Ida Marie is a partner in BAHR’s finance team and head of the firm’s Debt Capital Markets group.
Ida has a broad international practice covering general bank finance and other debt finance transactions, acquisition finance and asset finance across a variety of sectors and industries. She has extensive experience acting for banks and borrowers in high-profile financings, in particular within the maritime sector as well as sustainability-linked and green finance, and is now focusing on BAHR’s bank and investment bank clients.
Ida started her career at BAHR, before relocating to London for a secondment at Slaughter and May. She then worked nearly 8.5 years at the finance team of Watson Farley & Williams in London – one of the leading maritime legal practices in the world – before returning to BAHR as a partner in early 2021. She is dual qualified as a Norwegian Advokat and as a Solicitor in England & Wales.
BAHR is a top-tier Norwegian law firm dedicated to a pure commercial law practice. With 41 partners serving clients based across the world, the firm is consistently ranked top in the major national and international legal directories and league tables, including within the core areas of debt finance, equity capital markets, real estate, competition law, M&A and restructuring. BAHR has a unique reputation for developing innovative solutions to transactional and regulatory challenges, and for being a strategic discussion partner to its clients. Based solely in Norway, BAHR has strong relationships with a network of other top-tier law firms across the world in order to offer clients high-quality legal assistance wherever and whenever they need it.