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        Frank C. Aase

        Partner | Oslo
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        Frank C. Aase

        Partner | Oslo

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        • | fraa@svw.no
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          Frank C. Aase is known for his expertise in restructuring and insolvency, banking/finance, and bankruptcy.

          Frank has extensive experience assisting companies facing financial challenges. He provides support to banking and company clients as well as advice to various creditors about how to safeguard their interests.

          Frank has considerable experience helping companies and creditors with restructuring/ reconstruction, capital injections, and other insolvency-related issues. He is also a specialist in board liability and has given several lectures on the subject to other lawyers through Advokatenes HR. He has broad knowledge about business and served as managing partner of Brækhus Advokatfirma.

          Previously Frank has worked as an in-house lawyer for one of the largest banks in the Nordic region, Nordea, where he primarily supported the bank’s bad debt department. He has wide experience in financial restructuring, securing credit arrangements , default management, and various loss-reducing measures. He regularly gives lectures at various banks on loss limitation and risk management for exposed/defaulted engagements.

          For the past nine years, Frank has been a member of the Norwegian Bar Association’s law committee for liens, bankruptcy, enforcement, voluntary arrangement and debt collection, serving the last three years as the committee’s chairman. Additionally, he is regularly appointed as a trustee in bankruptcy at the Oslo District Court handling a large number of bankruptcies every year.

          Frank has been identified as a leading expert in restructuring and insolvency in Chambers Europe and in Commercial, Corporate, and M & A in Legal 500. He is also ranked as one of Norway’s top lawyers in the categories of Restructuring and Bankruptcy Law and described as «up & coming» in Banking and Finance in Finansavisen’s annual lawyer survey.

          Chambers and partners

          Frank Aase is highly knowledgeable in his field and very pleasant to work with.

          Chambers and partners

          Frank Aase is an expert in the field and experienced.

          Legal 500

          Frank C. Aase knows banking and is on top of all processes regarding insolvency and corporate law. He is energetic and pleasant to work with.

          Legal 500

          Frank Aase focuses on commercial viability, practicality, and attention to detail. His ability to balance the legal intricacies of bankruptcy with real-world business implications makes him stand out.

          Work experience

          2024 - (today) Partner, Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig
          2016 - 2023 Partner, Brækhus Advokatfirma (Managing partner 2019-2022)
          2015 - 2016 Associate partner, Brækhus Advokatfirma
          2014 - 2015 Lawyer, attorney and professional liability department, Tryg Forsikring
          2010 - 2014 Lawyer, Group legal, Nordea Bank Norge
          2007 - 2010 Associate/Lawyer, Brækhus Advokatfirma

          Education

          2001 - 2007 Cand. Jur., Universitetet i Oslo

          Appointments

          2022 - (today) Appointed as leader of the Norwegian Bar Association’s law committee for liens, bankruptcy, enforcement, voluntary arrangement and debt collection
          2016 - 2021 Appointed as member of the Norwegian Bar Association’s law committee for liens, bankruptcy, enforcement, voluntary arrangement and debt collection

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