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Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS Offices

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

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
Fielding a ‘very strong and highly competent’ team, Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS advises an impressive client roster across the aquaculture, renewable energy, oil and gas, telecoms and biotech sectors. Practice head Christian Grüner Sagstad acts for a variety of private equity companies and other clients on M&A and equity capital markets transactions, while Hans Cappelen Arnesen
is an M&A specialist who acts for private equity firms and investment banks, and Anders Arnkværn
has proven experience in public and private M&A and capital market transactions. Other key names for M&A are Ervin Auren, Baard Bale, Sverre Tyrhaug and Solveig Fagerheim Bugge, while Lars Eirik Gåseide Røsås aptly advises on securities law and corporate law.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance (including shipping finance)
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- EU and competition
- Fishing and aquaculture
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- Offshore construction
- Real estate
- Shipping and maritime law
- Tax
- TMT