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Niels Bang is part of our Corporate/M&A practice group and our sector groups for Life Sciences/Healthcare and Financial Services.
As his clients' primary external adviser, Niels provides strategic and legal advice within company law, foundation law, M&A transactions, venture capital financing, shareholders' agreements and incentive schemes. Niels has been appointed Nordic Lawyer of the Year within Life Sciences.
With his focus on the Healthcare/Life Sciences sector and financial service companies respectively, he is recognized for his extensive industry knowledge and experience with transactions in these sectors, as well as for providing practical, business-oriented legal advice. Niels has considerable experience as a board member and active sparring partner on questions of organization and business.
Niels devotes a large part of his time to advising executives and board members and VC/PE funds on both commercial and legal matters. He is regarded as an expert in shareholders' agreements, complex corporate structures and transactions, including share classes/waterfall models, the "hub and spoke" model, ESOP structures and spin-outs, as well as the acquisition and sale of regulated companies.
Niels is Denmark's representative on the Company Law Committee of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) and a member of the board of the Danish Association for Company Law.
Gorrissen Federspiel 1995 -
Partner, Gorrissen Federspiel since 2006
Chairman of the Board, Gorrissen Federspiel 2020 - 2026
New York Bar Association, The Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice Initiatives, New York 2003 - 2004
Justice Claus Gulmann's Cabinet, The European Court of Justice, Luxembourg 1999 - 2000
Linklaters, Paris 1999
Admitted to the Danish Bar 1998
Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium 1995 - 1996
Master of Laws, University of Copenhagen 1995
English, French
Niels Bang is 'Thought Leader M&A and Governance 2023' i Who's Who Legal og 'recommended' in Legal 500 and Who's Who Legal Life Sciences - Transactional.
On commercial foundations in Revision & Regnskabsvæsen 2021, no. 7, page 44 and 2021, no. 8, page 56.
Author on the chapter on Denmark in "Directors Liability - A Worldwide Review, Third Edition, Wolters Kluwer, 2016.
Co-author of the chapter on Denmark in Company Directors, European Lawyer 2012.
Co-author of the chapter on Denmark in "Shareholders' rights", European Lawyer, 1st edition 2011, 2nd edition 2015.
"Corporate Governance in small and medium sized enterprices", Newsletter of the Danish Chamber of Commerce, No.3, 2010.
"Ejeraftaler efter selskabslovens § 82" (Shareholders' agreement after the new section 82 of the Companies Act), in Nordisk Tidsskrift for selskabsret 2009, no. 4 p. 79-90.
"Praktiske erfaringer med retningslinijer for incitamentsaflønning" (ractical experience with guidelines for incentive remuneration), in Nordisk Tidsskrift for selskabsret 2008, no 3 p. 7.
Aktionærlån i praksis, (shareholder loans in practice) Nordisk Tidsskrift for Selskabsret 2004, no. 4, p. 444.
Danish Take-overs Dividends from Target to the Purchaser, Newsletter of the Mergers & Acquisitions Commission, Union Internationale des Avocats, September 2004, no. 8, p. 13.
Book reveiw - Erik Werlauff: EU Company Law, EU-ret & Menneskeret 2003, p. 175.
Fradrag for indbetalinger til udenlandske pensionsordninger (deduction for contributions to foreign pension schemes), Revision & Regnskabsvæsen 2003, no. 6, p. 29.
Omlægning af regnskabsår og indkomstår (rescheduling of accounting year and income year), Tidsskrift for Skatteret 2003, 369.
Valg af selskabsform (choice of company type), INSPI 2002, nos. 7, p. 26.
Det europæiske selskab (the European company), Revision & Regnskabsvæsen 2002, no. 1, p. 6.
EU-ret og skatteret (Community law and tax law), Tidsskrift for Skatter og Afgifter 2001, 659.
Book review E. Lego Andersen: Aktionæroverenskomster (shareholders agreements), Revision & Regnskabsvæsen 2000, no. 12, p. 50.
Støtteerklæringer, (letters of comfort) Revision & Regnskabsvæsen 1999, no. 11, p. 8.
Uformel opløsning af anpartsselskaber (informal dissolution of private limited companies), The Danish Weekly Law Reports 1999 B, p. 370.
Privates rettigheder ved medlemsstaters overtrædelse af EF-retten (the rights of private individual in connection with violation of Community law by the member states), The Danish Weekly Law Reports 1998 B, p. 165.
Squeeze-Out of Minority Shareholders, European Counsel 1998, no. 3, page 34.
Author of the Danish chapter on Business Organisations in Business Laws in the Nordic Countries, 1998.
Lovbestemte Monopoler og EF-rettens Konkurrenceregler (statutory monopolies and Community law competition rules), EU-ret og menneskeret 1995, page 199.
Legal Person Criminal Liability under Danish Law, published in casebook edited by professor K. Geens, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, 1994.
Assisted with the preparatin of the Danish annotated Business Lease Act by Niels Grubbe, 1993.
Familiesammenføring i EF-retten (family reunion under Community law), Justitia 1993, no. 3.
International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA)
International Bar Association (IBA)
Danish representative in the Company Law Committee of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE)
Member of the Board of Representatives of the Association of Danish Law Firms
Member of the Danish Chamber of Commerce's committee on advisory and knowhow services
Teacher of company law at seminars under the Danish Bar Association and the Association of State Authorised Accountants
Teacher of business law at the Copenhagen Business School, B.Sc. in Business Administration and Commercial Law) 1998
Chairman of the board:
Advance A/S
Faxe Kalk A/S
Andreas Duckert Holding ApS
FT International ApS
GFJURA 883 A/S
Gorrissen Federspiel Advokatpartnerselskab
Gorrissen Federspiel Komplementar Advokatpartnerselskab
Holdingselskabet af 8. maj 2002 A/S
J. Duckert Holding A/S
MJ Service A/S
Orchestra A/S
PeopleGroup A/S
RelationsPeople A/S
We Love People A/S
Board member:
Advance Holding ApS
Borealis Insurance A/S (captive insurance company)
Cyber Holding ApS
Experis A/S
Fælles Cyber Holding ApS
Henning Larsen A/S
Gudbjorg og Ejnar Honore's Fond
Henning Larsens Fond
Julie Kierkegaard A/S
PeopleGroup II A/S
PeopleGroup Five A/S
Tenneco Holdings Danmark ApS
Upatfive A/S
Viniportugal A/S
Walker Danmark ApS
Member of the executive board:
Advance Holding ApS
Tenneco Holdings Danmark ApS