M&A boutique Aabø-Evensen & Co Advokatfirma offers ‘sound business advice’ across the full range of corporate, commercial and M&A matters. Practice head Ole Kristian Aabø-Evensen advises on all types of M&A transactions including cross-border transactions. Other key names include Henning Raa, who takes point on transactions in the technology, real estate, infrastructure industries, and Andre Høgdahl, who joined from BAHR in January 2024 and advises private equity sponsors and other clients on M&A. Geir Johan Nilsen left the team in November 2024.
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- ‘Aabø-Evensen is a commercial, thoughtful, and effective law firm. A top-notch M&A team, providing sound business advice. Extremely knowledgeable and adding a lot of value to any M&A deal.’
‘Ole Kristian Aabø-Evensen is always well prepared, very commercial, creative, thorough, does not leave anything to coincidences and is one of the best negotiators I’ve met.’
‘Ole Kristian Aabø-Evensen is the best M&A lawyer; He’s an “Icon”. Another outstanding M&A and tax lawyer is Henning Raa who is extremely pleasant to work with.’
‘The Aabø-Evensen team demonstrates exceptional strength in cross-border M&A and can handle high-value and complex transactions.’
‘Ole Kristian Aabø-Evensen is simply the best corporate and M&A lawyer in Norway. He demonstrates an incredible depth of experience, a commercial approach, as well as amazing client care.’
‘The team can cover any issue arising on cross-border M&A deals from securities legislation, financing, loan documentation, corporate and competition law, IPR, cross-border M&A tax structuring issues and so on.’
Key clients
- Imdex Limited
- Vauban Infrastructure
- Stirling Square Capital Partners
- SAR Gruppen AS
- NEC Corp.
- KMD A/S
- Fred Olsen Limited
- Francisco Partners
- Nordic Electrofuel
- E Plug
Work highlights
- Advised YX Betjent and Gir Norge on its merger/combination with UnoX and Best Stasjon.
- Advised the sellers of Tydal Data Center and Troll Housing on their respective sale to US Nasdaq listed Bitdeer Technology Group.
- Advised Nordic Electrofuel on its discussions with various international investors to support the construction of a production plant for e-fuels.
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Practice head
Ole Kristian Aabø-Evensen
Other key lawyers
Henning Raa; Andre Høgdahl