Karsten is a corporate lawyer specialising in M&A transactions and company law. He regularly assists private equity funds and industrial players in M&A deals across a variety of sectors, often involving cross-border and international aspects. Karsten frequently leads projects, coordinating matters across numerous jurisdictions.
Karsten is an international transaction lawyer with several years of experience in both the Norwegian and German markets. Karsten studied law in Berlin (Germany) and London (UK), and is qualified to practise in both Norway and Germany.
Karsten has been acknowledged as a “promising talent” among international lawyers in the annual lawyer survey conducted by Kapital, a Norwegian financial daily.
Awards, Work experience, Memberships and Education
- Promising talents, Advokatundersøkelsen, Finansavisen, International lawyer, 2024
- Promising talents, Norwegian financial daily Kapital's annual lawyer survey, International lawyer, 2023
- Promising talents, Norwegian financial daily Finansavisen's annual lawyer survey, International lawyer, 2022
- Promising talents, Norwegian financial daily Kapital's annual lawyer survey, International lawyer, 2024
- Partner, Wiersholm, 2024
- Managing Associate, Wiersholm, 2020
- Senior Associate, Wiersholm, 2017
- Lawyer, Gleiss Lutz (Berlin, Hamburg), 2015
- German Second Legal State Examination and German practicing certificate, Berlin, 2015
- LL.M. in International Commercial and Business Law, King’s College London, 2012
- German First Legal State Examination, Berlin, 2010
- Law and Business Administration, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2010
Selected projects
Advised Cisco Systems, Inc. on the acquisition of Working Group Two AS.
Assisted OSM Maritime Group in its business combination with Thome Group to create a world leading ship manager with more than 30,000 employees and offices in 22 countries.
Assistance in connection with the offer by New Forests Africa Investment VCC for the acquisition of all the shares in Green Resources AS, a forest development and wood processing company with operations in East Africa.
Assisted with the sale of Petroleum Technology Company Holding AS (as parent of Petroleum Technology Company AS) by Herkules Capital and other minority shareholders to Interwell AS.
Assistance to Viking Redningstjeneste Topco AS and its shareholders in connection with the sale of all the shares in Viking to If P&C Insurance Holding Ltd.
Advised DNB and Nordea comprehensively on all legal matters from an M&A and finance perspective regarding the business combination between AGR Group and First Geo as well as the accompanying financial restructuring.
Assistance to Compass Group in connection with its acquisition of Fazer Food Services from Fazer Group for an enterprise value of approximately €475 million.
Assisted Procuritas and the other shareholders in the divestment of the Norwegian accounting software company Duett to US based private equity firm Accel-KKR.
Assisted Sector Alarm as lead counsel on all aspects related to the agreement for the business combination of Avarn Security Oy, a subsidiary of Sector Alarm Group AS, and Prevent 360 Turvallisuuspalvelut Oy, a company controlled by the Finnish private equity fund Intera Fund III Ky. Following completion of the transaction, a runner up to the market leader in the Finnish security market focusing on serving companies and public organizations is created.