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Pernille Nørkær

Partner

Pernille heads our Disputes & Investigations practice and she is on the Firm’s board of directors.

Pernille provides advice within all legal aspects of corporate compliance, and she has extensive experience within competition law related to M&A. She engages in antitrust investigations and handles cases on abuse of dominant positions as well as merger filings and negotiations with relevant competition authorities in connection thereto, including coordination in cases where the same transaction is to be filed and processed in many different jurisdictions.

Pernille has extensive experience within Foreign Direct Investments. She engages in global foreign investment control review processes and filings in the context of corporate transactions.

Pernille advises Danish and international clients on contractual relationships in a national and global context. She has in-depth experience within a wide range of commercial contract types, including agency agreements, sales and distribution, supply agreements, and franchise agreements. 

Further, Pernille advises a broad range of Danish and foreign businesses on IT and technology transactions and projects.

Pernille has the right of audience before the Danish Supreme Court.

"Highly professional and highly experienced"
— The Legal 500
Career & Education
2009
Moalem Weitemeyer

2007
Admission to the Danish bar

2004
Master of Laws, University of Copenhagen

2002
Bachelor of Laws, University of Copenhagen
Other relevant education and experience

2022
Right of audience before the Danish Supreme Court

2013
Visiting Attorney Program of Bingham McCutchen LLP M&A department

2013
Right of audience before the Danish High Court

2005-2009
General Counsel at PARKEN Sport & Entertainment 
Appointments and other Activities

Pernille is a member of the Firm’s board of directors. She also serves on the board of directors of Astralis Group and Trophy Games.

Pernille is approved to certify and sign the 1-year report which all providers of gambling must submit to the Danish Gambling Authority in order to prove that betting and online casino is being provided in accordance with their licences and the Danish Gambling Act. 

Pernille was featured as a Woman Role Model by Kvindelige Jurister (Female Jurists) in 2022. Read the profile here

Pernille serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the Scott Simpson Cross-Border Institute at Fordham Law.

Recent Recognitions

Pernille Nørkær is consistently ranked among the top Danish lawyers by Mergermarket and is recognized by several major legal directories.

Key Lawyer 2024:

Media & Entertainment and Intellectual Property

www.legal500.com
Transaction Highlights
Public M&A
Represented ROCKWOOL Group in the acquisition of Wetherby Building Systems

Represented Norwegian DNB Bank in the SEK 12 billion acquisition of Carnegie

Represented Consit Gruppen and its ultimate owners in connection with the divestment of Consit Gruppen ApS to The Digital Neighborhood, a portfolio company of EMK Capital

Represented XANO Industri in connection with Cipax Industri’s acquisition of Dansk Rotations Plastic

Represented Dampskibsselskabet NORDEN (ticker CPH: DNORD) in connection with the acquisition of shipping company Thorco Projects 

Represented Equip Capital in connection with the acquisition if a portfolio of companies that were previously part of the Lakers Group, including the Danish entities Elmodan, Electro Care and Electro Performance

Represented DSV Panalpina in connection with the acquisition of a number of companies, including Panalpina Welttransport (listed on SIX Swiss Exchange) and UTi Worldwide Holdings (listed on Nasdaq New York

Represented National Silicon Industry Group in the unsolicited public tender offer for all shares of Topsil

Represented Cobham in connection with the takeover of Thrane & Thrane
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Private M&A
Represented MBH in connection witth the succesful combination of its 100% owned subsidiary, Natupharma, and the Wellvita Group, owned by Capidea, the owners of Orifarm, and other shareholders.

Represented DSV in connection with their acquisition of the global freight forwarding and contract logistics business DB Schenker from German state-owned Deutsche Bahn with a transaction value of EUR 14.3 billion

Represented Wegener GmbH, a German business within semi-finished steel products, in connection with the acquisition of IAI Holding, including its subsidiaries Ib Andresen Industri, Europrofil AB and Europrofil AS

Represented ITT Inc. in its USD 395m acquisition of Svanehøj Group A/S

Represented Montrose Environmental Group in the acquisition of Vandrensning.com

Represented Nexa3d Inc. in connection with the acquisition of Addifab

Represented Polaris Private Equity and current and former members of the management of DXC Technology's Eclipse business, Jørgen Jakobsen and René Ebbesen, in connection with a private equity-backed management buy-out of certain assets and liabilities of DXC Technology's Eclipse business in Denmark, Norway and Sweden

Represented DSV - Global Transport and Logistics in connection with the acquisition of a number of companies, including US-based S & M Moving Systems West and GDL - Global Diversity Logistics, Prime Cargo and of Agility’s Global Integrated Logistics Business GIL as well as the divestment of Panalpina Airflo B.V. (Holland) and Panalpina Airflo Ltd. (Kenya) to Dutch Flower Group

Represented in the acquisitions of Nørrebro Bryghus and Baldersbrønde Bryggeri

Represented Nordic Metal Holdings in its acquisition of 100% of the shares in Alumeco Group

Represented the sellers of EGN Group in connection with the sale of EGN Group to Gridiron Capital owned Vistage Worldwide, Inc

