Frode Jensen has spent over three decades practicing as a corporate transactional lawyer with major law firms in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut. He is today a partner in the New York City office of law firm Holland & Knight, where he leads the firm’s New York-based mergers & acquisitions and private equity practice and represents corporations, investors, and financial institutions in the US and abroad.

Mr. Jensen is an alumnus of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated cum laude from Williams College in 1972 and received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1976, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Prior to beginning in private practice he obtained a Diplôme de Droit Comparé from the Faculté Internationale pour L’Enseignement du Droit Comparé in Strasbourg, France, and was a Law Clerk for the Honorable Edwin D. Steel, Jr., in the United States District Court in Wilmington, Delaware.

Mr. Jensen began his career in private practice with the leading firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City. In 1983, he joined Cummings & Lockwood, in Stamford, Connecticut, then the largest firm in the State of Connecticut, becoming a partner in 1985. Mr. Jensen was asked to join Winthrop Stimson Putnam & Roberts in 1988 as a partner resident in their Stamford and New York offices, where he remained until 2002, rising to become co-Head of the firm’s international M&A practice, as well as a member of its Management Committee and Strategic Planning Committee and the Managing Board of the firm and its successor firm, Pillsbury Winthrop.

While at Pillsbury Winthrop, Frode Jensen represented a wide range of domestic and foreign corporations and financial institutions in M&A and public and private securities transactions, securities compliance matters, investment fund formations and terminations, and corporate governance matters. In 1998, Mr. Jensen acted as lead US counsel for Astra AB, the Swedish pharmaceutical company, in connection with its $70 billion merger with Zeneca plc, at the time the largest cross-border merger ever between two European companies.

In 2003, following the merger of Winthrop Stimson with the San Francisco-based firm of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, Frode Jensen joined Voyager HospiceCare Inc., a company he founded with two others to acquire local and regional hospice firms, as Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel. After successfully launching Voyager, Mr. Jensen returned to private practice at Holland & Knight in 2004 as a senior partner in Holland & Knight’s New York City office. At Holland & Knight, Mr. Jensen leads the firm’s New York-based mergers & acquisitions and private equity practice.

Among his representative clients have been public companies, including Xerox Corporation, Corporate Express, Mitsubishi, Astra AB, Silgan Holdings, Smith Corona, Kos Pharmaceuticals, RailAmerica, and Morgan Products, Ltd., private equity firms Kistefos AS, Saugatuck Capital, Morgan Lewis Githins & Ahn, Saratoga Partners and Apollo Management, and investment banks ING Barings and Thomas Weisel Partners.

Mr. Jensen is admitted to the bars of the States of New York and Connecticut and a member of the Bar Association of the City of New York. He is the author of “Survey of Shipping IPOs in the U.S. Market: 2005,” published by Euromoney’s Shipping Finance Review 2006/2007 in May 2006. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce in New York, the Stamford (CT) Symphony, and the Country Club of New Canaan, as well as served as a Deacon in the First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan. He and his wife have three grown children and reside in New Canaan, Connecticut.