Wikborg Rein

Ship and rig recycling, Offshore, Trade Compliance and Sanctions, Dispute Resolution, Maritime and Offshore, Emergency Response Shipping

Oddbjørn is part of the firm's Shipping Offshore group. He mainly assist clients within the field of maritime law and marine insurance, including litigation, casualty work and shipping/offshore transactions. Oddbjørn has assisted in numerous newbuilding and conversion projects; sale/purchase/affreightment projects; and project financing of ships, rigs and similar assets. He has extensive litigation experience and was admitted to the Norwegian Supreme Court in 2017. He also has extensive international experience, particularly from Wikborg Rein's office in Kobe, Japan, where he lived and worked as a maritime lawyer for several years, and though large projects in in East-Asia, North-Africa and Brazil. Oddbjørn is ranked by Chambers and Partners and Legal 500. Client testimonials in Legal 500 has described him as "is service-minded, available, mild-mannered but tough when needed." The Norwegian financial daily newspaper "Finansavisen" annual lawyer survey has ranked him as winner of the "Shipping" category three times.

2022 – Partner, Wikborg Rein, Oslo

2017 – 2022 Partner/Managing Partner, SANDS

2011 – 2017 Partner, Wikborg Rein, Oslo

2010 Senior Lawyer, Wikborg Rein, Oslo

2005 – 2009 Senior Associate/Japan Representative, Wikborg Rein, Oslo and Kobe, Japan

2001 – 2005 Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo

1999 Assistant Lecturer, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo

2018 – Board member The Norwegian Maritime Law Association (CMI)

2018 – Member of the Norwegian Bar Association's Maritime and Transportation Law Committee

2017 Admitted to the Norwegian Supreme Court

2003 Practising certificate

2000 Cand.jur., University of Oslo – Specialisation (International Law, Contracts), University of Sydney