# Nikolai Paus

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For his grandfather, the surgeon and humanitarian, see [Nikolai Nissen Paus](/source/Nikolai_Nissen_Paus).

**Nikolai Bent Paus** (born 21 October 1944) is a Norwegian businessman and real estate investor. He was [CEO](/source/Chief_executive_officer) of the [construction](/source/Construction) company Eeg-Henriksen (now the Norwegian part of [NCC AB](/source/NCC_AB)), Norway's third largest construction company, from 1984 to 1997.[1][2] Paus was also a major shareholder in the company until all the shares were bought by its then-largest shareholder NCC.[3] Most recently, Nikolai Paus was exposed as an intermediary of and beneficiary of the Playa Sol S.A. offshore entity incorporated in 1989 exposed in the [Panama Papers](/source/Panama_Papers)[4][5]

He graduated with a [Master of Science](/source/Master_of_Science) degree in engineering from the [Purdue University College of Engineering](/source/Purdue_University_College_of_Engineering) in 1968, and worked in the United States and Australia before joining Eeg-Henriksen in Norway in 1973. He became deputy CEO in 1983 and CEO in 1984. Eeg-Henriksen had major contracts in connection with the construction of [Oslo Airport, Gardermoen](/source/Oslo_Airport%2C_Gardermoen) in the 1990s. In 1986 Eeg-Henriksen also established a [helicopter](/source/Helicopter) company.[6]

Nikolai Paus has been a board member of the [Norwegian Export Council](/source/Norwegian_Export_Council) and of [Eckbos Legat](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eckbos_Legat&action=edit&redlink=1). I 1998 he co-founded the real estate company Optimo. The company was sold to [Entra](/source/Entra_Eiendom) in 2010.[7]

A member of the [Paus family](/source/Paus_family), he is a son of the noted surgeon [Bernhard Paus](/source/Bernhard_Paus) and of the humanitarian [Brita Collett](/source/Brita_Collett_Paus),[8] and is a grandson of the surgeon and humanitarian [Nikolai Nissen Paus](/source/Nikolai_Nissen_Paus). He is a cohabitant of Hermine Kristin Muhle [Midelfart](/source/Midelfart_family) (née Muhle), and is the step-father of the businesswoman [Celina Midelfart](/source/Celina_Midelfart).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** "NCC-kjøp gir ny boligbygger," *[Dagens Næringsliv](/source/Dagens_N%C3%A6ringsliv)*, 9 October 1995 p. 4

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** "Eeg-Henriksen på vei over Kjølen," *[Aftenposten](/source/Aftenposten)*, 19 September 1995 p. 34

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** "NCC vil kjøpe Eeg-Henriksen," *[Dagens Næringsliv](/source/Dagens_N%C3%A6ringsliv)*, 19 September 1995 p. 29

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["PLAYA SOL S.A. - offshore entity of Norway"](https://panama.data2www.com/e/10045816).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["NIKOLAI PAUS | ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database"](https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/11003691).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Per Helge Pedersen (1997). "Nikolai Paus: En fantastisk tid." In *[Fra Monolitten til Gardermoen: Eegen 75 år, 1922–1997](http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2011081708000)*. Oslo: BA forlag. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [8291414157](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/8291414157).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [Entra sluker hele Optimo](http://www.nenyheter.no/33483) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160813210853/http://www.nenyheter.no/33483) 2016-08-13 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), nenyheter

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** *Norges leger*, 1996, vol. 4, p. 381

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