LUNDGREN Christian

Over the years, Christian has advised on several landmark and trend-setting transactions in Denmark, including within energy, life science/medico and the financial and industrial sectors. He also frequently advises Danish businesses on acquisitions and other transactions abroad.

The transactions are often “once-in-a-lifetime transactions” where the involvement of experienced advisers is crucial. Christian's clients therefore include several Nasdaq Copenhagen C25 companies, leading foundations and "family offices", and other leading Danish and international businesses. His advice is typically aimed at the top ownership and management levels of the businesses.

Christian has also advised on various regulatory matters which have decisively influenced company and capital markets regulation in Denmark.

At the heart of Christian's advice lies a powerful combination of thorough knowledge of the law and an innate understanding of clients' commercial needs, aiming always to attain client targets quickly and accurately.

Christian is the head of Kromann Reumert's capital markets practice group.

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Background

Career

• Partner, Kromann Reumert, 2002-

• Kromann Reumert, 1997-

• Right of audience before the Danish High Court, 1996

• Cleary Gottlieb, Brussels, 1995-1996

• Pedersen & Jantzen, 1991 - 1997
   

Education

• Admitted to practise law 1994

• Master of Laws (cand. jur.), University of Copenhagen, 1991
   

Languages

• English

• Swedish
   

Activities

• Honorary President, Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA)

• External lecturer, University of Copenhagen, 1997-2003
   

Publications

• "Køb og salg af virksomheder" (Purchase and sale of businesses), DJØF, 7th edition, 2024

High-profile cases

Christian has advised:

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• The board of directors of Topdanmark in connection with Sampo plc.'s takeover offer (2024) 

• Novo Holdings in connection with the acquisition of a majority stake in Single Use Support GmbH (2024)

• Scandinavian Tobacco Group in connection with the acquisition of MacBaren (2024)

• European Energy, including its owners, on Mitsubishi HC Capital's strategic minority investment (2023 - 2024)

• T&W Medical (including the Westermann and Tøpholm families) on the signing of an agreement with EQT concerning contribution of capital into and refinancing of WS Audiology and - related thereto - on the signing of an agreement between T&W Medical and Lundbeckfond Invest concerning Lundbeckfond's investment in WS Audiology in a strategic collaboration with T&W Medical (2023 - 2024)

• Coop Danmark A/S on agreement between Coop Danmark, Coop Amba and OK Amba on capitalisation of Coop Danmark (2024)

• Novo Holdings on a tender offer for Catalent Inc. (USA), including underlying contracts between Novo Holdings and Novo Nordisk (2023 - 2024)

• SimCorp's board of directors on a recommended take-over offer by Deutsche Börse (2023)

• Novo Holdings on the merger of Novozymes and Chr. Hansen (2022 - 2024)

• NKT on the sale of NKT Photonics (2022 - 2024)

• Topdanmark on the sale of Topdanmark Liv to Nordea (2022)

• Triton on the acquisition of Gaia Foods (2021)

• FLSmidth on the accelerated book-building offering (2021)

• FLSmidth on the acquisition of ThyssenKrupp Mining Division (2021)

• NKT on the implementation of capitalisation plan in 2020 (private placement and rights issue) and rights issue (2023)

• Ørsted on the sale of Radius in 2019 and 2020

• Novo Holdings on i.a. investments in NREP and Synlab and the acquisition of Xellia Pharmacueticals and Sonion

• Scandinavian Tobacco Group on i.a. the acquisition of Royal Agio (The Netherlands) in 2019 and 2020

• The Danish owners on the merger of Widex and Sivantos (now WS Audiology) in 2018 and 2019

• TDC on i.a. takeover bids in 2005 and 2018

• NKT and Nilfisk on the demerger of NKT and the separate listing of Nilfisk in 2016 and 2017

• FLSmidth in a number of transactions in Denmark and abroad, including the acquisition of Sandvik’s mining division and the sale of Cembrit in 2015

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• Scandinavian Tobacco Group and the existing owners in connection with an IPO in 2016

• Ørsted (then DONG Energy) on an IPO in 2016

10+ Danish C25 and large-cap companies on capital market law, including disclosure obligations.

Ratings

Based on client testimonials, acknowledged rating organizations have most recently rated Christian in:

• Chambers Europe, Band 1, 2024

• Chambers Global, Band 1, 2024

• Legal500, Leading Partner and Hall of Fame, 2024

• Lexology Client Choice Award, 2024

• IFLR1000, Market Leader, 2023