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John Emil Lyngfeldt Svenson

Partner
Copenhagen
About

John Emil Lyngfeldt Svenson is a partner in our M&A group.John has extensive experience within M&A and he provides advice within all phases of a transaction process.He advises Danish and international businesses, private equity funds and venture capital sponsors, financial institutions and insurance companies within M&A, corporate governance, W&I insurance and general corporate law.

Areas of FocusCorporateMergers and AcquisitionsPrivate Equity
Professional QualificationsAdmitted to the Danish Bar, 2013
Education
  • The University of Copenhagen, Master of Law, 2010

EXPERIENCE

Before joining DLA Piper, John was involved in a wide range of complex cross-border transactions. Some of the highlights from 2018 and 2019 include:

  • One of the largest global bank’s first ever major real estate investment in Denmark (Rødovre Port)
  • Bain Capital LLC’s acquisition of Diversey Holdings, Inc. (USD3,200million)
  • HG Capital’s acquisition of IT Relation A/S (deal value USD314million)
  • LeoPharma A/S’ investment in the US-based biotech company PellePharm, Inc. (deal value up to USD760million)
  • Danfoss A/S’ acquisition of the public listed US-based company UQM Technologies, Inc. (deal value USD95million)
  • Polaris Equity Partners’ acquisition of ProData Consult A/S (deal value USD78million)
Languages
  • Danish
  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • English

Awards

  • Talent 100: In connection with his stay in New York, John was selected for Berlingske Talent 100 (a list of the 100 most promising business talents in Denmark under the age of 35) and portrayed in an article under the headline “Unique Danish M&A talent in New York”. Read Berlingske’s portrait of John here (available in Danish only): https://www.berlingske.dk/karriere/unikt-dansk-ma-talent-i-new-york
  • Mergermarket: Based on statistics from Mergermarket (a global database of M&A transactions), John is the associate involved in the highest number of Danish M&A transactions in the period 2015-2019 (5-year period).

Publications

  • "The new rules on self-financing", published (in Danish only) in Nordisk Tidsskrift for Selskabsret, a Scandinavian company-law periodical, NTS no. 2, 2010.

Prior Experience

John has worked as an M&A lawyer in New York for a US Tier 1 M&A law firm (Legal500; middle-market), where he handled several large M&A transactions for a number of the biggest Danish companies, e.g. LeoPharma, Novozymes and Danfoss.

  • External lecturer in Company Law and M&A, the University of Copenhagen, 2010-2018
  • Deployed as a captain, Head of Management Cell, Field Hospital, Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, 2009
  • Officer of the Reserves, Danish Army, 2003-2005

Memberships And Affiliations

The Danish Bar and Law Society

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Phone

+45 33 34 01 68
(Work, Copenhagen)
+45 24 81 51 60
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