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Professional profile Niels Bang is a partner in 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. Career and education Career 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 Education Admitted to the Danish Bar 1998 Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium 1995 - 1996 Master of Laws, University of Copenhagen 1995 Language English, French