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Svein Gerhard Simonnæs
Work Department
Energy and Climate Change
Position
Partner
Career
Svein Gerhard Simonnæs’ practice is primarily focused on advising executives, directors and owners of Norwegian and international businesses on a broad range of issues and projects, both in Norway and abroad.
Svein Gerhard has extensive experience from miscellaneous transaction and market types, involving listed and unlisted businesses, including joint ventures, M&A, IPOs and other securities offerings, as well as the negotiation of such transactions.
His legal fields of expertise are contracts and contract law, company law and securities law.
Education
- 1995 – Cand.jur, University of Bergen
- 1989 – Master in Business, Norwegian School of Economics and Business administration
Lawyer Rankings
Norway > Commercial, corporate and M&A
(Hall of Fame)BAHR fields an excellent corporate and M&A practice, which is ‘very solution oriented‘ and has particular expertise in private equity transactions as well as sector-specific knowledge in the oil and energy, real estate and infrastructure industries. Practice head Øystein Guvåg specialises in M&A transactions and private equity matters, while Lars Kristian Sande is the deputy head of the practice and an expert in advising both private equity and industrial investors on telecoms and technology transactions. Svein Gerhard Simonnæs, Robin Bakken and Lars Knem Christie are all key contacts for public M&A. The group also includes the private equity expert Børre Sofus Arnet, Jon Christian Thaulow, who is particularly experienced in the energy related industries, and Erik Langseth, who focuses on M&A and real estate transactions. Anne Dahl Frisak, who particularly focuses on M&A within the shipping, aquaculture and offshore sectors, is also a key practitioner.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance (including shipping finance)
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- EU and competition
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insurance
- Maritime law
- Offshore construction and shipbuilding
- Real estate
- Tax