Oivind Amundsen

EVP Primary Market at Oslo Stock Exchange

Øivind Amundsen is Executive Vice President at the Oslo Stock Exchange where he is responsible for the primary market and legal affairs. As head of the primary market Amundsen is in charge of new listings for equities and bonds on the exchange. The issuers’ continuous obligations, transactions in listed companies and take-overs in the listed are in Amundsen’s field of responsibility.   Prior to his current position at the Oslo Stock Exchange, Amundsen was partner in the Law firm Selmer, one of the largest transaction firms in Norway, where he worked with IPOs and securities transactions. Before that, Amundsen had position as Executive Vice President Corporate Affairs in KLP one of the largest life insurance companies in Scandinavia.   Amundsen is lieutenant commander from the Norwegian Royal Naval Academy, he has a law degree from the University in Bergen and he is an Authorized Financial Analyst from The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.