Selected recent deals

  • Advising Coca -Cola Enterprises on its USD 880 million acquisition of the Coca - Cola Company’s bottling operations in Norway and Sweden.  
  • Advising Citibank International on its sale of its Norwegian consumer finance business to Gjensidige Bank for an undisclosed consideration.
  • Advising Berlian Laju Tankers, a Jakarta-based shipping company, on its potential  € 1.1 billion takeover offer for Oslo-based shipping company Camillo Eitzen & Co.
  • Advising Schibsted on its sale of Basefarm to Reiten & Co. 
  • Advising Axel Springer on its € 82 million take - private offer of OSE-listed StepStone, the European online recruitment company.  
  • Advising E-CO Vannkraft on its €175 million sale of its 30 % stake in EB Kraftproduksjon to Energiselskapet Buskerud. 
  • Advising Norvestor Equity on its divestment of Intelecom Group to Carrot Communications for an undisclosed value.
  • Advising HitecVision Private Equity on establishment of a 50/50 joint venture with Rieber Shipping including Rieber 58 % stake in Technocean, and another 50%50 joint venture with the Skogen family for the take - over offer for all of OSE-listed Grenland Group, an offshore oil and gas contractor.
  • Advising Bokn Invest, a joint holding company owned by Aker Capital Fund and HitecVision Private Equity on its € 74 million take – over offer for OSE-listed Bjørge, an oil and gas industry product supplier.
  • Advising Aker Solutions on its sale of 33% of OSE-listed Odim, a naval and defence solutions provider, to Rolls-Royce.
  • Advising Aker Exploration on its € 530 million merger with Det norske oljeselskap to create the second largest operator on the Norwegian continental shelf after StatoilHydro.
  • Advising Nordkraft (formerly Narvik Energi) on its acquisition of Fjellkraft.
  • Advising OSE-listed Aker Solutions, a company partly owned by Aker Holdings (Aker, the Norwegian Government and the Swedish Investor (Wallenberg) Group) on the purchase of a number of stakes in a range of other Aker subsidiaries.
  • Advising Scottish Power/Ebodrola in relation to its acquisition of shares in Hammerfest Strøm.
  • Advising Scandza (a Lindsay Goldberg portfolio company) on its € 69 million acquisition one of the OSE-listed fast moving consumer goods company, Synnøve Finden.
  • Advising HitecVision on its USD 120 million engagement in Spring Energy Norway, an oil exploration company with licences on the Norwegian and British continental shelfs.
  • Advising Glitnir Bank on Sparebank1-Gruppen’s acquisition of the bank after the bankruptcy of the Icelandic parent bank.
  • Advising CGG Veritas in connection with its acqusition of OSE-listed Wavefield Inseis, in a deal valuing Wavefield at € 250 million.
  • Advising China Oilfield Services Limited in connection with its acquisition of the OSE-listed Awilco Offshore in a deal valuing Awilco at € 2.4 billion.
  • Advising Teekay Corp. on its acquisition of a major minority stake in OSE-listed Teekay Petroljarl in a deal valuing the company at € 551 million, with subsequent squeeze-out of remaining minority shareholders and delisting.
  • Advising Trico Marine Services on its €441 million acquisition in OSE-listed Deep Ocean.