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.
Experience
| 2007 | - | (today) | Partner, Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig AS |
| 2001 | - | 2006 | Associate/ Senior Associate/ Senior Lawyer, Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig AS |
| 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
| 2014 | - | (today) | Member of the Norwegian Bar Association's advisory law committee on banking, financing and currency |
| 2014 | - | (today) | Chairman of the board, the Norwegian Wind Energy Association (NORWEA) |
| 2013 | - | (today) | Board member, Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig |
| 2012 | - | (today) | Board member, Stiftelsen Bogstad Gård |
| Various other board appointments |