JP/Politikens Hus sells regional weeklies to Sjællandske Medier

DLA Piper has advised Danish media company JP/Politikens Hus and the local-paper company Politikens Lokalaviser on the sale of 13 weeklies and one business newspaper to Sjællandske Medier, a Danish regional media company. The newly acquired newspapers have a total of 300,000 readers, and in the future Sjællandske Medier will reach almost 1m weekly readers every week. The acquisition will be completed on 1 January 2020.

JP/Politikens Hus was advised by Nicholas Lerche-Gredal, Michael Klöcker, Diana Sloth Nielsen and Christoffer Tolstrup.