Mr Cornelius Sogn Ness > Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile

Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS
Haakon VIIs gate 10
PB 359 Sentrum
Oslo
NO-0101
Norway

Work Department

Stock exchange and capital markets
Banking and finance
Private equity
Corporate M&A

Position

Partner Cornelius Sogn Ness is the head of Haavind’s capital markets team. With more than 16 years of experience from handling both DCM and ECM mandates, he is highly recognised in the market for his broad knowledge of capital markets transactions. He has valuable prior experience from the Verdipapirmarkedslovutvalg secretariat and the Ministry of Finance’s financial markets department.

His work has had a particular focus on private placements of high-yield bond issues, listings on Oslo Børs, in addition to advising on ECM transactions and public takeovers. He has advised on almost all of the largest public takeovers completed in the Norwegian market the last ten years. In recent years, he has advised on several of the largest capital markets transactions in Norway, including several private placements of high-yield bond issues and subsequent listings of the bonds on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

In addition to his capital markets expertise, Partner Ness is experienced in M&A and corporate law issues.

Partner Ness is consistently ranked and recommended as a leading capital markets lawyer in Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, Legal 500 and in the Norwegian Financial Daily’s (Finansavisen) annual Norwegian lawyer and law firm rankings.

Lawyer Rankings

Norway > Capital markets

Routinely instructed by clients to advise on the full range of capital markets transactions, the team at Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS handles high-value IPOs, bond issuances, private placements, and public takeovers for clients in the energy, technology, aquaculture and real estate sectors. Cornelius Sogn Ness leads the team and handles both equity and debt capital markets work, including public M&A and IPOs. He is ably assisted by Ragnar Gundersen Koffeld, who acts for domestic and international financial sector clients on equity capital markets transactions.