Mr Dan Moalem > Moalem Weitemeyer > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile

Moalem Weitemeyer
AMALIEGADE 3-5
1256 COPENHAGEN
Denmark

Work Department

Corporate M&A

Position

Attorney-at-law, Founder, Partner, Chairman

Career

2017
Security Policy Course (SIKU), General Chief of Staff of the Danish Armed Forces

2008
Moalem Weitemeyer

2001-2002
Visiting scholar (securities and corporate law), Duke University, USA

1998
Commercial Assistant at the Royal Danish Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel

Languages

Danish, English and Hebrew

Memberships

Dan is chairman of the Firm. He also serves as independent director in a number of family owned businesses.

Dan was one of the initiators in establishing the Danish Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (DVCA) in March 2000. He serves as advisory board member of the Copenhagen Centre for Commercial Law (CCCL), University of Copenhagen.

Education

2002
Admission to the Danish bar

1999
Master of Laws, University of Copenhagen

1997
Bachelor of Laws, University of Copenhagen

1996
Bachelor of Sciences in Business Administration etc., Aalborg University

Personal

Dan is a founder of Moalem Weitemeyer and the Firm’s chairman. He also heads the Corporate M&A practice. Dan engages in public and private M&A, private equity and venture capital, capital markets transactions and transactions with real estate.

Dan is recognized as one of the most experienced M&A lawyers in Europe. In the past 10 years, he ranks as the number one lawyer in the Mergermarket Individuals League Tables for Denmark as well as the Nordics in terms of deal volume.

Lawyer Rankings

Denmark > Capital markets

Capital markets work is a core focus of Moalem Weitemeyer with the team specialising in public-to-private deals, and equity and debt issuances; the team is known in the marketplace for its focus on representing listed companies. Finance and capital markets group head Henning Aasmul-Olsen frequently represents Danish and global companies and high-profile financial sponsors. Founding partner and M&A expert Dan Moalem is another key point of contact.

Denmark > Commercial, corporate and M&A

(Leading individuals)

Dan MoalemMoalem Weitemeyer

High-end corporate and M&A mandates are the core pillar of Moalem Weitemeyer’s practice, which has strength across private equity, venture capital and complex cross-border transactions. Henning Aasmul-Olsen heads up capital markets and corporate finance group and is praised as ‘a very robust and experienced M&A lawyer with a great eye for all possible challenges and a good commercial eye’. Firm chairman Dan Moalem’s practice emphasises public M&A; he is often engaged on high-profile public takeover and defence mandates in Denmark. Poul Guo is another important port of call with extensive experience in private equity, M&A and employment law. Of the associates, Thomas Enevoldsen advises start-ups in connection with investment rounds, as well as providing general advice within corporate and company law.