Wiersholm

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Eli Aasheim

Partner Eli Aasheim works mainly with employment law. Her practice covers all aspects of employment law, including pension. She has considerable experience with negotiating and solving individual disputes in employment. She also has extensive experience with restructuring and downscaling processes, business transfers and cross-border employment issues. She is frequently used as a lecturer on various topics in employment law.

Erik Staurset Andresen

Erik provides comprehensive advisory services to the fisheries and aquaculture industry along the entire coast. His expertise encompasses regulatory and strategic guidance, administrative law, contract negotiations, dispute resolution, contact with authorities, and decision-making support within these sectors. Additionally, Erik serves as the co-head of Wiersholm’s Seafood Sector Group.

Jon Martin Atkinson

Jon Martin's main practice area is transactions, with a particular focus on aquaculture, renewable energy and technology.

Bettina Banoun

Partner Bettina Banoun has extensive experience in work related to tax law, litigation, company law and EEA law. She is the chairman of the Tax Law Committee of the Norwegian Bar Association. Bettina Banoun is admitted to the Supreme Court and litigates regularly before Norwegian courts of justice. She also has experience in litigation before the EFTA Court and with complaints before the EFTA Surveillance Authority. Bettina Banoun has a PhD from the University of Oslo and wrote her thesis on "Tax avoidance", and she has legal training from Oxford University, University of Oslo and Harvard Law School. She is the author of several articles regarding tax law.

Dina Brask

Managing Associate

Andreas Bullen

Partner Andreas Bullen's practice includes transfer pricing, international tax law, Norwegian company tax law and EEA tax law. He assists many companies in matters of transfer pricing, including the choice of corporate structure, preparation of intra-group agreements and transfer pricing documentation, appeals cases and court cases. Bullen has written a doctoral thesis (PhD) at the University of Oslo titled "Arm's length transaction structures: Recognising and restructuring controlled transactions in transfer pricing". Bullen's doctoral thesis was awarded the Mitchell B. Carroll Prize by the International Fiscal Association and the European Academic Tax Thesis Award by the European Commission and the European Association of Tax Law Professors. Bullen is also the author of the book “EU, EEA and Tax: The four freedoms and direct taxation” and several articles on national and international tax law, including EEA tax law.

Håkon Cosma Størdal

Partner Håkon Cosma Størdal advises on EU/EEA law and is a specialist in competition law. He also handles questions related to public and administrative law. From his period as legal director with the Norwegian Competition Authority, Størdal has gained significant experience in handling complex competition cases. He has also been a national expert with the EFTA surveillance authority in Brussels, working with state aid and competition cases.

Audun Dahle-Nedrelid

Gunhild Dugstad

Partner Gunhild Dugstad's practice includes mergers and acquisitions, company law and the capital markets. Dugstad has extensive experience as a project manager in major and complicated transactions, particularly in private equity and the manufacturing industries.

Anne Lise E. Gryte

Anne Lise Ellingsen Gryte practices corporate and securities law with an emphasis on capital market transactions. Her practice focuses primarily on initial public offerings, equity raising and offerings and public takeovers. Anne Lise advises a wide range of issuers, investment banks, boards of directors and shareholders across all sectors and sizes in matters relating to company law and securities law.

Inge Ekker Bartnes

Partner Inge Ekker Bartnes works mainly with mergers and acquisitions, energy law, tax law and company law. Bartnes' advisory services focus on the energy sector (hydroelectric power, wind power and small-scale power) and renewable energy in particular. Bartnes also assists in purchase and sale of energy companies, in negotiation and preparation of contracts, and in regulatory matters and restructuring processes. Bartnes has in-depth knowledge of and experience with the energy sector and has played an important role in most of the major energy transactions in Norway in recent years.

Oda Hellenes Ekre

Oda works primarily with public procurement law, contract law and dispute resolution as well as compliance and investigations, in particular with public procurement law.

Georg Abusdal Engebretsen

Partner Georg Abusdal Engebretsen specialises in assisting Norwegian and international enterprises and public institutions in compliance and investigations. He has extensive experience and expert knowledge in a wide range of compliance law matters in a number of business sectors , including technology, industry and shipping. Mr. Engebretsen is also an experienced litigator and has, among other things, litigated cases concerning infringement penalties under the Norwegian Competition Act. He is often used as a lecturer both in Norway and abroad. He has for many years been a member of the compliance committee of the Center for Continuing Legal Education.

Atle Gabrielsen

Partner Atle Gabrielsen works primarily with banking and finance issues. He regularly assists Norwegian and international banks and financial institutions with various forms of financing, including project financing, refinancing and acquisition financing, as well as restructurings, involving a wide range of industry sectors such as shipping/offshore, E&P and energy.

Morten Goller

Partner Morten Goller works with dispute resolution, including litigation and negotiations, in public procurement, competition law, contract law and constructions, and tax law. He also advises Norwegian and foreign clients on state aid and competition law and has particular expertise on public procurement. Goller has previously worked for the Attorney General (Civil Affairs) and is a member of the Norwegian Complaints Board for Public Procurement. He is admitted to the Supreme Court and litigates regularly before Norwegian courts. Goller also has experience from international arbitration and the EFTA Court.

