# Longship

Longship is a Private Equity based in Minnetonka, Norway.

## Overview

- **Organization type:** Private Equity
- **Headquarters:** Minnetonka, Norway
- **Region:** Europe
- **Address:** Oslo, Norway
- **Founded:** 2015
- **Assets under management:** Undisclosed
- **Website:** www.longship.no
- **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/longship

## Regulatory record

- **CRD number:** 114094
- **SEC file number:** 801-55954
- **Registration status:** Registered
- **Reports private funds:** No
- **IAPD record:** https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/114094

## About

Longship is a Norway based lower mid-market buyout specialist and Norwegian private equity firm. It is a Norwegian-based active ownership fund with a long-standing, dedicated focus on Norwegian small and medium-sized growth companies. The firm specialises in identifying great companies with potential to grow and become highly valuable to society.

## Sectors

- Norwegian small and medium-sized growth companies

## People

- Kai Jordahl — Partner, Chairman
- Espen Stenumgård — Partner
- Hans Tindlund — Partner
- Bernt Østhus — Partner
- Johan Anstensrud — Partner
- Erik Johannessen — CEO
- Alexander Andersen — Operations Director
- Torstein Aga — Finance Manager
- Henrik Gundersen — Investment Director
- Mats Hansen — Investment Director
- Karoline Holm-Helland — Investment Manager
- Oddne Råheim — Investment Manager
- Birk Haugan — Associate
- Aleksander Øverli — Associate

## Questions

### What investment structures does Longship use?

Longship pursues control buyouts, management buy-ins, growth equity rounds, public-to-private transactions and succession-driven liquidity events. The firm can lead or co-lead transactions and structures both majority and significant-minority positions depending on the seller's objectives. Management buy-ins are a recurring tool, pairing external executive talent with established Norwegian businesses that lack internal succession options.

### How does Longship's holding period differ from typical Nordic private equity firms?

Most Nordic buyout funds operate on a five-to-seven-year holding cycle dictated by institutional fund terms. Longship structures capital on a longer-duration basis, allowing portfolio companies to be held for a decade or more without a forced exit. This permanent-capital orientation removes the pressure to sell into unfavorable market windows and lets management teams execute multi-year transformation plans.

### Does Longship invest outside Norway?

Longship's primary investment geography is Norway. The firm reviews opportunities selectively in the broader Nordic region — Sweden, Denmark, and Finland — where Norwegian portfolio companies pursue add-on acquisitions or where a sector thesis extends across borders. The core origination engine remains anchored in the Norwegian market.

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