Kvale Advokatfirma DA

EU and competiton law

Partner

2023 - : Partner and board member - Kvale

2012 - : Partner - Kvale

2009 - 2012: Senior Associate - Thommessen AS

2001 - 2009: Associate, Lawyer and Senior Lawyer - BA-HR

2001: Leader of the Secretariat of the Expert Committee for a new Competition Act

1999 - 2001: Advisor - The Ministry of Labour and Government Administration (the Departement of Competition Policy)

1996 - 1999: Senior Executive Officer/Advisor- The Norwegian Competition Authority

Norwegian, English, French

1995 - 1996: Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA) in European Law - Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne

1995: Cand. jur. - University of Oslo

1989: French - University of Oslo

Kristin Hjelmaas Valle works primarily within competiton law. She has extensive experience and competence within all aspects of competition law assignments, including mergers and acquisitions, cartel assignments and leniency processes, dominance questions, compliance questions, assessments of different kinds of cooperation agreements, and joint ventures as well as forms of distribution.

In addition Kristin assists within the fields of i.a. public procurements, state subsidies and other EU/EEA related problems, regulatorian question within life science, telecom and energy, marketing law and administrative law. She has also experience with corruption issues and investigations. Kristin has adviced clients within a range of fields and branches i.a. telecom, the pharmaceutical industry, the food industry, trade, media, oil-, gas and offshore industry, energy and shipping. She has for a number of years been ranked among one of the leading lawyers in Norway within her fields in international rankings.