Torkjel Kleppo Grødalen

Partner Torkjel Kleppo Grøndalen works mainly with contract law and regulatory aspects within the oil- and gas industry and the energy industry. His area of expertise covers the petroleum regulations, CO2-storage regulations and offshore wind regulations.

Svein-Helge Hanken

Svein-Helge works primarily with transactions, including purchase and sale of businesses for buy-out funds and industrial players. His main areas of expertise are company law and contract law, as well as aquaculture law. He also has experience as an in-house group legal counsel from within the seafood industry and has advised on a wide range of both corporate and operational issues, both in connection with transactions, operational projects and ongoing cases.

Kristine Hasle

Kristine Hasle is a banking and finance lawyer with particular focus on the shipping/offshore and energy sectors. She regularly assists borrowers, lenders, investors and arrangers, domestically and internationally. Ms. Hasle has extensive experience with international and cross border financings and transactions, including sale and leaseback transactions. Her practice further includes advice and documentation in restructuring matters. Ms. Hasle also has experience with acquisition financing and general transactions/M&A work.

Elisabeth Lian Haugsdal

Elisabeth works with competition law, EU/EEA law, state aid law, administrative law and dispute resolution.

Harald Hellebust

Partner Harald Hellebust works mainly with transactions, including purchase and sale of businesses for buy-out funds and industrial players. His main areas of expertise are company law and contract law. Hellebust was admitted to the Supreme Court in 2008.

Magnus Hellesylt

Partner Magnus Hellesylt has special expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, often involving highly complex matters. He is admitted to the Supreme Court.

Stephan L Jervell

Partner Stephan L. Jervell works with litigation, dispute resolution and negotiations, and public law framework conditions for trade and industry, including EU/EEA law. His expertise also includes administrative law, competition law, state aid and procurement law, and contract law. Jervell is admitted to the Supreme Court and litigates regularly before Norwegian courts. He has litigated before the EFTA Court and carried out several hearings before the EU Commission. He also has experience as an arbitrator in national and international arbitrations. In recent years, Jervell has been highly engaged in international arbitration in shipping, oil and gas, M&A disputes and general contract law. He has litigated many cases in the ICC and the SCC systems and also been engaged in ad hoc arbitration.

Hans Erik Johnsen

Partner Hans Erik Johnsen's practice includes intellectual property law, broadcasting/media law, technology and telecommunication law and trademark/marketing law. He also provides general assistance to companies in the media/technology/telecom sectors. Johnsen has long experience with contract negotiations and with providing strategic and legal advice to companies in these markets. He has also been a board member in companies relevant to his fields of expertise.

Jarle Kvam

Partner Jarle Kvam works mainly with company law and stock exchange law, with emphasis on advising and preparing contracts in business transfers, mergers and private equity/venture capital investments and instruments. He also has long experience with international negotiations. In addition, Jarle Kvam has approximately 25 years of experience with M&A and cross-border transactions, and he frequently assists international, Nordic and local buy-out funds.

Tom Rune Lian

Partner Tom Rune Lian works mainly with real estate, with emphasis on transactions and financing, operation and development of commercial real estate. For many years, Lian has assisted major financial and operational players in the commercial real estate market with acquisition, sale, structuring, management and strategic advice. Lian is also the author of several articles on his areas of expertise.

Kristian Martin Lind

Kristian M. Lind advises clients operating or having interests in the technology, trade and oil & gas sectors. He advises clients on M&A, restructuring and general company law. He has extensive experience with negotiating and setting up cross-border joint ventures and other business combinations between shareholders.

Ronny Lund

Partner Ronny Lund works with contract law in general and construction law in particular, both onshore and offshore. His assistance includes all stages of a contractual relationship, from the pre-contractual phase of preparations, contract drafting and negotiations, to contract administration and dispute resolution in or out of court. Lund's background from the Office of the City Advocate in Oslo has given him good knowledge of and experience with related areas of law, including general and special administrative law and the rules regarding the pre-contractual phase of public procurement. Lund also has extensive experience with litigation before Norwegian and international courts of arbitration. He is also widely used as a mediator and arbitrator.

Ståle O. Meleng

Ståle O. Meleng works primarily with commercial properties, with emphasis on transactions, lease and management as well as structuring of property projects.

Andreas Mellbye

Senior Counsel Andreas Mellbye works mainly with transactions in M&A, Private Equity and the capital markets, and with stock exchange listings. He is admitted to the Supreme Court.

Petter Thomren Moltu

Petter advises on banking and financing. He assists both lenders and borrowers with various forms of financing, including project financing, acquisition financing, E&P and energy. He has also assisted on several securitisation transactions.

Thomas G Naalsund

Partner Thomas G Naalsund specialises in dispute resolution and litigation, national and international oil and gas arbitration, EU/EEA Law, competition law and state aid, and public procurement law.

