Dag Thomas Hansson > CMS Kluge > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile

CMS Kluge
BRYGGEGATA 6
PO BOX 1548 VIKA
0117 OSLO
Norway

Work Department

Banking and finance

Position

Experienced financing lawyer assisting our clients in the negotiations and documentation of a broad range of financing solutions. He is specialised in leveraged and acquisition finance and acts for investors, borrowers and lenders (banks and others). In recent years he has been instructed by a number of direct lenders in connection with acquisitions in Norway. He has also acted on several significant restructuring deals in the Norwegian market

Career

2019-YTD Partner, Kluge (CMS Kluge Advoktfirma AS), 2015-2019 Partner, DLA Piper Norway, 2013-2015 Senior lawyer, Schjødt, 2005-2013 Senior associate Thommessen, 2005 Associate, Bull & Co Advokatfirma, 2002-2003 Legal counsel, Nordic trustee, 2001-2002 Senior Executive Officer, The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate

Languages

Fluent in Norwegian and English

Education

2004 Master of Business Administration, Copenhagen Business School, 2000 LL.M. (international trade law), Bond University, Australia, 2000 Cand. jur, University of Oslo

Lawyer Rankings

Norway > Insolvency and corporate recovery

Advising both domestic and international clients, CMS Kluge‘s team provides a wide range of legal services relating to bankruptcy and restructuring matters and ‘possesses a truly unique ability to quickly grasp the issues at hand’. Practice head Hans Ingvald Stensholdt is a competent litigator who assists creditors and debtors with restructuring and insolvency mandates, and Dag Thomas Hansson is a highly experienced financing and restructuring lawyer. Another key practitioner is Thea Killengreen, who has significant experience in corporate law, particularly capital markets work.

Norway > Banking and finance (including shipping finance)

Leveraging the firm’s international network, CMS Kluge offers a full-service practice that regularly acts for domestic and international clients on large domestic refinancings and lending work, as well as cross-border financings into Norway. Snorre Haukali and Dag Thomas Hansson lead the team; Haukeli is noted for his work for corporate borrowers, particularly in the telecoms and technology sectors, while Hansson has a broad practice that spans corporate finance, acquisition finance, and shipping finance mandates. Ida Johanne Bohmann has significant experience working on project finance matters, including those relating to wind farm project developments.