NORWAY Law and Practice Contributed by: Karoline Ulleland Hoel, Sigurd Opedal, Ole Henrik Wille and Daniel Nygaard Nyberg, Wikborg Rein Advokatfirma AS
Wikborg Rein Advokatfirma AS is one of Norway’s leading law firms. Headquartered in Oslo, the firm has offices in Bergen, Stavanger, London, Singapore and Shanghai. Its private equity team advises major Norwegian and international private equity and ven - ture capital funds, managers and investors, across all phases and aspects of a private equity fund’s life cycle, including fund structuring and establishment, mergers and acquisitions, public-to-private trans -
actions, auctions, restructurings, and exit strate - gies. The firm has provided assistance to a number of leading private equity companies, including KKR, American Industrial Partners, General Atlantic, Nor - dic Capital, FSN Capital, Altor, Summa Equity, Apax, EQT, and Antin Infrastructure Partners, in addition to numerous secondary transactions for the largest pri - vate equity fund-of-fund managers in Norway.
Authors
Karoline Ulleland Hoel is a specialist counsel in Wikborg Rein’s asset management team, with extensive experience advising alternative asset managers and professional investors on fund formation, transactions (including primaries, secondaries, co-investments and continuation vehicles), compliance and governance, with particular experience in private equity. She has also led several private equity- related M&A transactions.
Ole Henrik Wille is a partner at Wikborg Rein’s Oslo office and heads the firm’s corporate, finance and tax department. He primarily works on private and public mergers and acquisitions and private equity
transactions. In recent years, he has led several major mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, both in Norway and abroad, advising major Nordic and international private equity clients, amongst others. He also has extensive experience and expertise in company law.
Sigurd Opedal is a partner at Wikborg Rein’s Oslo office and chairperson of the firm’s board. Mr Opedal heads the firm’s mergers and acquisitions and private equity team and has advised most Nordic and international private
Daniel Nygaard Nyberg leads Wikborg Rein’s asset management team. He advises on fund establishment, negotiations, structuring, tax, co-investments, and acquisitions. He represents
equity clients in Norway on acquisitions, divestments, investments, restructurings and public-to-private transactions, and has extensive experience within the private equity industry.
institutional investors and has led several significant mergers and acquisitions at management company level/GP stakes deals. Daniel also advises on incentive schemes for management and key employees.
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