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<strong>KROMANN</strong> <strong>REUMERT</strong><br />

<strong>IN</strong> <strong>LONDON</strong>


ABOUT <strong>KROMANN</strong> <strong>REUMERT</strong><br />

Kromann Reumert is the leading law firm in Denmark with offices in<br />

Copenhagen, Aarhus, London and Brussels.<br />

We employ approx. 600 dedicated people, who work together to<br />

provide quality services for our clients. Currently, our employees<br />

include approx. 320 lawyers covering a long list of practice areas.<br />

We represent a vast number of international clients doing business<br />

in Denmark as well as Danish clients doing business abroad.<br />

Kromann Reumert has an extensive international network. Over the<br />

years, we have developed strong relationships with leading law firms<br />

all over the world. This has led to benefits for our clients, including<br />

high-quality, multi-jurisdictional advice and unique access to a range<br />

of specialists in almost every part of the world. We also play an active<br />

role in most international legal organisations, including the IBA, ABA<br />

and AIJA, and Kromann Reumert is a member of the – non-exclusive<br />

– worldwide Lex Mundi association comprising more than 20,000<br />

lawyers from 160 of the world’s leading independent law firms.<br />

<strong>KROMANN</strong> <strong>REUMERT</strong> <strong>IN</strong> <strong>LONDON</strong><br />

Kromann Reumert has been present in London for over 20 years.<br />

That has given us considerable experience and insight into the<br />

London market.<br />

Our main focus in London is to establish and maintain contacts<br />

in the UK for Danish and UK/international clients and to advise<br />

clients involved in cross-border transactions and disputes.<br />

Like all foreign markets, the UK market can be difficult to enter for<br />

a Danish company. Our London office often assists Danish clients<br />

in this process, for instance by handpicking the best local lawyers<br />

and other advisors for a specific client. We are under no referral<br />

obligations but will always try to find the right team for the task<br />

at hand.<br />

Kromann Reumert is a full-service law firm covering all commercial<br />

legal areas. In London, our focus is on banking and finance, M&A,<br />

and general commercial and company law.


CONTACT<br />

WILLIAM KANTA<br />

Attorney, Head of London Office<br />

Banking and finance law<br />

Commercial and company law<br />

Mergers and acquisitions<br />

SHIPP<strong>IN</strong>G<br />

Direct: +44 (0)20 7920 3035<br />

Mobile: +44 (0)77 9962 2201<br />

E-mail: wka@kromannreumert.com


KROMANn BANK<strong>IN</strong>G <strong>REUMERT</strong>’s AND F<strong>IN</strong>ANCE PRACTICE AREAS<br />

Kromann Reumert has Denmark’s premier banking and finance<br />

group with over 40 lawyers specialising in all types of banking and<br />

finance work. The firm’s performance in this area and its reputation<br />

for high quality work has been recognised by all legal surveys<br />

carried out on the Danish market. We provide services in relation<br />

to a full range of finance areas. We act for leading international<br />

and Danish banks, financial institutions and corporate borrowers.<br />

The group also advises regulatory authorities and government and<br />

semi-governmental agencies on a variety of matters including,<br />

in more recent times, on issues relating to the financial crisis in<br />

particular. The banking and finance group also collaborates and<br />

cooperates with the debt restructuring and insolvency groups<br />

whenever specialist banking and finance advice is required.<br />

HIGHLIGHTS OF LEAD<strong>IN</strong>G TRANSACTIONS<br />

1. Advised Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and EQT, the<br />

Sweden-based private equity group, with Agilent’s acquisition<br />

of the Denmark-based cancer diagnostic company. The $2.2<br />

billion acquisition (on a debt-free basis) is the largest in Agilent’s<br />

history.<br />

2. Advised the Danish Export Credit Arrangement in connection<br />

with a USD 500 million shipping line to A.P. Møller-Maersk.<br />

3. Advised the Danish Government through the Ministry of<br />

Economics and Business on the Danish State’s capital injection<br />

into more than 40 Danish banks and other financial institutions<br />

by way of hybrid loans totalling more than DKK 40 billion.<br />

4. Advised the owners (founders and Sunstone Capital) in<br />

connection with the sale of the Danish company Podio to the<br />

American IT giant Citrix. The sale was completed just a 1 year<br />

after the official launch of Podio’s software product. Deal value:<br />

above USD 33.


