Mr Anders Færden > 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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Mr Anders Færden
Work Department
Shipping Offshore, Litigation and Arbitration, Insurance Law
Position
Anders is a specialist in insurance law and marine insurance law and is the head of Wikborg Rein’s global insurance team. He also has substantial experience in handling marine, contract, tort, professional liability and intermediaries disputes. Anders is admitted to the Norwegian Supreme Court and has extensive litigation experience from a vast number of cases before the Norwegian courts and in arbitration. He is appointed as arbitrator and expert in insurance matters. Anders is ranked by Legal 500 as a “leading individual” in insurance law. He is also ranked by Chambers and Partners and in the Norwegian Financial Daily’s lawyers survey within the categories shipping and insurance.
Career
2005 – Partner, Wikborg Rein
2000 – 2005 Partner, Vogt & Wiig
1993 – 2000 Partner, Evensen & Co
1991 – 1993 Associate, Evensen & Co
1989 – 1990 Deputy Judge, Gjøvik District Court
1988 – 1991 Associate, Thommessen Krefting Greve, Oslo and London
Memberships
Norwegian Bar Association.
Education
2000 Admitted to the Supreme Court
1992 Practising Certificate
1987 Cand. jur., University of Oslo.
Lawyer Rankings
Norway > Insurance
(Leading individuals)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.
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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