Ms Mira Levánd Bergsland > Wikborg Rein > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile

Wikborg Rein
Dronning Mauds gate 11
P.O.Box 1513 Vika
NO-0117 Oslo
Norway
Mira Levánd Bergsland photo

Work Department

Restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency, Financing

Position

Mira’s main areas of practice relate to insolvency and bankruptcy law, mortgage law, company law and enforcement actions. She works with restructuring projects with a special focus on insolvency and provides advice within a wide range of issues related to the operations of companies in financial distress. She has broad experience from complex and comprehensive restructurings of Norwegian companies in the oil/shipping sector. Her practice also include administration of bankruptcy estates, where she has been part of the teams administrating the bankruptcy estates of Faktor Eiendom ASA, Aksjespareklubben TA-Invest, Sydvaranger Gruve AS and Veireno AS. She is from April 2022 appointed as administrator in bankruptcy cases before Oslo City Court. Mira is the author of the legal commentary to the Wage Guarantee Law, published by Universitetsforlaget (available as a book and online at www.juridika.no). She is also the author of the notes to the Wage Guarantee Law published by Karnov Group Norway at www.lovdata.no. Mira has previously worked as a deputy judge with Oslo Byfogdembete, a court in Oslo who specialises in bankruptcy-/insolvency-, legal enforcement and provisional security cases. She is also an external examiner at University of Bergen (since 2015). Mira is ranked as “up and coming” within Restructuring and bankruptcy law in Finansavisen (2022 (3rd place) and 2023 (1st place), and recommended in Legal 500 as a “key lawyer” within her field.

Career

2023 – Specialist Counsel, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2019 – 2023 Senior Lawyer, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2016 – 2018 Senior Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2015 – External examiner, University of Bergen
2015 Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2014 – 2015 Deputy Judge, Oslo County Court
2012 – 2014 Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2012 Scholarship holder, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2010 – 2011 2011 Trainee

Education

2015 Practising certificate
2012 Master of Laws, University of Bergen
2011 Special subjects, Faculty of Law, University of Glasgow

Lawyer Rankings

Norway > Insolvency and corporate recovery

The ‘dedicated and skilled insolvency team’ at Wikborg Rein has expertise in both restructuring and insolvency mandates, and is particularly sought after for restructurings in the energy, shipping and offshore sectors. Practice head Kaare Christian Tapper has ‘an eye for details‘ and is a highly experienced practitioner in the insolvency and restructuring fields. The group also includes Stian Tande Mortensen, who specialises in debt financings with a focus on high yield bonds, direct lending transactions and financial restructurings; and Leif Petter Madsen, who is a competent litigator specialising in bankruptcies. The ‘experienced and solution-orientedSofie Vikse is a key practitioner in bankruptcy cases and advises companies and creditors on financial restructurings and insolvency issues, while Mira Levand Bergsland, who assists with bankruptcy and restructuring matters, is also recommended.