Cornelius Sogn Ness

Partner Cornelius Sogn Ness is the head of Haavind’s capital markets team. With more than 20 years of experience from handling both DCM and ECM mandates, he is highly recognised in the market for his broad knowledge of capital markets transactions. He has valuable prior experience from the Verdipapirmarkedslovutvalg secretariat and the Ministry of Finance’s financial markets department.

His work has had a particular focus on private placements of high-yield bond issues, listings on Oslo Børs, in addition to advising on ECM transactions and public takeovers. He has advised on almost all of the largest public takeovers completed in the Norwegian market the last ten years. In recent years, he has advised on several of the largest capital markets transactions in Norway, including several private placements of high-yield bond issues and subsequent listings of the bonds on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

In addition to his capital markets expertise, Partner Ness is experienced in M&A and corporate law issues.

Partner Ness is consistently ranked and recommended as a leading capital markets lawyer in Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, Legal 500 and in the Norwegian Financial Daily’s (Finansavisen) annual Norwegian lawyer and law firm rankings.

2015--present Partner, Haavind

2005-2015 Associate/Lawyer, Wiersholm

2004-2005 Adviser, Ministry of Finance, The Financial Markets Department

2004-2005 Member of the Verdipapirmarkedslovutvalg secretariat

The Norwegian Bar Association

University of Oslo

Cand.jur.

2004