Elise Ross-Hansen
- Employment
- ESG
- Legal Investigations

Elise Ross-Hansen has substantial labour and employment law experience rendering advice in a broad range of areas, including M&A, private equity, restructuring, compensation and incentive schemes as well as financial sector regulation relating to employees. Her experience also covers employee aspects in connection with investigations, equal opportunity and discrimination matters. Elise is a skilled negotiator and litigator, as well as a trained mediator.
Highlights (Panel content)
Featured cases
- Employment and labour aspects related to a number of corporate investigations on behalf of Denmark’s largest bank, Danske Bank, including investigations related to Estonia/AML and investment products
- Amgen, Inc., a multinational listed biopharmaceutical company, on employment and labour aspects related to its USD 157 million public-to-private acquisition of Nuevolution AB
- Evolva, a Swiss listed company, on employment and labour matters in connection with a major site consolidation, centralizing research and development activities at its headquarters in Switzerland
- HMN Naturgas I/S, Denmark’s largest natural gas distributor, on the employment and labour aspects associated with the sale of HMN GasNet P/S to Energinet
- Employment related matters associated with global asset management business First State Investments and investment management firm Hermes Investment Management’s acquisition of a 65% share in Scandlines
- Complex employment matters in relation to Danish holding company A.P. Moller Holding A/S’s acquisition of Maersk Tankers A/S and securing of a strategic relationship with Mitsui and Co. Ltd.
- Employment advice, including advice on collective bargaining matters and litigation, to Copenhagen Metro Team in relation to the ongoing EUR 3 billion Copenhagen Cityringen Metro Project
- International private equity firm CVC Capital Partners and GRO Capital on employment and labour matters in connection with the acquisition of Omada
- Employment issues associated with large Danish pension fund Danica Pension’s DKK 6.9 billion sale of 50% of Danica’s real estate portfolio consisting of 16 shopping centres
- William Demant, world leader of hearing healthcare, on employment and labour matters in connection with the division of Sennheiser Communications A/S
Rankings (Panel content)
Elise Ross-Hansen is topranked in Chambers and Partners.
"Elise has a strong commercial vision and is strong in terms of sophistication. Her client service is very strong. She is a pleasure to work with. She really understands our challenges and where we come from, so I feel that the role she plays with us is as a true partner. She is good at helping us out with pragmatic solutions that are not overly lawyerly, while still maintaining professionalism". (Client testimonial, Chambers and Partners, 2022).
"Elise Ross-Hansen is skilled and has great business acumen understanding to translate complicated legal issues to useful advice." (Client testimonial, The Legal 500, 2022)
Publikationer (Panel content)
Publication by The Danish Bar and Law Society on employment policies, 2007.
Medlemskaber (Panel content)
Member of
- Danish and European Employment Lawyers’ Associations.