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Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS Offices

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS
Ruseløkkveien 38, 0251 Oslo
PO Box 1484 Vika
NO-0116 Oslo
Norway
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Mr Baard Bale

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+4723111155 bba@thommessen.no

Work Department

M&A and Corporate law; Private Equity; Capital Markets

Position

Partner. Mr Baard Bale focuses on, and has significant experience with, equity transactions and advises corporate clients, private equity sponsors and leading investment banks in a wide range of M&A transactions and IPOs. He is ranked as one of the leading M&A lawyers in Norway.

Career

2006-current Partner, Thommessen, Oslo; 2002-2006 Lawyer, Oslo office, Thommessen; 1998-2000 Member of the CEO Task Force, The Kværner Group, London; 1996-1998 Legal Director, Kværner Process Division, London; 1993-1996 Company Secretary and in-house lawyer, Kværner ASA, Oslo; 1992-1993 Lawyer, Kværner ASA, Oslo; 1990-1992 Associate, BA-HR lawfirm, Oslo; 1989-1990 Research Assistant, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo

Languages

English

Memberships

Norwegian Bar Association

Education

1990 Candidate in Jurisprudence, University of Oslo

Lawyer Rankings

Norway > Commercial, corporate and M&A

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS is ‘capable, pragmatic and solution oriented‘ and is sought after for its expertise in public and private cross-border M&A work, particularly in combination with equity issues and debt financings. Practice head Christian Grüner Sagstad acts for a variety of private equity companies and other clients on M&A and equity capital markets transactions. Hans Cappelen Arnesen  is a capital markets and M&A expert, who advises a variety of corporate clients, private equity houses and investment banks; and Anders Arnkværn is highly experienced in public and private M&A and capital market transactions. The group also includes Ervin Auren, who advises on national and international M&A and capital markets transactions; and Baard Bale, who acts in numerous public and private M&A and capital markets transactions. Tore Mydske, who has great ‘commercial skills‘, and Solveig Fagerheim Bugge are also key contacts.

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