Claus Bennetsen

Claus Bennetsen is specialised within banking and finance law. He has more than 20 years of experience advising banks, financial institutions and their customers about financing and reorganisation, including acquisition finance, financing of real estate portfolios and other major assets like windmills, and preparation of standard documentation. Claus has special knowledge of and wide experience in organisation of cross-border financial transactions. In addition, he advises Danish and international fund managers, investment funds and hedge funds on fund management, and he also advises on the regulation of the financial sector, including the formation and operation of investment companies. Claus also advises foreign groups' Danish subsidiaries and a number of manufacturing, service and commercial companies, which he has often assisted in connection with acquisition or formation. · HortenDahl

DenmarkBanking & Finance, Investment FundsScandinavian Languages, English, French, German

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Partner specialising in banking and finance with more than 20 years of experience advising banks, financial institutions and their customers on financing and reorganisation, including acquisition finance, real estate-portfolio finance and financing of major assets. He also advises on cross-border financial transactions, fund managers and investment funds on fund management and regulation of the financial sector, and assists Danish subsidiaries and commercial companies with acquisitions and formation.

Practice areas

Banking & FinanceInvestment FundsFinancial RegulationCorporate / M&AReal EstateRestructuringCapital Markets

Office

Denmark

HortenDahl · Claus Bennetsen is specialised within banking and finance law. He has more than 20 years of experience advising banks, financial institutions and their customers about financing and reorganisation, including acquisition finance, financing of real estate portfolios and other major assets like windmills, and preparation of standard documentation. Claus has special knowledge of and wide experience in organisation of cross-border financial transactions. In addition, he advises Danish and international fund managers, investment funds and hedge funds on fund management, and he also advises on the regulation of the financial sector, including the formation and operation of investment companies. Claus also advises foreign groups' Danish subsidiaries and a number of manufacturing, service and commercial companies, which he has often assisted in connection with acquisition or formation.

Denmark

Expertise

Acquisition financeReal estate portfolio financingAsset finance (including wind farms)Cross-border financial transactionsFund management and investment fundsFinancial sector regulationCorporate acquisition and formation

Education

LL.M., the University of London, 1988
Master of Laws, the University of Aarhus, 1987
Auditeur libre, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1987

Admissions

Admitted to the Danish bar, 1991
Right of audience before the High Court, 1992

Languages

Scandinavian LanguagesEnglishFrenchGerman