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Ms Elisabeth Roscher

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Work Department

Compliance and Crisis Management

Position

Elisabeth Roscher is a Partner at Wikborg Rein’s Oslo office and is head of the firm’s Compliance and Crisis Management team.

Roscher was previously partner and head of the Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services team at EY Norway. She was also senior public prosecutor with Økokrim, heading up the Subsidy Fraud team. Roscher has extensive experience in both pleading and prosecuting cases before Norwegian courts, including several Økokrim cases before the Norwegian Supreme Court.

Elisabeth Roscher’s main areas of practice include:

– Corporate compliance in particular anti-corruption, anti-money-laundering, responsible business conduct and human rights and international sanctions and trade control

– Private investigations and crisis management for both national and international companies

– criminal law, in particular corporate criminal liability

Career

2019- Partner, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2016-2019 Specialist Counsel, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2011-2016 Partner/Lawyer, EY (Ernst & Young AS), Oslo
2002-2011 Senior Prosecutor, Økokrim, Oslo
2007-2008 Director Investigation, The Norwegian Competition Authority, Bergen
2000-2002 Head of Legal, The Norwegian Competition Authority, Oslo
1996-2000 Lawyer, Orkla ASA, Oslo
1995-1996 Lawyer, Hafslund Nycomed ASA, Oslo
1990-1995 Lawyer, Wiersholm, Oslo
1989-1990 Deputy Judge, Nedre Romerike County Court, Lillestrøm
1988-1989 Visiting Lawyer, Blake, Cassels & Graydon, Toronto, Canada

Memberships

Member, The Norwegian Bar Association’s Human Rights committee

Education

1988 Cand. Jur, University of Oslo
1987 Diploma in EU law, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium