About

Daniel Lindebjerg Haaland landed his first legal position at law firm Selmer, working on high yield bonds, banking, corporate, and security law matters. This led Haaland onto a secondment as corporate legal counsel at NASDAQ OMX Commodities Europe which gave him invaluable experience on how the energy market works; something which would prove useful when he was later appointed as corporate legal counsel in REC (Renewable Energy Corporation), a leading vertically integrated solar energy company at the time. During his time in REC, he advised REC’s executive management on the improvement of REC’s debt position through a series of capital market transactions, including a new USD convertible bond issuance, several equity issues, debt buy-back and amendment of terms and size revolving credit facility. Haaland proved himself as respected part of management project team in these processes and in execution of the spin-off of REC’s downstream operating division through an IPO of REC Solar on the Oslo Stock Exchange. After the IPO, Haaland acted as board secretary for REC Solar, a role he also held after having joined the corporate, banking and finance team of the law firm Schjødt. In 2015, Haaland landed his current position as General counsel for the Extrusion Europe business area of the global aluminium products manufacturer Sapa, overseeing legal matters for a business employing 10,000 people at 40 locations across Europe.