KROMANn 5. Advised <strong>REUMERT</strong>’s Carlsberg PRACTICE Breweries AREAS A/S in relation to the EUR 5.7<br />

billion financing of Carlsberg’s part of the acquisition costs of<br />

Scottish and Newcastle.<br />

6. Acted for FIH Erhvervsbank A/S in relation to the establishment<br />

of FIH Kapital Bank A/S, a subsidiary used to acquire a loan<br />

portfolio of DKK 15 billion through a loan from the Danish<br />

pension fund ATP.<br />

7. Acted for Danske Bank A/S on the EUR 15 billion covered<br />

bond programme – the first ever issue of covered bonds under<br />

Danish law which featured cover pools comprising properties in<br />

Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland.<br />

8. Acted for a syndicate of Danish and international banks in<br />

connection with the financing of the newbuilding programmes<br />

of an international shipping company. The USD 500 million deal<br />

was closed in the first quarter of 2010.<br />

WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT US<br />

BANK<strong>IN</strong>G & F<strong>IN</strong>ANCE<br />

Chambers Europe – band 1<br />

THE FIRM This market-leading team offers a huge pool of<br />

resources and specialist expertise, and is active throughout the<br />

banking sector. The firm’s formidable reputation and constructive<br />

approach are greatly appreciated by clients, as is its broad practice,<br />

covering general banking, ship finance, derivatives and project<br />

finance. The team’s steady flow of high-profile work recently<br />

included advising the government’s Financial Stability Company,<br />

and assisting Danske Bank with the restructuring and extension of<br />

credit facilities with Sanistål.<br />

Sources say: ”For the broad base and variety, nobody can touch<br />

Kromann. Absolutely on top in every legal area you can think of.”


KROMANn BUS<strong>IN</strong>ESS <strong>REUMERT</strong>’s TRANSFERS PRACTICE (M&A) AREAS<br />

A business transfer today is often a very complicated affair,<br />

commercially and legally, but sometimes things are made more<br />

difficult than they need to be.<br />

Basing our assistance always on respect for the parties’ special<br />

characteristics, wishes and needs, we combine our legal knowledge<br />

with the general experience we have gained through many years<br />

of work in this specialist area.<br />

We provide cutting-edge, industry-focused legal advice, realising<br />

that a legal adviser’s role in any business transfer is to cooperate<br />

closely with the client and with the client’s other advisers, and<br />

recognising that law is only one among many relevant aspects,<br />

none of them more important than the overall result achieved by<br />

the client at the end of the day.<br />

At the same time, it is a procedure that radically affects many<br />

people’s everyday lives.<br />

Experience and insight<br />

Kromann Reumert’s M&A group is headed by specialist lawyers<br />

whose many years of working in the area have earned them wide<br />

experience in the handling of transactions.<br />

This enables us to focus our own and others’ efforts in the most<br />

important areas. We do not seek simplicity for the sake of simplicity<br />

– but our clients should benefit from our ability to see things in a<br />

broader perspective.<br />

We advise sellers and buyers of small, medium-size and large<br />

enterprises in Denmark and abroad as well as investors, banks<br />

and other sources of finance in relation to all types of business<br />

transfers.<br />

Not only law<br />

A business transfer is not only about law. Nor is it about technical<br />

data or bottom-line results only. Our advice to buyers and sellers<br />

of businesses is deeply rooted in law in relation to the specific


transaction, but we also put great emphasis on commercial insight<br />

and human understanding.<br />

Our assistance is not only aimed at implementing solutions<br />

suggested by others. We take a critical view of the advantages and<br />

disadvantages – legal as well as commercial – to our clients of the<br />

contemplated method of transfer, the hedging strategy, alternative<br />

sources of financing, etc. Our clients may rely on our staff to act as<br />

valuable sparring partners throughout the transfer process.<br />

WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT US<br />

Corporate/M&A<br />

Chambers Europe – band 1<br />

THE FIRM This full-service firm has excellent resources and<br />

retains a leading position in the rankings, acting on some major<br />

transactions for clients including DONG Energy, Nordic Capital and<br />

EQT. A major highlight of 2011 was advising Danisco on the offer<br />

by DuPont for all its shares in a transaction worth USD6.3 billion,<br />

the largest deal in Denmark for over ten years. The firm is especially<br />

well known for its expertise in IT and technology law, giving it an<br />

edge in those areas of M&A.<br />

Sources say: ”A superb team – skilled, flexible, quick and<br />

surprisingly reasonable in its rates.”<br />

COMMERCIAL AND COMPANY LAW<br />

Kromann Reumert’s commercial law group offers specialist advice<br />

across the full range of company and commercial law issues.<br />

OUR EXPERTISE<br />

The group assists in connection with all aspects of company law,<br />

including:<br />

• choice of corporate form<br />

• formation<br />

• issues relating to articles of association<br />

• national and cross-border mergers, demergers and conversions


• capital injection or outflow, liquidation<br />

• preparation of and participation in general meetings<br />

• contact to the Danish Commerce and Companies Agency and<br />

other public authorities<br />

• group issues, shareholder relations, etc.<br />

WE WORK ACROSS PRACTICE AREAS<br />

We have more than 120 lawyers from different practice areas<br />

working with commercial and company law. In this way, we<br />

ensure that the client’s particular needs and interests and the<br />

special characteristics, practices and standards of the particular<br />

industry are always taken into account when choosing the most<br />

appropriate solution to any problem.<br />

We believe that the best<br />

advice is achieved by<br />

working in close cooperation<br />

with our clients and developing<br />

a thorough knowledge<br />

of their business.


