Mr Ole Henrik Wille > Wikborg Rein > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile
Wikborg Rein Offices
Dronning Mauds gate 11
P.O.Box 1513 Vika
NO-0117 Oslo
Norway
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Mr Ole Henrik Wille
Work Department
Company Law, M&A
Position
Ole Henrik is head of the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Tax practice. His main areas of practice relate to M&A and equity capital markets transactions. He is one of the most active lawyers in the Norwegian transaction market and has been head lawyer and responsible for a number of M&A and equity capital markets transactions the last years. Prior to the role as head of the corporate practice, he was head of the firms M&A group. From 2015-2017, Ole Henrik was in charge of the corporate division of the firm in the London market. He is a recommended lawyer in international publications such as Chambers, Legal 500 and IFLR1000. He is also top ranked M&A lawyer in the Norwegian Financial Daily’s annual lawyers survey. Ole Henrik has broad experience as lecturer in company law at the University of Oslo.
Career
2017- Partner, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2016-2017 Partner, Wikborg Rein, London
2015 Senior Lawyer, Wikborg Rein, London
2014-2015 Senior Lawyer, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2011-2013 Senior Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2008-2010 Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo/Shanghai
2005-2007 Trainee at various law firms
Education
2010 Practising Certificate,
2007 Master of Laws, University of Oslo
Lawyer Rankings
Norway > Commercial, corporate and M&A
(Leading partners)Wikborg Rein fields a full-service practice with ‘significant market-knowledge’, which handles domestic and cross-border M&A transactions for leading blue-chip companies. The practice is jointly led by Ole Henrik Wille, who is ‘very insightful and pragmatic’ and consistently advises on M&A and equity capital market transactions; private equity expert Sigurd Opedal and cross-border expert Arild Frick. Singled out as a ‘master at maneuvering’, Ketil E Bøe advises investors and banks, while Lars Erik Lien leads the Bergen office, with expertise in stock exchange law. At the associate level, Ingrid Aasa Haavaldsen leverages project management abilities on M&A transactions.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance (including shipping finance)
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- EU and competition
- Fishing and aquaculture
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Regulatory, compliance and investigations
- Shipping and maritime law
- TMT