Dealmakers Dialogues Copenhagen: Nordic M&A Challenges and Opportunities in 2023

Casper is a Director in the Nordic Investment Banking team in Citi. Casper joined Citi from JP Morgan in 2022 and has +10 years investment banking experience advising clients across the Nordic region. 

Diverse legal, commercial and financial toolbox through positions as:

Regional Director at ISS A/S
Business Development Director at Hello Great Works and
Regional Chief Commercial Officer at Saxo Bank A/S.
M&A lawyer at Kromann Reumert

More than 20 years of experience within:

o M&A and growth management across industries
o Project implementation and execution
o Business and strategy development/implementation
o International C-level leadership experience
o Business transformation/digitalisation

Extensive international experience from working for companies with global presence, managing and aligning group, regional, and country expansion and project execution with focus on Europe, North and South America.

Headed green-field digitalisation/innovation projects applying agile and design thinking.

Been successful in building high performance teams that could execute and drive change and growth.

Act as chairman and board member in various group subsidiaries and external companies.

Matvej Golyshev is Head of M&A at Novozymes and part of the CFO leadership team. In his role, he is overall responsible for driving inorganic business development activities across the Novozymes group.

Prior to Novozymes, Matvej worked with Goldman Sachs in London in the natural resources group. He focused on M&A and debt structuring within the renewable energy sector. Before that, Matvej was working with Rothgordt & Cie., a Bain & Company spin off in the DACH region. His focus was on accelerating growth for portfolio companies of Private Equity clients in particular in the healthcare industry.

Matvej holds a Bachelor degree from the HWR Berlin and a MBA from ESADE business school, Barcelona

With more than 11 years of experience within Private M&A and Corporate M&A, Tobias heads the firm’s M&A practice.

Tobias is one of the leading Private Equity lawyers in Denmark and is specialized in advising Private Equity clients. He has a significant international profile and works with international law firms on a daily basis. Hehas played a crucial part in many of the most significant Private Equity deals in the Danish market in recent years, including deals for premium Private Equity clients such as KKR, Sycamore Partners, Polaris, Monterro, and more.

Experienced and award-winning editor and journalist with a history of working in national media and corporate communications, including thought leadership. Skilled in editing, copywriting, storytelling and news writing in both long and short form. Excellent communication skills and a strong knowledge and understanding of business and finance. Graduate of City University (Department of Journalism) and the University of York (English and Related Literature).