Mr Christoffer Bjerknes > Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS
Tordenskiolds gate 12
P.O. Box 2444 Solli
NO-0201 Oslo
Norway

Work Department

Corporate M&A

Position

Partner

Career

Christoffer Bjerknes is a partner in Schjødt’s Transaction department. His principal areas of work are private M&A, venture capital, investments, and joint ventures. He frequently advises on complex transactions in the Nordics, representing mainly Private Equity and Venture Capital funds, Family Offices, and industrial players.

Christoffer has been a lawyer since 2008 and joined Schjødt in 2006. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo. He is ranked as a leading and recommended individual in international rankings, including Chambers and Legal 500.

Education

2008 – Master of Law, University of Oslo

Lawyer Rankings

Norway > Commercial, corporate and M&A

(Next Generation Partners)

Christoffer Bjerknes – Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS

The commercial, corporate and M&A team at Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS is ‘hands-on and professional with a can-do attitude’, and has particular expertise in cross-border and public-to-private transactions. The practice is co-headed by Tord Fondevik, who is ‘a machine when it comes to execution power‘ and regularly acts for blue-chip companies, private equity funds and founders, particularly in the life sciences sector; and private equity specialist Robert Romansky. The group also includes Knut Smith-Erichsen, who co-heads the transactions department and is highly knowledgeable in private equity mandates and industrial M&A; Dag Sigvart Kaada, who assists private equity and blue-chip companies on matters relating to the technology, energy and oil and gas sectors; and Jon Kristian Sjåtil, who focuses on M&A and capital markets transactions. The ‘highly competentChristoffer Bjerknes, who regularly assists private equity sponsors with investments, is also a key contact.