Ole Kristian Aabø-Evensen > Aabø-Evensen & Co Advokatfirma > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile

Aabø-Evensen & Co Advokatfirma
KARL JOHANS GATE 27
PO BOX 1789
0159 Oslo
Norway

Work Department

Oslo

Position

Partner

Career

Ole Kristian has worked with M&A since the early 1990’s. He was previously a partner and head of Corporate Legal Services and M&A with the International Advisory Firm KPMG in Norway (1995-2002). Ole Kristian has extensive experience in advising on all types of M&A transactions including cross-border transactions. For the past 12 years Ole Kristian has been rated among the top three M&A lawyers in Norway by his peers in the annual surveys conducted by the Norwegian Financial Daily (Finansavisen). The Norwegian Financial Daily named Aabø-Evensen as Norway’s No 1 M&A lawyer in the newspaper’s independent peer reviews for each of the years 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Ole Kristian is also the author of a 1,500-page Norwegian textbook on Acquisitions of Shares and Businesses, published by Universitetsforlaget.

Languages

Norwegian, English, Scandinavian languages

Education

  • Cand. jur., University of Oslo, 1988
  • King’s College University of London, Studies in English and International law, 1992

Lawyer Rankings

Norway > Commercial, corporate and M&A

(Hall of Fame)

Ole Kristian Aabø-EvensenAabø-Evensen & Co Advokatfirma

Aabø-Evensen & Co Advokatfirma is a boutique M&A firm, which advises clients across the full spectrum of corporate, commercial and M&A matters, and is especially sought after by foreign investors for cross-border transactions. Practice head Ole Kristian Aabø-Evensen is a highly experienced M&A practitioner who advises on all types of M&A transactions with a particular focus on international matters. The team also includes Henning Raa, who advises on transactions in the technology, real estate, infrastructure and industrial production sectors; and Geir Johan Nilsen, who specialises in M&A, corporate reorganisations, corporate law and litigation.