Up and Coming
Provided by Bjørn Løtveit
Banking and Finance
Bankruptcy
Restructuring
2026 - : Partner, Kvale
2024 - 2026: Managing Associate, Kvale
2023 - 2024: Senior Associate -Kvale
2021 - 2023: Vice dean for research - UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
2020 - 2021: Subject manager for the private law subjects in the legal education - UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
2020 - 2023: Associate professor - UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
2015–2021: External examiner and supervisor - University of Oslo, University of Bergen and Inland Norway University of Applied Science
2015 - 2019: Research fellow - UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
2014 - 2015: Selmer Law Firm - Associate
2025: Floating charges in the Nordic countries, Alisdair MacPherson og Caroline Sophie Rapatz (eds.), Floating Charges in Comparative Perspective, Edward Elgar Publishing
2025: Prioritetsreglers anvendelighet på tredjemannskonflikter knyttet til «knowhow»
i Lisa Mattea Elvevold & Joel Samuelsson (eds.), Over gränsen - Norsk-svenska dialoger om förmögenhetsrättslig praxis, Lustus förlag
2025: Lov om finansiell sikkerhetsstillelse – Lovkommentar, Juridika (Universitetsforlaget)
2021: Pantsettelse av immaterialrettigheter, Universitetsforlaget
2020: I hvilken grad bør domstolene og rettsvitenskapen utvikle ulovfestede regler på formue- og immaterialrettens område? Jussens venner, side 28–51
2018: Vilkårene for opplåning av pant, Lov og Rett, side 625–645
Bjørn has extensive experience in loan issuance, financial restructurings, in-court reconstruction processes, as well as enforcement of security and loss mitigation, and has broad expertise from both the borrower and lender side. He also regularly works on financial regulatory matters. Bjørn holds a PhD in secured transactions law, has authored numerous scholarly publications, and is frequently engaged as a speaker for clients, as well as at seminars and conferences.
Before joining Kvale, Bjørn worked as an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Tromsø (UiT), where he also served as Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Law. His combination of academic depth and practical experience makes him a valuable advisor and sparring partner for banks, financial institutions, and large corporations in complex legal issues and strategic decision-making.
Norwegian, English
Provided by Chambers
Bjørn Løtveit assists bankruptcy estates with insolvency proceedings. He has additional experience advising creditors on the restructuring and refinancing of distressed companies, as well as debt collection and the enforcement of security.
Provided by Chambers
Bjørn Løtveit is always positive and working really fast on delivering everything we need. He is pragmatic, solution oriented, super reliable, engaged in the law and always has clear answers.
He's very good at the security package and difficulties in connection to that.
Bjørn is incredibly responsive.
Bjørn Løtveit is good at following up on things.
Bjørn Løtveit is a highly talented finance lawyer.
Bjørn Løtveit is always positive and working really fast on delivering everything we need. He is pragmatic, solution oriented, super reliable, engaged in the law and always has clear answers.
He's very good at the security package and difficulties in connection to that.
Bjørn is incredibly responsive.
Bjørn Løtveit is good at following up on things.
Bjørn Løtveit is a highly talented finance lawyer.