Kim Høibye joins as a partner from Danish firm LETT and will lead the Eversheds Copenhagen Banking, Finance & Capital Markets team. Highly regarded by the industry and rankings such as Chambers and Legal500, Kim advises on financial regulatory, capital markets and financing matters. He has considerable experience in establishing and operating investment vehicles and collective investment schemes (UCITS, hedge funds, etc) and also does IPO and private placement work.
As a qualified Chinese lawyer and fluent mandarin speaker, Diana Huo Sørensen joins the Copenhagen office as a Legal Consultant, advising on the growing Chinese investment in to Denmark, and Europe more generally, and Danish companies on Chinese legal matters. Diana specialises in Chinese commercial law matters, including commercial contracts, corporate transactions and employment law and prior to joining Eversheds, she was a partner at Guangdong Guozhi Law Firm.
Nikolaj Juhl Hansen, Senior Office Partner at Eversheds Copenhagen, said:
“In order to continue to grow our practice across the region and internationally, we always look for new talent to help strengthen our quality service offering. I’m excited to welcome Kim who will drive forward our Banking, Finance & Capital Markets team. He completes the recruitment of a new senior team in Copenhagen following a number of high-calibre lateral hires earlier in the year. With Diana joining us, we reinforce our position in the Danish market as the firm with the biggest Sino-Danish exposure, along with our colleagues in China.”
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