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STRATEGIC AND FINANCIAL ADVISORY WITHIN THE OCEAN INDUSTRIES
ABOUT BAUTSHIP
Bautship, LLC is a boutique strategic and financial advisory that brings together people and ideas to enhance value within shipping, oil & gas, and offshore wind. With an international focus, deep experience in banking and finance, and trusted partners around the world, Bautship brings a truly global view of opportunities and challenges in the maritime and offshore sector.
Whether optimizing capital structures, identifying and mitigating risk, setting long term strategies, uncovering new capital sources, or matching legacy platforms with tech ventures, Bautship and its global partners aim to find solutions powered by expertise and extensive networks in the ocean industries.
Recent strategic advisory contracts have included work helping a U.S. lead venture building and financing a offshore wind project, developing a platform and investment strategy around ocean tech and renewables for a shipping company, executing on an expansion strategy for a European shipping client in Asia, and working with a maritime tech company to expand its digital platform. On the investor front, Bautship has helped individuals and organizations target and assess opportunities in the maritime space, and has worked with both investors and lenders to manage risk more effectively by monitoring the impact of new energy efficiency regulations on ships and vessel portfolios.
Innovative thinking and germinal collaborations bring about a turn towards opportunity on new horizons.
HENNING L. CHRISTIANSEN, FOUNDER
Henning Lyche Christiansen's career spans almost 20 years in the global financial industry specializing in the maritime transportation and offshore energy industries. Henning is the founder of Bautship LLC, a strategic and financial advisory firm focusing on the ocean-based industries. From 2006 to 2020 Henning held senior positions at DNB Bank ASA and Nordea Bank AB, two of the leading global financial institutions in the maritime transportation and offshore energy sectors, where he has been responsible for developing multibillion dollar lending portfolios covering some of the leading offshore energy and maritime transportation companies in both the European and North American markets. After nearly two decades of transacting with leading maritime transportation and offshore energy companies he has accumulated an extensive network including executive management teams, bankers, investors, lawyers and industry professionals. Henning held key roles developing capital markets business and served as FINRA-registered Investment Banking Representative for Nordea’s broker dealer in the US. Henning holds a MSc in Shipping, Trade and Finance from Cass Business School.
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Bautship is based on the Norwegian nautical term “baut skip”-- to tack, or turn against the wind.