Ms Hanna Beyer Olaussen > Wikborg Rein > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile

Wikborg Rein
Dronning Mauds gate 11
P.O.Box 1513 Vika
NO-0117 Oslo
Norway

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Work Department

Technology and Digitalization

Position

Hanna is head of the firm’s specialist group for Intellectual Property law, Marketing law and IT-law practice group. As one of Norway’s leading technology lawyers, she has extensive experience in these areas, and works with strategic advice, contracts, M&A, disputes and IT procurements. Hanna assists with the protection and commercialization of technology, including digital solutions. She assists in drafting and negotiating contracts, including technology transfer agreements, license agreements, collaboration agreements, research and development agreements, terms of use, service and consultancy agreements, distribution, and agent and franchise agreements. She assists clients in transactions with a focus on securing, protecting and evaluating technology investments, including assessing risk in IT solutions. Hanna also works with trademarks, domains, company names, trademarks, marketing law, know-how, trade secrets and employee inventions, where the practice also includes assistance in dispute resolution. Hanna is ranked in Legal 500 both within intellectual property law and TMT (technology, media and communication) and in Finansavisen’s lawyer evaluation for “intellectual property law” and for “trade law”.

Career

2021 – Partner, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2018 – 2021 Specialist Counsel, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2015 – 2018 Senior Attorney, Advokatfirmaet Ræder
2005 – 2015 Attorney, Wiersholm Advokatfirma
2004 – 2010 Course Tutor and Examiner, University of Oslo
2004 – 2005 Associate, Svennson Nøkleby Advokatfirma

Memberships

2023 – Member of Bar Association’s law committee on Intellectual Property and Marketing law.

2022 – Leader of JUC ‘s network for intellectual property and marketing

Education

2017 Business Administration, Handelshøyskolen BI
2006 Law Practice Certificate
2003 Cand. Jur., University of Oslo
2002 Intellectual and IT law, University of Southampton
1997 Bachelor in Social Education, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences
1994 Elementary courses in psychology, University of Bergen

Lawyer Rankings

Norway > Intellectual property

(Next Generation Partners)

Hanna Beyer Olaussen – Wikborg Rein

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

(Next Generation Partners)

Hanna Beyer Olaussen – Wikborg Rein

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.

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