Anker Sorensen

Anker Sorensen is a partner with De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés in Paris, where he practices in the area of corporate law and restructuring, with experience in upper middle-market M&A work, including the sale and acquisition of underperforming companies, complex joint ventures, pre-insolvency strategy, restructuring companies, debt restructuring and related litigation. His book, Corporate Rescue Procedures in France (1996) was prefaced by the Presiding Judge of the Paris Commercial Court. Mr. Sorensen chaired the French chapter of the Turnaround Management Association until 2007. In 2014, he was named a “top lawyer” by Thomson Reuters and asked to contribute a chapter on “Financial Restructuring in France, Trends and Key Strategies,” published by Aspatore Thought Leadership. Mr. Sorensen is a member of the editorial board of the monthly publication International Corporate Rescue and a regular contributor of articles to the French and international legal and financial press. He holds a postgraduate degree of the EM Strasbourg Business School and is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Strasbourg. He also holds two Master’s degrees in law (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), and he was awarded the Council of Europe Prize (Prix du Conseil de l’Europe) following his MBA at the EM Strasbourg Business School.