henrik also has significant experience assisting lenders and borrowers in all stages of special situations in debt finance and debt restructuring, drawing on his extensive knowledge of finance and insolvency law.

Henrik holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Copenhagen and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of a leading textbook on corporate finance law in Denmark, which is mandatory reading at the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University, and Copenhagen Business School. In addition, Henrik has published a number of journal articles on banking and finance law.

The complexity of the transactions Henrik is involved in often requires the involvement of several specialist teams. The teams work seamlessly with colleagues from leading law firms from all over the world.

Plesner’s Banking and Finance team is a leading adviser on banking and finance law in Denmark. We participate in the largest transactions, and our clients include the market’s key players. Our specialists span all areas, including lending and debt capital market transactions, structured finance and derivatives, financial regulation, and financial restructuring.

Lawyer Rankings

Denmark > Banking and finance

(Next Generation Partners)

Henrik Kure – Plesner

Plesner’s team handles large-scale financing transactions and complex financial regulatory issues, with a strong emphasis on cross-border deals. The team’s varied workload includes advising on syndicated loans, secured term loans, project and asset-based financings, financial restructurings and receivable securitisations. The team recently led the financing for Novozymes on Denmark’s largest ever corporate merger. ‘Star practitioner’ Søren Thyssen Valerius heads up the team and leads on corporate lending, financing and financial restructuring work. Other key contacts include Jakob Echwald Sevel, who is a go-to adviser for complex regulatory matters; Henrik Kure, who spearheads the team’s green and renewables financing work; and Rasmus Mandøe Jensen, who is praised as a ‘complete master of details’. At the associate level, Emil Hedegaard Mikkelsen focuses on acquisition and fund finance mandates.

Denmark > Capital markets

Plesner acts for Danish and International clients on a broad spectrum of capital market transactions, and is specifically renowned for its ‘very strong position locally within M&A’. Other key practice strengths include takeover offers, private placements, delisting and demergers, and securitisation work. The ECM division is led by the ‘exceptionally good’ Thomas Holst Laursen, who focuses on public M&A, takeovers and IPOs, alongside Nicolai Ørsted, who is a trusted adviser for complex ECM transactions. The pair are supported by the ‘solution-oriented’ Henrik Laursen and Janus Jepsen. Overseeing the DCM division are Søren Thyssen Valerius, Jakob Echwald Sevel and Henrik Kure, a seasoned trio well-versed in complex restructurings and bond issuances.