Christine Rødsæther
Europe Guide 2024
Band 1 : Shipping: Finance
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About
Provided by Christine Rødsæther
Practice Areas
Christine has more than 30 years' experience within shipping and offshore related transactions. She assists international shipyards, ship owners, equipment suppliers, project brokers, banks and other financial institutions with contracts for design, construction, sale-and lease back and financing of assets, in particular vessels and offshore installations. She has worked five years in London and Taipei. She is an experienced non-executive director of listed and non-listed international companies and currently serves at the board of chemical tanker and tank terminal owner and operator OSE listed Odfjell SE (from May 2010), LSE listed closed-ended investment fund Tufton Oceanic Assets Limited (from September 2020) and Oslo Euronext Growth listed Gram Car Carriers ASA (from November 2021). She is a member of the Marshall Islands' Ship Registry's Quality Council (from 2002) and the Norwegian government's advisory board for maritime development (MARUT) (from 2012). She has also served at the board of the Norwegian Export Credit Guarantee Agency (2006-2014).
Chambers Review
Europe
Christine Rødsæther is an outstanding lawyer who advises lenders on finance transactions and loan portfolios in the shipping and offshore sectors, often with cross-border aspects.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Christine Rødsæther is Norway's best shipping lawyer."
"She knows how to do business; she sees it from the owners perspective and also the bank's, as well as the legal side. She absolutely has a very commercial mindset, and that has to do with her long experience as well."
"Christine is very solution-oriented and pragmatic, and she doesn't complicate things. She is extremely experienced."
"She is not only an expert in her field, but she is also extremely service-minded and welcoming; no question is too small, and no time is inconvenient."
"Christine is brilliant in her field."
"Christine Rødsæther is Norway's best shipping lawyer."
"She knows how to do business; she sees it from the owners perspective and also the bank's, as well as the legal side. She absolutely has a very commercial mindset, and that has to do with her long experience as well."
"Christine is very solution-oriented and pragmatic, and she doesn't complicate things. She is extremely experienced."
"She is not only an expert in her field, but she is also extremely service-minded and welcoming; no question is too small, and no time is inconvenient."
"Christine is brilliant in her field."