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| Lexology (WWL)
Jacob Gunst has extensive experience and expertise in assisting Danish and international businesses with solving complex corporate and contract law matters, including investor and shareholder issues, reorganisations and investments – particularly within the life sciences and tech sectors.
He also provides strategic advice on alternative deal structures, including partnering models and collaborations.
Jacob is highly experienced in venture capital transactions and has guided numerous clients through funding rounds, portfolio company exits, M&A transactions and pre-IPO structuring matters or capital raises. His expertise extends to carve-outs, business combinations and selecting the most suitable transaction structure. In this context, he advises on investment agreements, shareholder agreements, the use of share class structures and various share instruments. Additionally, he assists with designing share-based incentive schemes for both listed and private companies.
On a regular basis, Jacob supports clients in drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts, including supply and production agreements, as well as collaborative projects such as consortia and joint ventures in Denmark and cross-border.
From an investment perspective, his experience spans the entire value chain, from the formation of sector-focused private equity funds and ongoing capital raises from limited partners to regulatory and governance-related matters.
Jacob is recommended as a leading individual by Lexology (Who's Who Legal) which annually ranks top firms and lawyers for their exceptional skills and experience in M&A, venture capital and private equity transactions as well as collaborative and license agreements, including within life sciences transactional.
Gorrissen Federspiel 2007 -
Partner, Gorrissen Federspiel since 2020
Visiting lawyer, Arthur Cox, Dublin 2019
Admitted to the Danish Bar 2010
Master of Laws, Aarhus University 2007
English
Among clients and peers, Jacob Gunst enjoys widespread acclaim for his ability to “give fast, business-oriented advice”, “get negotiations on legal matters resolved without need for principal meetings”, “explain local legal context plainly and simply” and for his “keen focus on specific clients' needs” | Lexology (WWL)
Jacob leads Gorrissen Federspiel's longstanding membership of Biolegis – a pan-European network of independent law firms specialising in life sciences across more than 20 jurisdictions, offering access to efficient and highly specialised cross-border legal expertise.
Teacher of State Constitutional Law, University of Aarhus 2004 - 2005