KEMPLAR Bent

Bent Kemplar advises primarily on mergers and acquisitions, commercial and company law, and stock exchange and capital market law.

Bent offers M&A advice to Danish and foreign industrial clients, financial undertakings and private equity funds, including in relation to auctioning, capital raising and stock exchange law. He also assists owner-managers in their succession planning.

Bent advises private, listed and state-owned companies and financial undertakings on company and group reorganisations, mergers and demergers, and issues relating to articles of association, capital structure, shareholders, and corporate governance.

Furthermore, he assists clients in general commercial law matters, including business and trade relationships.

Bent is intensely focused on working closely with clients to find legal solutions supporting their commercial objectives.

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Background

Career

• Partner, Kromann Reumert, 2009-

• Kromann Reumert, 1999-
   

Education

• Admitted to practise law 2003

• Master of Laws (cand. jur.) 2000
   

Languages

• The Scandinavian languages

• English
   

Activities

• Member of the Danish Company Law Association and the French "Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats" (AIJA)

• Lecturer at the board leadership training programmes of CBS Executive

• Former lecturer at the University of Copenhagen, lecturing on 'Purchase and sale of businesses', 2000-2009.
   

Publications

• Author of articles on company law and on mergers and acquisitions.

High-profile cases

Bent has advised on a vast number of transactions, including:

• BlackFin Capital Partner's acquisition of Fokus Asset Management and Fokus Fund Management (2021)

• SBS's sale of SBS Friction to Brembo S.p.A. (2021)

• Sale of Glycom to DSM (2020)

• Rambøll's acquisition of Henning Larsen Architects A/S (2020)

• Danske Spil's sale of a majority shareholding in CEGO (2019)

• Axcel's acquisition of European Sperm Bank (2019)

Ratings

Bent is rated in IFLR1000 (Notable practitioner).

Legal500, Commercial, corporate and M&A