Mr Lars Erik Steinkjer > 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 Lars Erik Steinkjer
Work Department
Technology and Digitalization
Position
Lars Erik is head of the firm’s Technology and Digitalisation group. He has a degree in law from the University of Bergen in 2004 and obtained his PhD at the same place in 2010. Lars Erik has extensive experience assisting clients in intellectual property rights (IPR) matters, including advice on securing, licensing and enforcing intellectual property rights. Lars Erik assists our clients with strategic advice, drafting and negotiation of agreements. He has been involved in a number of major disputes related to the enforcement of intellectual property rights and assists both international and domestic companies before the Norwegian courts. Lars Erik is a board member and vice-chair of NIR (the Norwegian Association for the Protection of Industrial Property) and the Norwegian AIPPI board.
Career
2022 – Partner, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2019 – 2022 Legal Counsel, PGS
2017 – 2019 Specialist Counsel, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2015 – 2017 Senior Lawyer, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2011 – 2014 Senior Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2010 – 2011 Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2010 Associate, Wikborg Rein, Bergen
2009 Lecturer, The Faculty of Law, University of Bergen
2005 – 2009 Scholarship holder, The Faculty of Law, University of Bergen
1998 – 1999 Kvartermester og instruktør, Lett Missil Bateri, Trondenes Øvingsavdeling
Education
2011 Practising certificate
2010 Doctoral dissertation in Law (PhD), University of Bergen
2004 Cand.jur., University of Bergen
1997 – 1998 Officers’ training school, coast artillery
Lawyer Rankings
Norway > Intellectual property
Lauded by clients as ‘one of Norway’s strongest‘, Wikborg Rein’s intellectual property offering spans all core areas of IP law, with notable emphasis on contentious matters, particularly patent litigation. Hanna Beyer Olaussen heads up the ‘stellar‘ team, which sits within the firm’s broader tech and digitalisation practice, led by Lars Erik Steinkjer. Olaussen advises start-ups and large multinational corporations on intellectual property rights related to emerging technology, while Steinkjer has particular experience handling complex patent disputes in the offshore, aquaculture, and pharma sectors. The core team also includes Gunnar Meyer
, who is ‘one of Norway’s most experienced patent litigators‘, as well as the ‘highly competent‘ Nora Bratheim.
Norway > TMT
Described by clients as ‘exceptionally well versed in GDPR regulations‘, the TMT team at Wikborg Rein stands out for its expertise in technology matters, IT contracts and procurements, and data protection and privacy matters; the ‘outstanding‘ Rolf Riisnæs is a key name here. Cross-border work is a core area of expertise for the team, which is led by Lars Erik Steinkjer. Hanna Beyer Olaussen leads on IP work as well as media and telecoms matters, while Gry Hvidsten heads up the data protection offering. Also in the core team is the ‘extremely knowledgeable‘ Wegard Kyoo Bergli, who works alongside Hvidsten on privacy matters.
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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