Øystein Guvåg > BAHR > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile

BAHR
TJUVHOLMEN ALLÉ 16
PO BOX 1524 VIKA
0117 OSLO
Norway

Work Department

Corporate M&A

Position

Partner

Career

Øystein heads BAHR’s Corporate M&A group and is also a member of BAHR’s Asset Management & Private Equity group. He is a recognised expert on mergers & acquisitions and private equity matters and has for nearly two decades been advising leading Nordic and international private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies and other participants in the market.

Guvåg has extensive experience from cross-border and domestic transactions, typically involving acquisitions, divestments, spin-offs, co-investments, joint ventures as well as other types of transactions. He also advises sponsors and their portfolio companies on corporate matters and establishment of management incentive programs. He also acts for family offices, banks and international industrial companies as well as sellers of entrepreneur-owned companies.

Lawyer Rankings

Norway > Commercial, corporate and M&A

BAHR fields an excellent corporate and M&A practice, which is ‘very solution oriented‘ and has particular expertise in private equity transactions as well as sector-specific knowledge in the oil and energy, real estate and infrastructure industries. Practice head Øystein Guvåg specialises in M&A transactions and private equity matters, while Lars Kristian Sande is the deputy head of the practice and an expert in advising both private equity and industrial investors on telecoms and technology transactions. Svein Gerhard Simonnæs, Robin Bakken and Lars Knem Christie are all key contacts for public M&A. The group also includes the private equity expert Børre Sofus Arnet, Jon Christian Thaulow, who is particularly experienced in the energy related industries, and Erik Langseth, who focuses on M&A and real estate transactions. Anne Dahl Frisak, who particularly focuses on M&A within the shipping, aquaculture and offshore sectors, is also a key practitioner.