Rune Opdahl

Partner Rune Opdahl works mainly with enterprises in the media, technology, e-commerce and pharmaceutical industries. He particularly advises clients on intellectual property law (such as copyright law, trademark law and patent law) data protection/privacy law, marketing law and contract law.

Kristian Elvestad Ottesen

Kristian Elvestad Ottesen acts for numerous Norwegian and international corporate clients, private equity firms and investment banks, primarily on matters concerning M&A and corporate law.

Hans Augun Parmann

Partner Hans Augun Parmann specialises in litigation, dispute resolution and contract law, in particular construction law dispute resolution (on and offshore). Mr. Parmann is a skilful project manager and has extensive experience in handling large and complex cases for Norwegian and international clients. He has experience of all levels of court, arbitration (Norwegian and international), negotiations and mediations. Mr. Parmann also provides assistance in company law, administrative law and planning law.

Olav Fr Perland

Partner Olav Fr. Perland works mainly with dispute resolution and providing advisory services in company, securities and contract law. He has particular experience with liability cases, including directors’ liability, professional liability and liability for misrepresentation. Perland is the head of and a lecturer in the subjects "Company Law 2 – Transactions, Stock Exchange and Securities Law" in the master study of business and economics and "Securities Law" in the bachelor study of finance, both at BI Norwegian Business School. He is also the author of several articles on his areas of practice. Olav Fr. Perland has a Ph.D from the University of Bergen with the thesis ”Manager/underwriter liability – Investment firms’ liability in connection with placement of shares”.

Jon Rabben

Jon Rabben assists Norwegian and international clients within the energy sector, and his main areas of expertise are acquisitions, financing, negotiations, dispute resolution and regulatory requirements within this business segment. Jon's practice includes assistance to petroleum producers on the Norwegian continental shelf, producers of hydro electric power and businesses engaged in new renewable power. He is admitted to the Supreme Court.

Karl Even Rygh

Partner Karl Even Rygh works with shipping and offshore transactions, in particular newbuilding and conversion projects, sale & purchase of vessels and sale & lease back transactions. Mr. Rygh's advisory services focus on all participants in the shipping and offshore industry. Mr. Rygh also assists in all kinds of contracts within shipping, including charterparties, CoAs, management agreements, joint ventures and pool agreements.

Ingjerd Røynås

Partner Ingjerd Røynås works mainly with mergers and acquisitions and in questions related to corporate law and contract law. Røynås has experience in assisting industrial and financial players, as well as private equity funds. A large part of her work is cross-border, focusing on international business transactions. Ingjerd Røynås is an experienced team leader and has broad experience in coordinating transactions. Her practice involves transactions in a variety of industries, including industry, technology, retail and oil services.

Sverre Sandvik

Partner Sverre Sandvik has extensive experience in advising on stock exchange listings, other capital market transactions, mergers and acquisitions, bond loans and general company and securities law. Sverre Sandvik's list of clients includes financial institutions, investment banks, listed companies, private equity companies and governmental bodies.

Anne Marie Sejersted

Anne Marie works primarily with intellectual property rights (IPR) and dispute resolution in this area. She has specialist qualifications in patents, trademark law, design, copyright, protection of trade secrets and know-how as well as marketing law.

Magnus Nordøy Snellingen

Magnus primarily works with dispute resolution in company, torts and contract law. His recent experience particularly includes litigation within the bank, finance and insurance sector on cases concerning complex contract, directors and professional liability.

Christel Søreide

Christel heads Wiersholms employment law team and has extensive experience within employment law and dispute resolution.

Kai Thøgersen

Partner Kai Thøgersen has extensive national and international experience with providing corporate and strategic advice, contract drafting and negotiations in mergers, acquisitions, capital market transactions and other major restructuring processes. Thøgersen is also an experienced team and negotiation leader, and for more than eight years he was the Managing Partner of one of Norway's leading law firms. Thøgersen particularly advises technology and telecom companies and is the head of Wiersholm's dedicated technology, media and communication team.

Ingrid Tronshaug

Managing Associate

Kjersti T Trøbråten

Partner Kjersti T. Trøbråten is a specialist on securities law and framework conditions for insurance and banking. For several years, she worked for the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority, at which she was responsible for the development and interpretation of rules of conduct and framework conditions for investment firms and management companies.

Nicolay Vold

Partner Nicolay Vold works mainly with tax law and company law and assists clients with legal and strategic advice and contract drafting in business transfers, mergers and demergers, and with general tax advice. Vold has extensive experience from different industries such as the insurance and real estate industry, but in recent years he has particularly worked with clients in offshore and oil services. Vold is also the author of several articles on his areas of expertise.

Theresa Schumacher Walberg

Theresa works with contract law, IT law, data privacy law and intellectual property law. She regularly advises clients within industries such as technology, pharmacy, finance and media in negotiations and dispute resolution.

Sigrid Ratvik Østvik

Sigrid provides legal support to seafood clients along the coast. She specializes in fisheries and aquaculture regulations, and is engaged in policy development, manages strategic processes, dispute resolution, and offers advice on contract and company law within the sector.