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Wikborg Rein Offices

Wikborg Rein
Dronning Mauds gate 11
P.O.Box 1513 Vika
NO-0117 Oslo
Norway
Visit website 47 22 82 75 00 47 22 82 75 01

Mr Ole Andenæs

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+47 22 82 76 61 oea@wr.no View profile

Work Department

Financial Regulation

Position

Ole heads the firm’s Financial Regulations practice, and has comprehensive experience advising all types of regulated entities. This includes investment firms, managers of UCITS and AIFs, banks, insurance/pension, payment services/fintech, virtual currencies and investor conduct. He has led a number of processes towards the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority, including advising in obtaining licenses etc, but also in connection with contentious cases related to administrative sanctions within the areas of AML, MAR, shareholding disclosure and short selling. He previously worked as Head of Legal in investment bank Carnegie AS, and he has in-depth and practical knowledge about the regulatory framework surrounding investment firms, asset managers, investor behaviour and adjacent regulations. Prior to this, Ole worked as a lawyer in law firm Thommessen, where he mainly worked with financial regulations, advising a wide range of regulated entities, as well as company law and disputes within these areas.

Career

2019 – Partner, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2016 – 2019 Head of Legal, Carnegie AS
2008 – 2016 Senior Lawyer/Lawyer/Associate, Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS
2010 – 2014 Part time lecturer, Treider Law School
2006 – 2008 Trainee, various law firms

Education

2010 Practising certificate
2008 Master of Laws, University of Oslo

Lawyer Rankings

Norway > Insurance

Wikborg Rein‘s ‘highly competent team‘ assists with a wide range of insurance mandates, including contentious issues, transactions and regulatory work, and is particularly experienced in the shipping and marine sectors. Practice head Anders Færden is ‘deeply knowledgeable in marine insurance‘, as well as being an experienced litigator. The group also includes Herman Steen, who leads the shipping and offshore disputes department and regularly acts in international insurance cases; and Ole Andenæs, who assists insurance clients with regulatory, advisory and contentious work, as well as M&A transactions involving insurance companies. Other notable practitioners include Anne-Karin Nesdam, marine insurance specialist Halvard Saue, and Marte Sønstevold, who is experienced in both marine and non-marine insurance law.

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