Anker
Sorensen
Partner
Anker Sorensen is mainly involved in the sale and acquisition of under-performing and healthy companies on a sell or buy side basis, the negotiation of partnership agreements in France and abroad, debt restructuring, the closure of industrial sites and related litigation.
He regularly advises clients in Northern Europe and the UK.
He was awarded the Council of Europe Prize at the end of his postgraduate studies at the Strasbourg Business School. His book “Corporate Rescue Procedures in France”, published in 1996, was the subject of a foreword by the President of the Paris Commercial Court. He also chaired the French section of the Turnaround Management Association until 2007. In 2014, he was named a “top lawyer” by Thomson Reuters and selected to write an article on financial reorganisation trends and strategies, published in the Aspatore Thought Leadership magazine.
Anker Sorensen is a member of the editorial board of the monthly publication International Corporate Rescue and writes regularly for French and international legal and financial journals.
He is reglarly named by Best Lawyers for his M&A and Restructuring work in France.
He is permanently based in Luxembourg
Capabilities
Practices
Sectors
Focus
Languages
- Danish
- English
- French
- German
Qualifications
- Member of the Paris Bar since January 1990 and of the Luxembourg Bar since December 2017
- Graduate of EM Strasbourg Business School and IEP Strasbourg (First in the order of merits)
- Masters in business law and legal careers (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Bars
- Paris
Professional associations
- Chairman of the French section of the Turnaround Management Association until 2007
- Member of the editorial committee of the English publication International Corporate Rescue
Publications
- Online edition of Insight/out, the Magazine of the Luxembourg Private Equity & Venture Capital Association.The Luxembourg voice of Private Capital “Beneficial Owners – France steps up penalties for non-compliance with reporting obligations”, 20 August 2025
- The Legal 500 Technology and M&A comparative guide, french contributor 2025 with Cécile Théard-Jallu, Aurélien Djafari, Charlotte Hébert-Salomon, Anne Maréchal, Adam Stolcz
- “The Confusion de Patrimoines, a French particularity which enables the extension of ongoing insolvency proceedings to other companies, including abroad subject however to conditions set by the EU Court of Justice for extensions in the EU”, ICR, Volume 22, Issue 3 June 2025, avec Anne-Sophie Leclerc
- “A Criminal Complaint, for Misuse of Information Obtained During a Due Diligence Process to Acquire Shares and Eventually Used to File an Offer to Acquire the Assets of Several Group Companies in Their Subsequent Insolvency Proceedings, Cleared by French Cassation Court, ICR, 2025
- “M&A: Pragmatism a Long-Standing Asset to Successful Transactions”, Insight/out, the Magazine of the Luxembourg Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, Issue 31, October 2024
- To Claim or not to Claim: Aircraft Owners are exempt from Claiming Title in French Insolvency Proceedings”, ICR, Volume 21, Issue 4, 2024, avec Anne-Sophie Leclerc
- “Formation of Classes of Affected Parties in France: The Takeaways from the Orpea Restructuring and Related Ruling”, ICR Volume 21, Issue 1, 2024, avec Charlotte Fraysse
- “Insight into the Application of the New Scheme of Classes of Affected Parties and the Cross-Class Cram-Down Mechanism in France”, International Corporate Rescue, Vol 20, issue 4, 2023, avec Charlotte Fraysse
- “Unusual Times and Unusual Behaviours,”, International Corporate Rescue, Vol 18, Issue 3, 2021, avec Nataliia Ivanytska
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