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Work Department
Commercial, Corporate and M&A
Position
Country Managing Partner
Languages
Kaare Oftedal is an experienced M&A lawyer. Besides overall commercial legal advice in business contract negotiations, he assists clients in connection with corporate transactions and M&A, both national and cross-border, including investments, acquisitions, reorganization and equity transactions. He assists both Norwegian and foreign clients from a broad range of industries.
Kaare Oftedal has in-depth knowledge about Norwegian company legislation, and has extensive experience in establishment of businesses, joint-ventures and shareholders agreements, mergers and demergers, company restructuring, compliance and contract negotiation.
Oftedal also has experience in the private equity sector, including with the creation of - and investment in - investment funds, management and advisory structures, investment in portfolio companies, buying and selling of portfolio companies and other M&A in that regard.
Norway
Commercial, corporate and M&A
Within: Commercial, corporate and M&A
DLA Piper's practice has 'a hands-on and pragmatic approach' and includes managing partner Kaare Oftedal, who is 'effective, exceptionally service minded and confident enough to ask the extra questions other legal counsels might not dare', practice head Sveinung Mjaugedal, Fredrik Lykke and private equity expert Christian Fenner. The group assisted QuMei Home Furnishing Group and Huatai Zijin Investment with its public tender offer for Ekornes, and acted for Urbaser on its acquisition of RenoNorden. Stan Stewart joined from Baker McKenzie LLP.
Electricity and renewable energy
Within: Electricity and renewable energy
Led by Fredrik Lindblom, DLA Piper's practice is a key name for project finance work, with notable expertise in the onshore wind sector. In a recent highlight, Lindblom advised DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale on the project financing of an onshore wind farm project in Northern Norway. Other key individuals include transactional specialist Kaare Oftedal and finance expert Erik Ramm. Dag Thomas Hansson joined Kluge Advokatfirma AS in 2019.