Represented Core Equity Holdings-owned idverde Denmark in connection with the acquisition of Anlægsgartner Lauge Bonde

Represented the sellers of CLOUDIO in connection with the sale to Goldman Sachs Asset Management owned Swedish IT Company Advania

Represented Caverion Danmark in the acquisition of 100% of the share capital in CS electric A/S

Represented Blockdaemon in connection with the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Sepior ApS

Represented Trition portfolio company Moove Group (HB-Care A/S) in the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Aarhus Minibusser from Abildskou

Represented Miniclip in the acquisition of the 100% shareholding in SYBO

Represented IK Partners and Renta Group in the acquisition of LOHKE Materieludlejning

Represented Klaravik Sverige in its joint acquisition of Nordisk Logistik Partner and Dansk Auktions Service

Represented the sellers of Evomove A/S in connection with their sale of Evomove A/S to Stokke

Represented Metafy, Inc. in connection with the acquisition of the Danish company GamerzClass ApS

Represented Polaris and the minority sellers in connection with the sale of its majority shareholding in Designers Company to Design Holding

Represented Kantar in connection with its acquisition of Blackwood Seven

Represented Caverion Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary Caverion Danmark in connection with the acquisition of DI-Teknik

Represented Vestum in connection with the acquisition of Scanregn

Represented Nordhealth in connection with the acquisition of EasyPractice

Represented Aras Corporation in connection with the combination of Minerva PLM into Aras’ business through an acquisition of 100 % of the shares in Minerva Group A/S

Represented LI Enterprises Group in the acquisition of Broen-Lab from Danish private equity fund Capidea

Represented Mellby Gård AB in connection with the sale of Smarteyes to Grand Vision NV and the Synoptik Foundation through its Danish subsidiary Synoptik A/S

Represented the sellers of True Gum in connection with the sale of all shares to the Swedish listed company Humble Group

Represented the owners of Intellishore with the sale to Solita

Represented Nalka Invest in the acquisition of 100% of the shares in the CERTEGO Group

Represented Penta Infra with their acquisition of Waterland Private Equity portfolio company Sentia Group's data centre business in Denmark

Represented Triton Partners and Dantaxi 4x48 in the acquisition of HB-Care A/S 

Represented Augustinus Fabrikker in connection with the private placement and secondary transactions in relation to Abacus Medicine and in the investment in Blazar Capital

Represented the owners of Fokus Asset Management and Fokus Fund Management in the sale to private equity funds advised by BlackFin Capital Partners

Represented Acme Smoked Fish Corp.  with the acquisition of 50% of Norlax in connection with a management buyout

Represented FMC Corporation in the acquisition of Cheminova from Nasdaq Copenhagen listed Auriga

Represented Cisco Systems in the acquisition of DocumentReady

Represented CNH Industrial in the acquisition of the grass & soil business of Kongskilde from DLG

Represented GN in connection with the sale of GN Otometrics to Natus Medical Inc.

Represented INEOS Upstream Limited in the acquisition of Orsted E&P from Nasdaq Copenhagen listed Orsted

Represented the shareholders in ProActive in the merger with Fellowmind

Represented Apax owned AEB in connection with the acquisition of Danmil

Represented Randers Reb International in connection with the acquisition of Itsaskorda, SL

Represented JAB in the acquisition of Baresso
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Private Equity and Venture Capital
Represented Duett Software Group in connection with its acquisition of Traede

Represented Interform and its ultimate owners, Peter Sørensen and Kim Egekjær, in connection with the divestment of Interform to VIA equity

Represented Polaris Private Equity, RelyOn Nutec and the minority shareholders of RelyOn Nutec in connection with the divestment of RelyOn Nutec to Mubadala Capital

Represented Dawn Capital in connection with their series B investment in Flatpay

Represented Blue Phoenix Group, a portfolio company of InfraVia Capital Partners and Daiwa International Capital Partners, in the acquisition of RGS Nordic

Represented the VC fund Transition, as lead investor, in connection with an investment in Electricity Maps in the aggregate amount of EUR 5 million

Represented People Ventures in connection with a Seed funding round in Hakio.

Represented Aegir Insights in connection with a EUR 8.5m Series A funding round made by new investors Climentum Capital and Seaya Andromeda Sustainable Tech Fund

Represented the VC fund Transition in connection with the seed investment in Reel.

Represented Strøjer Capital in its investment in DynaCap Consulting

Represented Valedo Partners in the full exit from JOE & THE JUICE to General Atlantic

Represented L Catterton-owned RealTruck, Inc.,  in the acquisition of Mountain Top from Axcel

Represented Collateral Good Ventures in connection with a Series A investment in the company Re-Zip

Represented Prosus Ventures and Atomico in the USD 60m Series B funding round investment in Corti 

Represented  Waterland Private Equity’s portfolio company EnviDan in its acquisition of Bangsgaard & Paludan

Represented Waterland Private Equity in their acquisition of the Danish market-leading app consultancy agency Shape

Represented Jakala, a portfolio company of Ardian, in connection with their acquisition of global platform agency FFW Group 

Represented Triton and its portfolio company Swiss IT Security Group AG in its acquisition of 100% of the shares in SecureDevice A/S

Represented Prosero Security Group, a portfolio company of Swedish PE firm Valedo Partners, in connection with the acquisitions of Sikring Nord A/S and HARDI-V

Represented Bliksund, a portfolio company of Monterro, in its acquisition of the Danish software developer Incendium

Represented iO, a portfolio company of Waterland Private Equity,  in its acquisition of the Danish market-leading digital agency, Peytz & Co.

