Jens Christian Gjesti > Kvale Advokatfirma DA > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile

Kvale Advokatfirma DA
HAAKON VIIS GATE 10
PO BOX 1752, VIKA
0122 OSLO
Norway
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Position

Partner

Career

Jens Christian Gjesti is a specialist in telecommunications, competition law and privacy. He regularly also assists clients in matters in connection with dispute resolutions, IT agreements, administrative law, intellectual property right, marketing law and EU/EEA law.

He has experience from the Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority where he worked with regulatory issues both nationally and internationally. As a lawyer he has, since 2008, inter alia assisted clients in major cases relating to merger control, anti-competitive behavior, dispute resolution and regulatory compliance. Gjesti was seconded as an in-house counsel to Tele2 from 2012 – 2015 and has also contributed to the master program at the University of Oslo as an external lecturer.

Lawyer Rankings

Norway > TMT

Digitalisation projects for prominent telecoms, media, and technology companies feature prominently in the workload of Kvale Advokatfirma DA’s TMT practice. Per-Kaare Svendsen oversees the team and has a broad practice advising on outsourcing and software acquisitions, as well as telecoms disputes, while Jens Christian Gjesti specialises in cybersecurity, data protection, and GDPR issues; the latter is another core pillar of work for the team. Lars Trygve Jenssen handles corporate and M&A work for clients in the technology and media sectors, while Ingvild Hanssen-Bauer is recommended for contentious mandates.