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        Peter Aall Simonsen

        Partner | Oslo
        Peter Aall Simonsen

        Peter Aall Simonsen

        Partner | Oslo

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          Peter Aall Simonsen specialises in renewable energy projects, banking and finance transactions and restructurings.

          Peter is head of SVW’s infrastructure and renewable energy practice. He is recognized as a top-tier infrastructure, project development and finance lawyer, with a track-record of wind, hydropower, biomass and interconnector projects, offtake agreements and complex cross-border project financings. He advises investors, project developers, lenders, export credit agencies and other relevant parties.

          Peter additionally has considerable experience with financing, with a particular focus on assisting lenders with asset based financing, restructuring and distressed debt. He is regularly appointed as adviser or board member for companies in distressed situations.

          Chambers and Partners

          He has tons of experience and knowledge.

          Chambers and Partners

          He is an outstanding lawyer.

          Chambers and Partners

          Peter Aall Simonsen is a very knowledgeable, experienced, commercial and well-informed lawyer.

          Legal 500

          Peter Simonsen has very good knowledge of renewable energy in Norway. Knows a thing or two about the industry and about us as a client.

          Work experience

          2007 - (today) Partner, Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig
          2001 - 2006 Associate/ Senior Associate/ Senior Lawyer, Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig
          1998 - 2001 Advisor, legal department, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate
          1996 Trainee, the law firm Kjær & Co, Kristiansand
          1995 Trainee, legal department, Stolt Parel Tankers Inc., shipowners, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
          1994 Trainee, O-J. Libæk & Partners, shipbrokers, Oslo
          1993 Trainee, H. Clarkson & Co, shipbrokers, London, United Kingdom

          Education

          1998 Cand. Jur., University of Oslo

          Appointments

          2023 - (today) Chairman of the board, Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig
          2022 - (today) Member of the election committee, Fornybar Norge
          2014 - 2022 Chairman of the board, the Norwegian Wind Energy Association (NORWEA)
          2014 - 2021 Member of the Norwegian Bar Association's advisory law committee on banking, financing and currency
          2013 - 2023 Board member, Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig
          2012 - (today) Board member, Stiftelsen Bogstad Gård
          Various other board appointments
          • Commentary to the Industrial Concession Act which regulates acquisition and ownership to hydropower production
            (2001), Gyldendal
          • Various articles on energy law matters

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