Financing
Access to appropriate financing is critical to a company’s growth, profitability and ability to deliver on its strategic objectives. A well-structured financing strategy and capital structure engender confidence among the market, creditors and shareholders, while weaknesses can quickly be exposed and create material challenges in both the short and long term.
Sophisticated legal advice is essential to ensure that borrowers maintain the necessary commercial flexibility while meeting creditors’ requirements for predictability and risk allocation.
Our team is widely regarded as one of the leading practices in the Norwegian market for financing. We advise both domestic and international clients across all sectors and at every stage of complex loan financings, including bank lending, bond issues, direct lending and credit fund financings, as well as hybrid structures. Our work is fully integrated with related practice areas such as corporate law, financial regulation, restructuring and insolvency, enabling us to deliver comprehensive and strategically grounded solutions.
We have an extensive international network and work closely with leading foreign law firms across a wide range of jurisdictions in cross-border financing transactions.
We advise both lenders and borrowers on:
- structuring and implementation of financing arrangements
- negotiation and drafting of term sheets and loan agreements
- structuring and establishing security packages
- negotiation and drafting of intercreditor agreements
The team has a commercial mindset and focus on the important issues.
Chambers Europe 2025
Selected references:
- legal counsel to Pareto Securities and ABG Sundal Collier as joint managers on Waldorf Energy Finance PLC’s USD 250 million senior secured bond issue
- lead legal counsel to a syndicate of Nordic and international lenders arranged by Danske Bank on a USD 350 million sustainability-linked backstop facility and bridge financing for Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Oslo Stock Exchange)
- legal counsel to a syndicate of international lenders led by Wilmington Trust on the EUR 1 billion financing of Sector Alarm Holding AS
- lead legal counsel to Arctic Securities, DNB, Carnegie and Pareto Securities as joint bookrunners on DNO ASA’s USD 400 million perpetual hybrid callable bond issue (Oslo Stock Exchange)
- lead legal counsel to a syndicate of Nordic and international lenders on a NOK 2.5 billion revolving credit facility, including a NOK 750 million swingline facility, for a major Norwegian energy company.
