Mr Christian Bendiksen > Bull & Co Advokatfirma AS > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile
Bull & Co Advokatfirma AS Offices
Universitetsgata 9
NO-0164 Oslo
PO Box 6604 St. Olavs plass
NO-0129 Oslo
Norway
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Mr Christian Bendiksen
Work Department
Technology, IT and AI; Procurement; Competition law, state aid and EU/EEA
Position
Christian Bendiksen is one of Norway’s leading lawyers whitin the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has more than ten years of experience in licensing AI-based systems as well as extensive knowledge of issues concerning access to training data, data protection and database infringement issues, as well as assembling, licensing and access control to IoT-data streams.
Christian has a French master’s degree in law and is a qualified English solicitor (England & Wales) and has a broad range of experience within international contracts, cross-border licensing and export issues. He writes the commentary to the Norwegian Export Control Act for the Karnov Publishing House. Christian was previously the partner responsible for public procurement law at a previous law firm and has more than 20 years of experience with handling procurement issues for Norwegian and foreign clients, and has lectured extensively on the issue both in Norway and abroad.
He is ranked by the Norwegian financial newspaper Finansavisen as one of the leading lawyers within technology and digitalisation, lectures on those issues for the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and the legal course provider JUC as well as for other organisations and clients.
Career
| 2023 | Partner, Bull |
| 2013–2023 | Partner, Brækhus Advokatfirma |
| 2008–2013 | Senior Lawyer and Partner, Advokatfirmaet Schjødt |
| 2001–2008 | Associate/Lawyer, Brækhus Advokatfirma |
| 1999–2001 | Senior Executive Officer, The Norwegian Defence Estates Agency |
Education
| 2005 | Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test, College of Law, London |
| 1999 | Master of Laws, University of Oslo |
| 1998 | Master in EU-law and French private law, Université Francois Rabelais |
Lawyer Rankings
Norway > TMT
Praised by clients for being ‘laser-focused on finding workable solutions to problems’, the TMT team at Bull & Co Advokatfirma AS handles the full range of contentious and non-contentious mandates and is frequently sought out by film, TV and music clients for its media expertise. Department head Stian Sørensen Schilvold advises clients in the technology and media sectors on day-to-day operations and corporate transactions. Other key names on the media side are Tom G Eilertsen and Lisa Digernes, while Kristin Haram Førde and Kristian Foss are good contacts for data protection-related work. Christian Bendiksen advises on international technology contracts, and Christopher W Husebye assists on IT contracts. Hanna Beyer Olaussen joined the team in March 2024 from Wikborg Rein.