Mr Sven Iver Steen > Arntzen de Besche > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile
Arntzen de Besche Offices
PO BOX 2734
SOLLI
0204 OSLO
Norway
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Mr Sven Iver Steen
Position
Partner. Steen’s main area of focus is the financial, pension and insurance sectors. He has extensive experience as a legal advisor to Norwegian businesses, organisations and the public administration. He has rights of audience before the Supreme Court of Norway. and represents clients in all Norwegian courts. He has experience as a judge in arbitration cases relating to Norwegian and international insurance law.
Steen was for many years retained by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance to assist in the work of the Banking Law Commission. He participated in the preparation of a number of official reports relating to the Financial Contracts Act, the Insurance Contracts Act, the Payment Services Act, legislation covering occupational pensions, the Financial Institutions Act and the Insurance Activity Act. He assisted with the establishment of the national pension rights register Norsk Pensjon AS.
Steen has served as managing partner at Arntzen de Besche and CEO of the body that administers the contractual early retirement pension scheme (AFP) in the Norwegian private sector (Fellesordningen for Avtalefestet Pensjon), which has given him considerable senior executive experience. He has assisted employer and employee organisations to draw up the rules governing the AFP early retirement schemes and associated supplements for AFP pensioners without other income (Sliterordningene). He is an advisor to the public service pensions transfer agreement’s guarantee scheme (Overføringsavtalens sikringsordning).
Steen is a highly sought after advisor for complex cases and has undertaken many socially important assignments. He assists with restructuring processes and investigations/inquiries.
Career
2001 – Arntzen de Besche – Partner
2015 – 2018, Arntzen de Besche – Managing Partner / Chairman of the board
2009 – 2012, Contractual Pension Scheme/Severance Pay Scheme – CEO
2002 – 2005, Arntzen de Besche – Managing partner / Chairman of the board
1989 – 2000, Arntzen, Underland & Co. – Partner / Managing partner
1984 – 1989, Arntzen, Underland & Co. – Lawyer
1988, Tønsberg district court – Deputy judge
1987, Linklaters, London – Trainee
1981 – 1982, University of Oslo – Research Assistant at the Institute of Private Law
Memberships
Norwegian Bar Association.
Education
1987, Kings College London – Studies
1978 – 1984, University of Oslo – Cand.jur.
Lawyer Rankings
Norway > Insurance
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.