Edvard CockPartner, MBA
Edvard Cock’s main areas of practice are in capital markets, public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital transactions. Cock has extensive experience in advising Norwegian and international companies on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, sales processes, restructurings and other equity transactions as well as stock-exchange listings, equity issues and rules and regulations for capital markets, including voluntary and mandatory offers, disclosure requirements and insider trading rules.
In addition to his law degree, Cock has an MBA from Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he specialised in finance and private equity/venture capital. He is rated as one of the leading capital market lawyers in Norway.
“Edvard Cock impresses market commentators. When it comes to capital markets, he is really smart-thinking and proactive. He finds the right solution,” enthuses one client. Cock has a broad corporate practice which spans capital markets, M&A and restructuring.
Chambers Europe
Practice areas
Background
Partner, Advokatfirmaet CLP (2007-)
Partner, Wikborg Rein (2004-2007)
Senior Associate/Associate, Wikborg Rein (1997-2003)
Education
Masters in Business Administration, Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, USA (1997-1999)
Master of Law, University of Oslo (1997)
Other
Several board positions

CLP is advising General Atlantic in offer for Adevinta

CLP advised in Morrow Batteries’ private placement of up to EUR 70 million

Investment from Climate Fund Managers in Release Solar

CLP has assisted Liwlig Group Oy in its acquisition of a majority stake in Gyro Holding AS

CLP advises Nordic Nanovector in acquisition of Thor Medical

CLP has advised Volue ASA on its acquisition of Enerim Oy’s Wholesale Markets business line

CLP has advised on the sale of Teknograd AS

CLP has advised on the sale of CICERO Shades of Green AS

CLP advise DLTx on transformational transaction

Longship and Northern Lights: Carbon Capture, Transportation and Storage in Norway

CLP has assisted Credo Partners AS with establishing a new chain of fitness centres

CLP assisted Wittusen & Jensen in the sale of WJ Business Partner

CLP has assisted Arendals Fossekompani ASA in its acquisition of IPT Technology GmbH

CLP advised Morrow Batteries in its EUR 100 million Private Placement

CLP has advised on the sale of Arcasa Arkitekter AS

Utleiesenteret sold to IK Partners backed Renta Group Oy

CLP has assisted Arendals Fossekompani in its acquisition of a majority stake in the German energy storage specialist Commeo GmbH

Aktiv Veidrift and Aktiv Veidrift Utleie sold to Green Landscaping Group

CLP has assisted ECO STOR in forming a joint venture with Li-Cycle and Morrow Batteries

CLP has assisted Segulah-backed Francks Kylindustri on the acquisition of Therma Industri, Invent and HB Kuldetjeneste

CLP has assisted Agder Energi AS on its sale of Nordgröön Energie GmbH

Kid – JV for new central warehouse

CLP has assisted Jolt Capital and Lightrock with investments in the wood supplier Kebony

Byggmax acquires Right Price Tiles

CLP has assisted Credo and SYSCO’s other owners in the combination of Cegal and SYSCO

Jordanes acquires Umoe Restaurants

CLP has advised Alliance Venture in connection with its investment in Equality Check AS

CLP has advised the shareholders of 99x Technology Limited

CLP has advised Volue AS in connection with its acquisition of ProCom GmbH

CLP has advised Morrow Batteries

CLP advised APCOA Holdings GmbH on EUR 765 million refinancing

CLP has advised Arendals Fossekompani ASA with the sale of Cogen Energia

CLP has advised on the sale of Resight AS

Viking Venture establishes the first Norwegian SPAC

Mercell acquires Cloudia Oy

CLP advises Atlantic Sapphire on USD 121 million private placement

CLP congratulates Element Logic with a sale of a majority stake in the Element Logic group to Castik Capital

CLP one of the most active law firms for M&A transactions in Q1 2021 in Norway and the Nordics

CLP congratulates Ørn Software with private placement and listing on Euronext Growth

CLP assists NattoPharma ASA in connection with voluntary cash offer by Compagnie des Levures Lesaffre

CLP with top rankings in the yearly election of lawyers in Norway

Element to acquire the cryptocurrency company Distributed Ledger Technologies Ireland, LLC

Mercell acquires Visma Commerce

Hofseth BioCare raises NOK 200 million and intends to transfer to Oslo Børs

House of Control completes private placement and targets Merkur Market listing

CLP congratulates Arribatec on a contemplated reversed takeover of Hiddn Solutions ASA

CLP advises Atlantic Sapphire on USD 100 million private placement

CLP congratulates Nordic Semiconductor on USD 125 million private placement

Mercell Holding completes private placement and targets Merkur Market listing

CLP assisted Nysnø in its cornerstone investment in Alliance Venture Delta

Columbia Threadneedle European Sustainable Infrastructure Fund (ESIF) acquires majority stake in Lefdal Mine Datacenter AS

Atlantic Sapphire listed on Oslo Stock Exchange

CLP assisted Atlantic Sapphire AS with new debt financing

CLP with top rankings in the yearly election of lawyers in Norway

CLP assists Funcom on a voluntary offer from Tencent

CLP has assisted in three parallel transactions

CLP assisted Agder Energi in the establishment of the joint venture OSS Norge AS with Glitre Energi AS

CLP assisted Fortum Corporation and Nordic Wind B.V. in the expansion of the shareholder base of Fortum’s Nordic wind portfolio

CLP assists Data Respons ASA on a voluntary offer from Akka Technologies

Standout Capital invests in VisBook

CLP has assisted eSmart Systems

Transaction / Franchise – New European hotel operator

poLight ASA listed on Oslo Børs

CLP has acted as legal advisor for Sparebank1 Gruppen

CLP has acted as legal advisor for Stamina Group AS

CLP assists Nordic Semiconductor in NOK 815 million private placement

CLP assists Atlantic Sapphire in its NOK 600 million private placement and Merkur Market listing

CLP assists Team Tankers in USD 206 million transaction

Technology and renewable energy transactions

Funcom enters into joint venture and secures financing in a private placement

Listing of Self Storage Group ASA

Intex Resources secures convertible loan facility

Initial public offering of Webstep ASA

Closing of the restructuring of the Hafslund ASA group

CLP acts as legal advisor to Swix Sport

Techstep ASA – Approval of prospectus and listing of new shares

CLP has assisted Fortum in the Hafslund transactions

Intex Resources raises equity for investments in Canada

CLP congratulates Techstep ASA

Standard Drilling raises equity and makes investments

CLP has assisted Fusetools AS

eSmart Systems AS raises NOK 100 million from Kongsberg Digital AS in a private placement

Restructuring of Olympic Ship

CLP has assisted Agder Energi Venture AS

Hofseth BioCare and Hofseth International

Q-Free raises NOK 133.8 million in Private Placement

Norfund, Rabobank and FMO join forces

poLight raises NOK 160 million in Pre-IPO funding round

Ferd/Mestergruppen offer to purchase all shares in Nordek
