Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS

Financial Regulatory

Senior Associate

Ingrid Austjore Valseth is a senior associate in the Financial Regulatory and Asset Management department at Schjødt, where she advises on a broad range of financial regulatory matters affecting domestic and international clients. Her practice focuses on regulatory compliance under Norwegian and EU/EEA frameworks, including licensing processes, passporting, governance requirements, AML/CFT, conduct-of-business rules, and ongoing supervisory dialogue. She regularly assists with cross-border transactions, customer and distribution agreements, product structuring and development, establishment and wind-down of regulated entities, and comprehensive legal due diligence. Ingrid also provides strategic advice on jurisdictional assessments and regulatory perimeter analyses.

She has extensive experience working with fintech companies, investment firms, fund managers, insurance undertakings, payment institutions, crypto-asset service providers, and financial intermediaries. Her work spans the implementation of regulatory changes, internal control frameworks, risk assessments, outsourcing arrangements, and interactions with supervisory authorities.

Ingrid joined Schjødt in 2023 after completing her Master of Laws at the University of Bergen and her Bachelor of Laws at the University of Agder. Alongside her law firm practice, she has undertaken secondments in the insurance, fintech, and crypto-asset sectors, serving as Head of Compliance for several prominent market participants. In these roles, she has been responsible for regulatory reporting, policy development, compliance monitoring programmes, and ensuring alignment with evolving regulatory standards across multiple areas of the financial market.

Norwegian, English

2023 - Master of Laws, University of Bergen

2021 - Bachelor of Laws, University of Agder