Søren Thyssen Valerius > Plesner > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile

Plesner
37 AMERIKA PLADS
2100 COPENHAGEN
Denmark
Søren Thyssen Valerius photo

Work Department

Banking and Finance; Financial Services

Position

Søren is a partner in Plesner’s Banking and Finance team. He is a market-leading practitioner with substantial experience in complex transactions. Søren has been the lead finance partner in many significant transactions in the Danish market for more than 20 years.

He focuses on lending and capital market transactions, including acquisition financing, corporate lending, infrastructure, project and asset finance, and financial restructuring. Søren also advises on regulatory issues for financial institutions, including anti-money laundering and compliance matters, and he has worked with a broad range of clients within the financial sector. He advises international and domestic financial institutions, corporations, direct lending funds, private equity funds, and government bodies.

Søren is involved in numerous challenging projects that require a team effort to complete successfully. Members of other Plesner teams are often involved to ensure that we come up with the best solutions possible. Clients seek assistance from Søren and his team because of their ability to provide focused and carefully considered solutions as well as deep commercial understanding.

Søren holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Copenhagen. He is admitted to the High Court of Denmark and holds a Tier 1 ranking in all leading lawyer rating publications. Søren is currently chairman of Plesner’s partner promotion committee.

Plesner’s Banking and Finance team is a leading Danish bank and finance law adviser. 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

(Leading partners)

Søren Thyssen Valerius – Plesner

Plesner‘s ‘highly skilled’ banking and finance practice group is well-known for advising on acquisition financings and cross-border transactions involving Danish targets, and assisting banks, financial institutions and investment funds with financial regulatory requirements and infrastructure finance work. Søren Thyssen Valerius heads up the team and focuses on lending and capital market transactions, including acquisition financings, corporate lending, infrastructure, project and asset finance matters and financial restructurings. Banking and finance specialist Jakob Echwald Sevel is a go-to name for financing arrangements, products and complex transactional work, while Rasmus Mandøe Jensen‘s demonstrable experience in the space includes handling multi-layered, high-yield and leveraged transactions and debt capital markets work. Henrik Kure, who has been notably active in green and renewables financing, and associate Emil Hedegaard Mikkelsen are additional important ports of call within the group.

Denmark > Capital markets

Praised as an ‘outstanding’ capital markets team, Plesner acts on the full suite of both issuer and underwriter-side mandates including accelerated book-builds, IPOs, and securities listings. ‘Incredible lawyer’ Thomas Holst Laursen and M&A expert Nicolai Ørsted jointly head up the equity side of the practice and are key points of contact for IPOs, public takeovers, ABBs, PIPEs, rights issuances and corporate governance work. For debt capital markets transactions, Søren Thyssen Valerius and Jakob Echwald Sevel lead in conjunction with Henrik Kure. Henrik Laursen comes recommended for his cross-border ECM practice, which emphasises IPOs and public M&A. Janus Jepsen was promoted to the partnership in early 2023.