Private Equity

The number of Private Equity firms and the capital under management have grown sharply in Norway since their establishment in the early 1990s. Active investment funds contribute capital, knowledge, and networks, playing a pivotal role in the development of both young and mature companies.

The PE industry is a significant driver of M&A in Norway. Investments are generally of limited duration, resulting in frequent transactions. A successful transaction requires competent legal advisers, and the increasingly specialised owner funds demand a higher degree of legal expertise, professional breadth, and extensive market experience.

Wiersholm provides a full range of legal services to all types of PE funds, including seed funds, venture funds, buyout funds, primary funds, and secondary funds. Our complete range of services enables us to assist our clients in the investment phase, throughout the investment, and at the time of exit. In addition, we have extensive experience in representing the other side in transactions involving Norwegian and international PE funds. By choosing Wiersholm as a comprehensive service provider, we also establish a system of efficiencies and processes within our client relationships. This allows our advisory services to become even faster, more precise, and better tailored to the client's commercial needs.

Our clients include Norwegian and international financial institutions, insurance companies, and fund management companies. We assist our clients in connection with the organisation, purchase, and sale of companies and businesses, fund structures, and other investment structures, tax issue reviews, establishment of incentive schemes for key personnel in investment structures and their portfolio companies, as well as regulatory framework conditions for asset management.