People: Troels Askerud

Troels Askerud

Partner

E-mail troelsaskerud@eversheds.com
Tel +45 33 75 05 69

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Practice areas

• Banking and finance
• Corporate

Languages

English, French and German

Practice notes

Troels heads up the Copenhagen corporate group representing corporates, equity funds, international and domestic banks, other financial institutions, financial intermediaries and government agencies.  Troels is currently heavily involved in restructuring work (debt and equity) primarily on behalf of the financial institutions and has substantial knowledge within this area having served as a director and lawyer of the Danish entity of  the "bad bank"  Securum set up by the Swedish government in connection with the banking crisis in Sweden in the early 1990'ties. 

Troels' work has furthermore included major M&A's, IPO's and debt capital market work (including EMTN programmes), multi-jurisdiction and project and structured finance ransactions, including acquisition, ship, aircraft, infrastructure and other export financing and securitizations. 

Troels' corporate finance clients include Bank DnB NORD, Bank of New York, Bank of Scotland, Handelsbanken, a number of local Danish banks, Codan, Dong, EKF (Danish Export Credit Fund),  IKANO, Nordic Capital,  PostDanmark, RBS (ABN AMRO) and SEB, and the now state owned Icelandic banks New and Old Glitnir. 

Troels is a senior member of Eversheds' International Transaction Services Team and has over the past 15 years lead, documented and project managed transactions in situ in the US, South America, Continental Europe, Russia and Asia. One of Troels' latest major projects was assisting a client in setting up a consumer credit business (attempted first mover) in Russia as a negotiator and project manager. 

Troels is a founding board member of the Danish Banking and Finance Society and a member of the advisory board of ICOFIMA (Institute for Commercial and Financial Market Law) at the Copenhagen University. Troels also serves on boards of non-profit organisations within the arts, culture and ethnic integration and is engaged in pro bono work for various non-profit projects. 

He has attended legal post-graduate training at Harvard law school (Cambridge, USA) and executive management training at Harvard and IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland).

Troels is one of the founding partners of Eversheds Copenhagen; he is the Managing partner of the Copenhagen office and is the Relationship Manager for Scandinavia

Dansk

Troels er leder af Corporate afdelingen i København og repræsenterer virksomheder, kapitalfonde, internationale og danske banker, andre finansielle institutioner, finansielle formidlere samt statslige organisationer. Troels beskæftiger sig på nuværende tidspunkt primært med finansiel rekonstruktion (gæld og egenkapital) - fortrinsvis på vegne af finansielle institutioner, og han har et stort kendskab til dette område i sin egenskab af forhenværende bestyrelsesmedlem og advokat for den danske afdeling af Securum, der var en afviklingsbank, som den svenske stat havde stiftet i forbindelse med bankkrisen i Sverige i starten af 90'erne.

Troels' arbejdsområder omfatter desuden rådgivning inden for nationale og multi-jurisdiktionale transaktioner i forbindelse med projektfinansiering og struktureret finansiering, herunder virksomhedsovertagelse, infrastruktur samt skibs-, fly-, og andre former for eksportfinansiering, securitisation, fremskaffelse af lånekapital (inklusiv EMTN programmer) samt M&A-transaktioner og børsintroduktioner.

Troels' klienter inkluderer Bank DnB NORD, Bank of New York, Bank of Scotland, Handelsbanken, en række lokale danske banker, Codan, Dong, Eksport Kredit Fonden, IKANO, Nordic Capital, PostDanmark, RBS (ABN AMRO) og de nu statsejede islandske banker New og Old Glitnir.

Troels er medlem af Eversheds’ International Transaction Services Team og har gennem de sidste 15 år stået i spidsen for, dokumenteret og projektstyret transaktioner in situ i USA, Sydamerika, Europa, Rusland og Asien. Et af Troels' seneste større projekter var i rollen som forhandler og projektleder at assistere en klient med opstart af et forbrugerkreditforetagende i Rusland med målsætningen om at være "first mover".

Troels er stiftende bestyrelsesmedlem af Foreningen for Bank- og Finansret samt medlem af det rådgivende forum i FOCOFIMA (Forum for Company Law and Financial Market Law) ved Københavns Universitet. Troels er ligeledes aktiv i non-profit organisationer inden for kunst, kultur og etnisk integration og er desuden involveret i pro bono arbejde for diverse non-profit projekter. 

Troels har deltaget i efteruddannelse ved Harvard Law School (Cambridge, USA) og har modtaget undervisning i executive management training ved Harvard og IMD (Lausanne, Schweiz).

Troels er en af de stiftende partnere af Eversheds, København. Han er managing partner i København og relationship manager i Skandinavien og Baltikum.