Ms Caroline Bruyant Bonde > Advokatfirmaet Schjødt > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt
Göteborg Plads 1
9. sal
2150 Nordhavn
Denmark

Work Department

Banking & Finance

Position

Partner

Career

Caroline is a partner in our Finance practice group. She acts for Scandinavian and international banks, financial institutions, private equity sponsors, credit funds, and corporate borrowers, advising on asset, project, acquisition, and corporate financing. Her work includes structuring loan transactions and drafting and negotiating contracts, including loan and security documentation, for bilateral and syndicated financings.

Caroline also advises asset managers and financial institutions on financial regulation and fund formation. She has extensive experience with alternative investments, including due diligence and negotiation of investment terms in private equity, credit, infrastructure, real estate, venture capital, and fund-of-funds.

In addition to her work with financing, Caroline focuses on shipping and energy transactions and regularly advises the various parties involved in such transactions, including shipowners, industrials, brokers, banks, and other financial institutions.

Caroline is a dual-qualified lawyer in Denmark, England, and Wales. She joined Schjødt in 2022, having previously worked in the alternative investments teams at Danske Bank and Danica Pension and for Reed Smith for several years in London with asset and transaction finance. Prior to that, Caroline worked at the Danish law firm Gorrisen Federspiel.

Languages

English, Danish

Education

2010 – Master of Laws, University of Copenhagen

2009 – L.L.M., King’s College, London

Lawyer Rankings

Denmark > Banking and finance

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt assists lenders, borrowers and sponsors with all aspects of traditional loan financing, including acquisition financings, investment grade financings, real estate financings, asset finance work, receivables financings and leasing issues, and has particular expertise in financing mandates arising out of the shipping industry. Dual-qualified Caroline Bruyant Bonde heads up the Copenhagen-based team, which includes managing partner Jens V. Mathiasen as another important point of contact.

Denmark > Energy

(Firms to watch)

Opening its doors in Copenhagen in late 2022, Advokatfirmaet Schjødt has notably added to its energy and infrastructure department with the recruitment of shipping expert Christian Thiele, transactional lawyer Caroline Bruyant Bonde and oil and gas specialist Kristian Gustav Andersson.

Denmark > Shipping and transport

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt‘s Danish practice sits within the firm’s wider Nordic network and acts for a varied range of ship owners, shipyards, charterers, financial institutions and insurers. With particular expertise in transactional work, the group also excels in contentious work, commercial contracts, financings and commodities issues. Jens V. Mathiasen is the key contact in the practice, which also includes transactional specialists Christian Thiele and Caroline Bruyant Bonde.