Advokatfirmaet CLP DA

Alexander S. Lund’s main areas of practice are issues relating to private equity and venture capital, including acquisitions, investments, mergers/de-mergers, business restructurings, other equity transactions and the establishment of venture capital and private equity funds. He is rated as one of the leading private equity and venture capital lawyers in Norway.  

Amund Erdal assists Norwegian and international clients with acquisitions and investments, project development and corporate and regulatory matters, focusing mainly on renewables, infrastructure, including investments in battery, hydrogen and circular economy projects, and green technologies. Amund has extensive experience with acquisitions, investments, and restructurings, as well as the development of renewable projects and negotiation of PPA structures. Amund is ranked by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500, and is also ranked as one of the ten leading lawyers in the renewable energy sector in the Norwegian Financial Daily’s (Norwegian: Finansavisen) annual peer review.

Andreas Kildal has been advising Norwegian and international companies for several years on mergers and acquisitions, sales and restructurings of listed and unlisted companies, both in Norway and abroad. He also advises on listed securities trading, as well as stock-exchange introductions, equity issues and establishing new businesses.

Axel Manø Juul primarily assists clients with financing transactions, including negotiation and preparation of documentation related to corporate financing, acquisition financing and project financing. Axel has considerable experience with bond issuances, with a particular focus on financing of real estate transactions. He also has experience with construction loans, as well as debt restructuring. In addition to his law degree, Axel holds a Bachelor of Commerce in International Business from the University of New South Wales (Sydney) with a specialization in strategic management and accounting.

Edvard Cock’s main areas of practice are in capital markets, public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital transactions. Cock has extensive experience in advising Norwegian and international companies on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, sales processes, restructurings and other equity transactions as well as stock-exchange listings, equity issues and rules and regulations for capital markets, including voluntary and mandatory offers, disclosure requirements and insider trading rules. In addition to his law degree, Cock has an MBA from Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he specialised in finance and private equity/venture capital. He is rated as one of the leading capital market lawyers in Norway.

Egil Jarslett is a specialist on commercial litigation and arbitration. Jarslett’s areas of practice include real estate and property law, construction law, general contract law and intellectual property law. He has also argued a significant number of professional liability cases. Jarslett is an experienced arbitrator. He has taught and served as examiner at the University of Oslo. Jarslett is admitted to the Supreme Court.

Elin Mack Løvdal’s main focus and expertise is relating to real estate; transactions, development, leases, financing and investment structuring. She is specialized in M&A, with a clear focus on all types of real estate transactions, including sale lease back transactions, forward transactions, and syndicated investment structures with tailor-made fee arrangements. She also has extensive experience in both property development and property management, including setting up joint venture structures and negotiating lease agreements. In addition she advises on corporate law including advising board members and management on risk and leverage for distressed companies. Elin Mack Løvdal is also assisting clients with financial transactions, including high yield bonds, bank loans and hybrid capital, and assessing possible capital structures from a legal perspective. Mack Løvdal is recommended by all major international rankings, including Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and Who’s Who. She is listed as one of the ten best real estate lawyers in Norway by the newspaper Finansavisen.

Fred Arthur Andersen is part of the corporate team. He works primarily with mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, financing and contract law and negotiations. Andersen also regularly work with employment law and dispute resolution. Andersen has extensive experience from the financial sector, and has previously worked as General Counsel of SpareBank 1 Gruppen (a leading Norwegian bank and insurance group) and as a lawyer in DNB. Andersen has, in addition to his legal education, an Executive MBA from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.

Hanne Heltne has substantial experience within technology and intellectual property law, with main focus on technology, trademarks and marketing law. She has been inhouse legal counsel for Schibsted and Equinor, and has for many years provided legal advice and negotiated commercial agreements regarding research and development, innovation, investments and M&A as well as different types of commercialization of technology. Heltne in particular works towards the technology, media, energy, oil service, fisheries, retail and pharma sectors

Håvard Skogvoll works mainly with real estate transactions, financing, operation and development. He is ranked as one of the leading real estate lawyers in Norway by Chambers, Legal 500, IFLR1000 and The Norwegian Financial Daily. Skogvoll also serves as arbitrator in commercial disputes.

