Søren Thyssen Valerius > Plesner > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile
Plesner Offices
37 AMERIKA PLADS
2100 COPENHAGEN
Denmark
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Søren Thyssen Valerius
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 > 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.
Denmark > Banking and finance
(Leading partners)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.
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