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Wikborg Rein Offices

Wikborg Rein
Dronning Mauds gate 11
P.O.Box 1513 Vika
NO-0117 Oslo
Norway
Visit website 47 22 82 75 00 47 22 82 75 01

Mr Stuart Stock

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+47 22 82 75 65 sts@wr.no View profile

Work Department

Competition and Procurement

Position

Stuart is an experienced competition lawyer, used to handling large and complex competition law matters. Stuart advises on all aspects of EU, UK and Norwegian competition law, with a particular focus on multi-jurisdictional merger control and investigations where he has significant experience and expertise. Stuart is a qualified solicitor of England and Wales as well as a Norwegian qualified lawyer, and has previously worked in the competition law team at a major international law firm in London as well as for the UK competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority. He has also spent time working in Brussels during his 10 + years of experience in working exclusively with competition law. Stuart is recognised as one of Norway’s leading competition lawyers, and has been ranked as a “Rising Star” in the field by Legal 500 since 2021. He speaks at conferences and has written several articles on topical competition law issues, in particular on the application of competition law to the energy sector.

Career

2022 – Specialist Counsel, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2020 – 2021 Senior Lawyer, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2018 – 2019 Senior Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2016 – 2017 Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2015 – 2016 Associate, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, London
2014 – 2015 Manager, Competition & Markets Authority, London
2012 – 2014 Associate, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP, London
2010 – 2012 Trainee, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP, London & Brussels

Education

2021 Norwegian Practising Certificate
2012 – 2013 King’s College, London, UK – EU Competition Law (Post-Graduate Diploma)
2012 Admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales
2009 – 2010 University of Law, UK – Legal Practice Course (LPC)
2008 – 2009 Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands – European Business Law (LLM)
2005 – 2008 University of Nottingham, UK – Law (LLB)

Lawyer Rankings

Norway > EU and competition

(Rising stars)

Stuart Stock – Wikborg Rein

The ‘extremely knowledgeable and pragmatic’ team at Wikborg Rein acts for large private companies and public bodies in Norway, including major energy, telecoms, aquaculture, and transport players. Handling a high volume of infringement cases before Norwegian competition authorities, the team is also routinely instructed to act on antitrust investigations, follow-on claims and cartel mandates. Mads Magnussen heads up the team and is hailed by clients as a ‘fantastic adviser’. Preben Milde Thorbjørnsen is another core member of the team and handles both contentious and non-contentious competition mandates, including transactions and infringement litigation. Specialist counsel Stuart Stock, who is dual-qualified in Norway and England, takes point on cross-border and international matters, with an emphasis on merger control work. Hanne Camilla Zimmer departed the team in 2023.

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