Jakob Villum has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital transactions, as well as from private equity fund formations, and is also regularly involved in other capital markets transactions, securities law and IT contracts. He is regularly rated as one of the leading private equity and venture capital lawyers in Norway.

Kjetil Vågen has extensive experience in advising clients within the various types of chain operations, with main focus on the retail/trade segment. Vågen assists a great number of chain operators, both franchise chains and chains in which the distributor owns all distribution channels, as well as chains that are a combination of such chains. The client base includes international, European, Nordic and Norwegian actors.  An increasing degree of the assistance Vågen provides is connected to international actors who wish to start operations in the Nordic or Norwegian market by establishing corporate structures, acquisitions, establishing master franchise agreements with the associated sub franchise agreements and/or joint venture agreements, along with the accompanying clarifications of Norwegian legal requirements in connection with, inter alia, the regulatory requirements connected to e-trade (including possible concession requirements for payment companies under PSD2), competition law, privacy laws, with special focus on customer rights. The client base mainly operates within the retail segment, but clients also include restaurant chains and service businesses, such as hotel chains. Kjetil Vågen assists clients with mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, franchise agreements, trademark law, competition law, public procurements, distribution agreements, joint venture agreements, privacy protection/GDPR, lease agreements, bankruptcy and contract law.  

Kyrre Eggen is an expert on litigation and dispute resolution, and acknowledged as a leading litigator in Norway. He has litigated many high-profile cases and is one of the most experienced litigators in Norway of civil Supreme Court cases. As an example, he represented Skeie Technology AS against the State in a principled case before the Supreme Court concerning the reach of the standard parent company guarantee used on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Skeie Technology AS, delivering a principled judgment clarifying the issue at hand (March 2020). Kyrre Eggen also represented Capeomega, Solveig Gas Norway, Silex Gas Norway and Infragas Norge in the Supreme Court in the high-profile Gassled-case (2018). He represented movie rights holders in a Supreme Court case concerning copyright violations in peer-to-peer networks (2017) and he represented Danske Bank before the Supreme Court in a case concerning the validity of two swaption agreements entered into with Bremanger municipality (2016). He is also among Norway’s leading experts in media law and intellectual property law. In addition he is a specialist on compliance, crisis management and has handled several complex cases involving substantial reputational and legal risk. Kyrre Eggen is dr. juris and has published several books and articles, and is ranked as one of Norway’s most prominent lawyers on his areas of expertise in Chambers Europe, Legal 500 and in the Norwegian Financial Daily’s annual lawyers survey.

Lars Gunnar Aas specializes in M&A and private equity, and his extensive experience covers a wide range of international and domestic transactions, strategic investments and cooperation between shareholders, where he represents corporates, private equity/venture capital funds and other financial sponsors and investors. Clients rely on Aas for advice on transactions in all sectors, with a particular focus on technology and knowledge businesses and the renewable energy sector. His competencies also include capital markets and financial regulatory matters, and he regularly advises on acquisition financing. Aas is recommended by all major international rankings for his transaction work, including Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and IFLR 100. Legal 500 ranks Aas as one of the “Leading Individuals” in Norway for Corporate and M&A. He is also specifically lauded for his work in the renewable energy sector where IFLR 1000 rates him as “Highly Regarded”.  

Stephan Brodschöll advises clients in the internet-, IT-, telecommunications-, technology- and media sector with an emphasis on intellectual property law, contract law, competition law, privacy law and regulatory law. Brodschöll has experience as general counsel of Opera Software and advices a number of Norwegian technology companies with an international focus. Brodschöll is also an experienced competition lawyer, and he has for many years worked with digitalization projects and with legal issues in relation to Artificial Intelligence and Big Data.  

Trine Kanestrøm is spearheading CLPs financial regulatory group. She has been in house legal counsel for Storebrand, and has for many years provided legal advice to investment firms, alternative investment managers, securities fund managers, banks, mortgage and credit institutions, pension undertakings and insurance undertakings on financial regulatory matters, commercial agreements and M&A.  Kanestrøm is specialized in asset management, including venture capital, private equity, real estate funds, private dept, infrastructure and securities funds.