Mr Alexander Plows > Arntzen de Besche > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile
Arntzen de Besche Offices
PO BOX 2734
SOLLI
0204 OSLO
Norway
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Mr Alexander Plows
Work Department
Insurance, Dispute resolution
Position
Partner. Alex is a partner in the firm’s insurance team and assists insurers and reinsurers on a range of issues from claims and coverage disputes to regulatory issues and the development of policy wordings.
His expertise includes assisting insurers on a variety of insurance products including financial lines, professional liability (including FIPI), directors’ and officers’ liability, comprehensive crime, warranty and indemnity and cyber insurances. He has assisted insurers and reinsurers in resolving some of Norway’s largest insurance and reinsurance claims in recent years.
Alex has extensive experience of dispute resolution and frequently represents insurers and reinsurers in complex and often multi-jurisdictional arbitrations and litigations. He has also acted for banks and financial institutions, energy and oil and gas companies in arbitrations under a variety of institutional rules as well as domestic, ad hoc arbitrations and in court proceedings. He is frequently asked to act as an arbitrator.
Alex is ranked as a Leading Individual in insurance by the Legal 500 and for dispute resolution by Chambers Global as a foreign law expert. He is a member of the Norwegian Bar Association’s Insurance Law Committee.
Career
2022 – Arntzen de Besche – Partner
2015 – 2022, DLA Piper Norway – Partner
2012 – 2015, DLA Piper Norway – Associate Partner
2006 – 2012, Advokatfirmaet Thommessen – Senior Associate
2005 – 2006, LeBoeuf Lamb Green & MacRae – Senior Associate
1998 – 2005, Dentron Wilde Sapte – Solicitor
Memberships
Norwegian Bar Association.
Education
1997, College of Law, England – Legal Practice Course (LLM)
1996, College of Law, Guilford – Common Professional Examination
Lawyer Rankings
Norway > Insurance
(Leading individuals)Arntzen de Besche is praised as ‘a heavy weight‘ in Norwegian insurance law and provides an ‘excellent service‘ across all relevant disciplines; the team regularly acts for both domestic and international insurers and reinsurers, brokers, agents and corporates. Practice head Alexander Plows joined from DLA Piper in January 2023, and regularly acts for insurers and financial institutions, providing an ‘outstanding professional service‘. Sven Iver Steen is a life insurance expert, Karl Rosén specialises in financial service regulations and financial lines insurance, and Eivind Landmark Tandrevold is highly knowledgeable in insurance disputes. The group also includes experienced litigator Jan Olav Aabø, professional liability expert Terje Granvang, and ‘extremely experienced’ adviser Rune Njøs Jacobsen. Other notable practitioners are Tobias Behncke and Bendik Misund Nedberg.
Norway > Dispute resolution
The ‘young, hungry and razor-sharp’ team at Arntzen de Besche excels in its work for insurance sector clients, handling coverage disputes, professional negligence litigation, and D&O liability claims. Eivind Landmark Tandrevold leads the team, which also includes ‘excellent litigation strategist‘ Jan Olav Aabø and the ‘pragmatic and strategic’ Andreas Nordby. Vidar Riksfjord takes point on disputes in the banking and finance and capital markets sectors, among others, while Alexander Plows joined the firm from DLA Piper in January 2023, further strengthening its contentious insurance offering. The group is also supported by a strong team of associates, including Tobias Behncke, Sarah Haugvad Andresen and Martin Hoff.