Since inception, Norvestor has successfully advised seven investment vehicles, targeting platform investments in Norway and Sweden. While a range of industries will be considered, Norvestor will particularly focus on those in which the team has previous experience, specialist skills and/or developed network. These core sectors are Oil services, Consumer markets, business services and Engineering, and industrial products.

Experience

With over 25 years of investment experience in the region, Norvestor has built a strong operationally-focused team, developed a deep network within the industry, and established itself as a leading franchise in the Nordic Lower mid-market. The funds advised by Norvestor have invested over €950 million across 64 control investments, in addition to 254 add-on acquisitions/divestments, and completed 42 exits.

How much do they invest?

Add-on investments play an integral role in Norvestor’s investment strategy of enabling companies to fulfill their growth potential and achieve leading Nordic or international positions in their respective markets.

How do they work?

Norvestor will typically seek control positions in companies that can benefit from the Firm’s support. They target companies where they foresee significant potential for top-line growth, strategic repositioning and/or operational improvements.

This makes a difference to them

Their investment strategy is focused on finding investment targets with attractive growth potential. Identifying market sentiments with underlying growth drivers, opportunities for growth through market consolidation and investing in competitive platform companies with strong potential for taking market shares.

Key People

Lars Grinde - Managing Partner
Lars Joined Norvestor in 1991 and became Managing Partner in 2010. He has been responsible for a large number of investments during this period. He is currently on the board of PG Marine Group.
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Trond Bjørnøy - Partner
Trond joined Norvestor in 1989 as CFO and since 1991 he has led investments within most of Norvestor’s core industries. He is currently the chairman of Sentech, Marine Aluminium, iSURVEY and Future Production and is on the board of Johnson Metall and Presserv.