Mr Sigurd Opedal > Wikborg Rein > Bergen, Norway > Lawyer Profile
Wikborg Rein Offices
OLAV KYRRESGT. 11
PO BOX 1233 SENTRUM
5811 BERGEN
Norway
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Mr Sigurd Opedal
Work Department
Company Law, M&A, Capital Markets
Position
Sigurd Opedal is a Partner at Wikborg Rein’s Oslo office and is head of the firm’s M&A practice. He works primarily with M&A, private equity transactions and capital markets transactions. Opedal is ranked as one of Norway’s leading lawyers within mergers & acquisitions by Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, Legal 500, IFLR and the Norwegian Financial Daily and is among the top 3 lawyers in the Norwegian market with the most transactions reported to Mergermarket for the period comprising the last five years.
Career
Memberships
Norwegian Bar Association
Education
2002 Practising Certificate
1998 Cand. jur., University of Oslo
1992 Business Economist, The Norwegian School of Management BI
Lawyer Rankings
Norway > Commercial, corporate and M&A
(Leading individuals)Wikborg Rein has a full-service practice with ‘unique industry skills‘, which assists with M&A transactions in a variety of sectors, including the oil and gas, renewables, shipping, offshore and technology industries. The practice is jointly led by Ole Henrik Wille, who is ‘an exceptional lawyer‘ and highly active in M&A and equity capital markets transactions; Sigurd Opedal, who regularly assists private equity and industrial clients; and ‘highly valued adviser‘ Arild Frick. The group also includes Ketil E. Bøe, who advises investors, securities clients, banks and companies on a wide range of issues relating to M&A, and Kaare Christian Tapper, who is highly experienced in a variety of M&A and other equity transactions. Therese Trulsen, who advises industrial and technology clients on greenfield projects and cross-border transactions, is also a key practitioner.
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
- Intellectual property
- Maritime law
- Offshore construction and shipbuilding
- Real estate
- Regulatory, compliance and investigations
- TMT