Mr. Bjerke is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department. His practice focuses on complex structured products and derivatives including asset-backed debt instruments, fund linked instruments and credit based arrangements. His recent transactions include representing a large real-estate fund complex in a multi-billion dollar lending arrangement; representing large financial institutions in developing various fund-linked structures and derivative trading platforms and establishing synthetic CDO structures.

He joined Davis Polk in 1999 and became partner in 2007.

Mr. Bjerke graduated from Cornell University in 1989 and in 1994 he received his Cand. Jur. from the University of Oslo, where he graduated third in his class. In 1998 he received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he graduated first in his class and was principal senior editor of the Columbia Law Review and articles editor of the Columbia Journal of European Law. He was a research fellow at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law, Institute for Information Law, from 1994 to 1995. He clerked for the Honorable John M. Walker Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, from 1998 to 1999. He is admitted to the bar of New York.

Mr. Bjerke is fluent in German and Norwegian and is conversant in the other Scandinavian languages.