Much of CLP's capital markets experience and visibility is in relation to corporate and company work for listed companies and M&A driven transactions with a public angle.
The firm is smaller than some of its competitors but this in itself is often seen as an advantage by clients rather than a limitation, especially as they believe the firm matches the top league in terms of quality....
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Much of CLP's capital markets experience and visibility is in relation to corporate and company work for listed companies and M&A driven transactions with a public angle.
The firm is smaller than some of its competitors but this in itself is often seen as an advantage by clients rather than a limitation, especially as they believe the firm matches the top league in terms of quality. "I think they were excellent, very good attitude... sometimes in continental Europe you get a very academic approach but they were very commercial," says one client.
Another found the firm "hungrier and more commercial" than competitors. "Smaller firm, we get better service from smaller firms, more cost effective," adds the client.
Edvard Cock led on all the main capital markets transactions. Among them he assisted Ferncliff TIH on the €45 million listing of Standard Drilling on the Oslo Stock Exchange, one of the first off shore listings after the financial crisis. He was also advising Standard Drilling on acquisitions with capital market implications and acted for Nordic Health on a demerger and listing, the very first one coming out of the financial crisis.
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CLP is slightly different to its competitors as it is an M&A boutique, and not a full service law firm. "I think they are excellent," says a client, "very good attitude and quite unique....
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CLP is slightly different to its competitors as it is an M&A boutique, and not a full service law firm. "I think they are excellent," says a client, "very good attitude and quite unique. "Sometimes continental firms have too academic an approach; we were up against [a tier 2 firm] and CLP outshone them in terms of pro-activeness and being solution driven... the others could not compete," says a client.
Lars Gunar Aas is described as "very responsive, very bright lawyer, well known personality and a delight to work with" by one client, "the team was good and they were great on the acquisition", adding that the firm is "more hungry and more commercial" than competitors. In one deal, Aas led a team supporting a foreign firm to advise Thomson Reuters on a multi-billion multi-jurisdictional acquisition of Point Carbon
Aas also acted for Crayon on its €140 million reverse takeover and merger with Inmeta, the largest technology merger in 2010 and the first quarter of 2011. Alexander Lund helped Energy Ventures set up its $350 million Energy Ventures IV venture fund, the largest venture capital fund raised in Norway ever.
Fred Andersen and Merete Nygaard were engaged by Sparebank 1 in their public (public-to-private) completed voluntary offer to purchase all outstanding shares of insurance company Unison Forsikring.
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