Corporate and Transactions/M&A

Transactions are often complex and require comprehensive solutions that often span across different legal areas. We assist clients both medium sized to large, Norwegian and foreign, within all industries and with all different aspects of a transaction, from the planning, the assistance related to Due Diligence processes, the contract negotiation and the implementation of the transaction itself.

In addition to corporate and contract law, tax, VAT, competition law and labour law are examples of legal areas that normally play a vital role in all transactions and where we at Brækhus offer market leading expertise.

Through our firm’s membership in the premier global legal network Meritas Law Firms Worldwide, our attorneys regular assist in complex cross-border transactions. Through our associated membership in the international auditing network of Crowe Horwath, we are further able to also assist with financial “due diligences” regardless of whether the transaction occurs within or across Norway’s borders.

We assist with:

• Choice of organisational form and corporate structure
• Establishment of companies and branches
• Shareholder agreements and pre-emptive rights
• Reorganizations such as demergers, mergers and restructurings
• Inter-company transactions
• Equity capital transactions such as capital increase and capital reduction
• Responsible loans and convertible loans
• Corporate governance
• Directors’ liability and corporate investigations
• Restructuring, dissolution and liquidation of companies
• M&A: Assistance the purchase or sale of companies or businesses, including legal and financial due diligences