Ms Mira Levánd Bergsland > Wikborg Rein > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile
Wikborg Rein Offices
Dronning Mauds gate 11
P.O.Box 1513 Vika
NO-0117 Oslo
Norway
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Ms Mira Levánd Bergsland
Work Department
Restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency, Financing
Position
Mira’s main areas of practice relate to insolvency and bankruptcy law, mortgage law, company law and enforcement actions. She works with restructuring projects with a special focus on insolvency and provides advice within a wide range of issues related to the operations of companies in financial distress. She has broad experience from complex and comprehensive restructurings of Norwegian companies in the oil/shipping sector. Her practice also include administration of bankruptcy estates, where she has been part of the teams administrating the bankruptcy estates of Faktor Eiendom ASA, Aksjespareklubben TA-Invest, Sydvaranger Gruve AS and Veireno AS. She is from April 2022 appointed as administrator in bankruptcy cases before Oslo City Court. Mira is the author of the legal commentary to the Wage Guarantee Law, published by Universitetsforlaget (available as a book and online at www.juridika.no). She is also the author of the notes to the Wage Guarantee Law published by Karnov Group Norway at www.lovdata.no. Mira has previously worked as a deputy judge with Oslo Byfogdembete, a court in Oslo who specialises in bankruptcy-/insolvency-, legal enforcement and provisional security cases. She is also an external examiner at University of Bergen (since 2015). Mira is ranked as “up and coming” within Restructuring and bankruptcy law in Finansavisen (2022 (3rd place) and 2023 (1st place), and recommended in Legal 500 as a “key lawyer” within her field.
Career
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Lawyer Rankings
Norway > Insolvency and corporate recovery
The ‘dedicated and skilled insolvency team’ at Wikborg Rein has expertise in both restructuring and insolvency mandates, and is particularly sought after for restructurings in the energy, shipping and offshore sectors. Practice head Kaare Christian Tapper has ‘an eye for details‘ and is a highly experienced practitioner in the insolvency and restructuring fields. The group also includes Stian Tande Mortensen, who specialises in debt financings with a focus on high yield bonds, direct lending transactions and financial restructurings; and Leif Petter Madsen, who is a competent litigator specialising in bankruptcies. The ‘experienced and solution-oriented‘ Sofie Vikse is a key practitioner in bankruptcy cases and advises companies and creditors on financial restructurings and insolvency issues, while Mira Levand Bergsland, who assists with bankruptcy and restructuring matters, is also recommended.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance (including shipping finance)
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- EU and competition
- Fishing and aquaculture
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Intellectual property
- Maritime law
- Offshore construction and shipbuilding
- Real estate
- Regulatory, compliance and investigations
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