Mr Rasmus Juel Schiøtt > Advokatfirmaet Schjødt > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt
Göteborg Plads 1
9. sal
2150 Nordhavn
Denmark

Work Department

Transactions

Position

Partner

Career

Rasmus Juel Schiøtt is a partner in the Transaction department. His principal work areas are private M&A, private equity, public M&A, venture capital, and capital markets. Rasmus has extensive experience in M&A transactions, focusing on representing private equity and listed corporate clients. He has worked for many of the world’s leading financial sponsors, including Partners Group, IK Partners, Triton, Nordic Capital, Polaris, Axcel and Battery Ventures, and some of the largest Nordic listed corporate clients, including DSV, Caverion and Royal Unibrew. He has been among the most active M&A lawyers in Denmark in the past 10 years, according to Mergermarket. Rasmus has a strong international focus, and he has previously worked as associate general counsel with the leading professional cleaning solutions & services company Nilfisk A/S, listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen as responsible for M&A and capital markets.

Rasmus graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Copenhagen in 2011 and holds a graduate degree in business administration and commercial laws from the Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University. He is a co-writer of the capital markets chapter of “Erhvervsstrafferetten” (corporate criminal law) and frequently speaks on subjects related to M&A.

Languages

English, Danish

Education

2011 – Master of Laws, University of Copenhagen

2010 – Exchange student, University of New South Wales

2009 – Bachelor of Laws, University of Copenhagen

2007 – Graduate degree in business administration and commercial laws, Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University

Lawyer Rankings

Denmark > Commercial, corporate and M&A

Following the firm’s establishment in Denmark in late 2022, Advokatfirmaet Schjødt is a key name in the market for cross-border work, leveraging the firm’s wider network throughout the Nordics to handle notable M&A and private equity transactions. Mattias Vilhelm Warnøe Nielsen and Tobias Bonde Frost, who both joined the group in late 2023, jointly lead the rapidly expanding practice, which also includes office head Jens V. Mathiasen, and recently added private equity and venture capital specialist Rasmus Juel Schiøtt.