Kromann reumert’s organisation<br />

PARTNERS THE BOARD MANAG<strong>IN</strong>G PARTNER EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT<br />

Banking and<br />

Finance Law<br />

Data Protection<br />

Law<br />

FOOD LAW<br />

Capital Markets<br />

EMPLOYMENT AND<br />

LABOUR LAW<br />

GERMAN DESK<br />

COMMERCIAL AND<br />

COMPANY LAW<br />

Energy Law<br />

GREENLANDIC<br />

LAW<br />

COMPETITION LAW<br />

environmental<br />

Law<br />

Insolvency and<br />

ReSTRUCTUR<strong>IN</strong>G<br />

Compliance, CSR<br />

and Corporate<br />

Governance<br />

F<strong>IN</strong>ANCIAL REGULATION<br />

AND ASSET<br />

MANAGEMENT<br />

<strong>IN</strong>SURANCE AND<br />

TORT LAW<br />

“ONE-STOP SHOP” SERVICES<br />

At Kromann Reumert, each of the business areas is undertaken in<br />

separate practice groups. Each practice group area is headed by a<br />

partner, who works closely with the other partners and lawyers in the<br />

practice group to develop our skills and deepen our knowledge in<br />

that particular area. Having so many specialist skills gathered in one<br />

firm enables us to renew constantly our services and stay up to date<br />

with emerging trends in Denmark and internationally.<br />

<strong>IN</strong>TERNATIONAL<br />

TRADE LAW<br />

Maritime and<br />

Transportation<br />

law<br />

PROCUREMENT<br />

IP<br />

MERGERS<br />

AND ACQUISITIONS<br />

Public Law<br />

IT AND<br />

OUTSOURC<strong>IN</strong>G<br />

MERGERS AND<br />

ACQUISITIONS – TECH-<br />

NOLOGY AND MEDIA<br />

Real estate and<br />

Construction Law<br />

Life Science –<br />

Pharmaceuticals<br />

and Biotech<br />

OUTBOUND<br />

SERVICES<br />

SHIPP<strong>IN</strong>G<br />

LITIGATION AND<br />

ARBITRATION<br />

PRIVATE CLIENTS<br />

sportS, mediER<br />

AND entertainment<br />

<strong>IN</strong>TERDISCIPL<strong>IN</strong>ARY EXPERT TEAMS<br />

There will be occasions though where our clients will need access<br />

to experts across more than one practice group. When this need<br />

arises, our practice groups work together to provide seamless service<br />

across the differing areas. We place particular importance on the<br />

ability of our lawyers (from whatever practice group) to understand<br />

the commercial aspects of each individual case, to the benefit of our<br />

clients. It is our mission to provide focused, value-added solutions<br />

and advice.<br />

Succession<br />

Planning<br />

tax LAW<br />

TELECOMMUNICATIONS<br />

HR / KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT CORPORATE STRATEGY AND BRAND<strong>IN</strong>G F<strong>IN</strong>ANCE AND SERVICES


EQUAL DIVISION<br />

It is a fundamental principle among Kromann Reumert’s partners that<br />

the firm’s profits are divided equally. This principle ensures that there<br />

is never any internal competition between partners or the different<br />

groups and that we are always in a position to allocate the best<br />

available resources – in terms of professional skills and time – to each<br />

case.<br />

STAY UPDATED<br />

To receive regular updates and analyses from Kromann Reumert,<br />

please sign up for our newsletters at www.kromannreumert.com


K R O M A N N R E U M E R T<br />

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Kromann Reumert’s vision is ”We set the standard”. Good is not enough – we want to be the best.<br />

We provide value-adding solutions and advice with full involvement and commitment. We get there by<br />

focusing on quality, business know-how, spirited teamwork, and credibility. We are Denmark’s leading<br />

law firm, employing approximately 600 staff members, 320 of whom are lawyers. Our offices are located<br />

in Copenhagen, Aarhus, London, and Brussels.<br />

w w w. k r o m a n n r e u m e r t. c o m

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