Mrs Siril Visnes > Arntzen de Besche > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile

Arntzen de Besche
PO BOX 2734
SOLLI
0204 OSLO
Norway
Siril Visnes photo

Work Department

Financing, Restructuring and insolvency law

Position

Partner. Siril Visnes has comprehensive experience with international financings involving major bank syndicates and complex intercreditor issues. She works for both lenders and borrowers, across industries. Her work involves both investment grade and high yield style financings, comprising acquisition financings, project financings and asset based financing. Visnes is also frequently involved in debt restructurings and work-outs.

She has in-depth knowledge of the entire value chain of products that financial institutions offer typically offer to their customers, hereunder receivables purchase products, leasing arrangements, and various types of cash management products.

Visnes is an efficient advisor who inspires confidence, and is focused on balancing legal issues against commercial factors and thereby provide advice that is both practical and usable.

Career

2020 – Arntzen de Besche – Partner

2017 – 2020, Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS – Managing Associate

2009 – 2017, DNB Bank – Attorney, Legal department

2007 – 2009, Advokatfirmaet BAHR AS – Associate

Languages

The Scandinavian languages, English

Memberships

Norwegian Bar Association.

Education

2015 – 2017, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), MBA in finance

2005, University of Cape Town, LL.M.

1999 – 2005, University of Oslo, Cand.jur.

Lawyer Rankings

Norway > Banking and finance (including shipping finance)

(Next Generation Partners)

Siril Visnes – Arntzen de Besche

The ‘outstanding’ team at Arntzen de Besche has notable strength across the banking and finance spectrum, including providing shipping, energy, and real estate finance, banking litigation, and financial regulatory advice. Trond Kildal heads up the team and stands out for his significant experience advising domestic and international lenders on acquisition financings. Karl Rosén is a key contact for complex financial regulatory matters, while the ‘very capable and commercially oriented’ Vidar Løhre takes point on restructuring and debt capital work, and Siril Visnes handles bilateral financing agreements and syndicated financings. Also in the core team is Atle Stensrud, who has particular experience handling financing transactions in the aviation and oil and gas sectors.