Represented  SEB through SEB Venture Capital in its investment in the Danish software developer, Leneo A/S

Represented Bano Group, a portfolio company of Waterland Private Equity, in its acquisition of J. Honoré Care

Represented PSG in connection with the USD +50m Series B investment round in ZeroNorth with participation from A.P. Moller Holding and Cargill

Represented KKR & Co. Inc. and Bettcher Industries in the acquisition of Frontmatec from Nordic private equity company Axcel

Represented Monterro in connection with the acquisition of the Danish software developer, TimeXtender.

Represented Sycamore Partners and its portfolio company, Pure Fishing, in connection with the acquisition of Svendsen Sport from Maj Invest

Represented Viking Venture in the acquisition of WorkPoint

Represented Danish private equity fund Polaris' portfolio company Designers Company in the acquisition of Brdr. Petersen and global rights for all Ib Kofod-Larsen designs.

Represented Polaris Private Equity, owned Designers Company, the company behind MENU and the Audo, in the acquisition of By Lassen as an add-on to MENU Holding

Represented Kinnevik AB in the Series A Investment in Danish tech startup Superb

Represented private equity firm Great Hill Partners in connection with the USD 55m investment in eloomi

Represented Erhvervsinvest in a series of transactions in which Erhvervsinvest divested its 50% shareholding in Container Centralen A/S (“CC”) to the Dutch trade association for wholesalers of flowers and plants (VGB) and acquired both CC’s retail activities and CC’s green activities in North America

Represented FSN Capital V in connection with the acquisition of iMPREG Group

Represented EQT in the acquisition of GlobalConnect

Represented Centerbridge Partners-owned APCOA Parking in the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Onepark

Represented Waterland Private Equity and its portfolio company Within Reach Holding in connection with the acquisition of ipnordic as well as represented Waterland Private Equity Investments in connection with the acquisition of ICO Concerts, ICO Touring & Management, Blixten & Co, Maloney Concerts, Atomic Soul Booking and Friction

Represented Erhvervsinvest Management in connection with the acquisition of Arminox, Arminox Middle East and PCH Engineering as well as in the sale of Mejerigaarden Investment to Food Union

Represented Erhvervsinvest IV in connection with the acquisition of Roblon Engineering and Bogballe as well as represented Erhvervsinvest II in Altor Equity Partners AB’s acquisition of Tresu Investments

Represented Polaris Private Equity in connection with the acquisition of Falck Safety Services Holding and Configit as well as in connection with the public takeover bid for NASDAQ Copenhagen listed Mols-Linien

Represented Segulah Private Equity and its portfolio company Semantix in the acquisition of Texminded

Represented 3i Infrastructure and AMP Capital in connection with the acquisition of Esvagt

Represented Agilitas Private Equity in the acquisition of City Container Danmark, City Container, City Container Fyn and Norrecco and Agilitas Partners in the acquisition of ISS Damage Control

Represented Vitruvian Partners in the private placement in Trustpilot
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Media, Sports & Entertainment
Provides ongoing legal advice to the leading esports organization Astralis Group, including in the drafting of its historic sponsorship agreement with major Danish sports and fashion brand Hummel

Provides ongoing legal advice to Danish football club FC Nordsjælland, including through disputes related to international player transfers and agents’ agreements

Provides ongoing legal advice to international online gaming entertainment and solutions provider Group 888, including regulatory advice related to Danish Gambling license

Provides ongoing legal advice to international online gaming entertainment provider Tipwin, including through negotiations with the Danish Gambling Authority

Provides ongoing legal advice to Egencia, a leading provider of corporate travel management, through drafting and negotiations of Danish contracts
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Real Estate M&A
Represented Capital Investment in connection with the sale to Oslo Stock Exchange listed Storebrand Asset Management. 

Represented the owners of Fokus Asset Management and Fokus Fund Management (a leading Danish real estate asset and fund manager) in the sale to private equity funds advised by BlackFin Capital Partners
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Selected Publications

Foreign Direct Investment screening in Denmark – One Year with the Danish FDI Regime
Nordisk Tidsskrift for Selskabsret no. 4/2022, pp. 13-21, Nørkær, P. & Rasmussen, J. (2022)

Five months down the line: the new regime in Denmark
Nørkær, P., & Thomsen, M. (2012)

Handling of employee shares in light of recent pratice
Nordisk Tidsskrift for Selskabsret no. 3/2010, p. 87-95, Nørkær, P., & Zobel, L. (2010)

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