Lennart Garnes > SANDS > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile
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CORT ADELERS GATE 33
0254 OSLO
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Lennart Garnes
Work Department
EU, EEA and competition law.
Position
Special Counsel
Career
Lennart Garnes is an expert in the fields of EU/EEA competition and state aid law. In addition he has heavy experience fromnational public administrative law. In particular, he works on cases concerning regulatory or competition related obstacles for market access and the exercise of business activities (based on EU/EEA free movement rules, secondary legislation and competition law) as well as state aid issues for private and public clients. With experience from national and European administrative bodies, he has first-hand insight into the political and legal processes of which legislation is adopted and applied. Lennart assists in processes towards, national authorities, the EFTA Surveillance Authority and the European Commission. Within his fields of practice, he is regularly involved in litigation processes.
At SANDS Lennart has been working with several highly principal cases concerning port access and the pricing of port services. Together with his earlier experiences from the transport area, he has gained particular knowledge in issues concerning access to and pricing of infrastructure and transport markets.
Before Lennart joined SANDS, he worked for the Internal Market Affairs Directorate of the EFTA Surveillance Authority. Prior to that he was a senior advisor at the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and advisor at the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. He served his compulsory military service at the military prosecution service and was deployed as a legal advisor (with the rank of major) to the Norwegian forces in Afghanistan.
Languages
Norwegian, English
Education
- 2003 – University of Durham (UK) – Master of European and International law (LLM)
- 2003 – University of Oslo – Cand. jur.
Lawyer Rankings
Norway > EU and competition
SANDS‘ ‘excellent team within EU and competition practice’ advises clients active in a wide range of industries, including the fisheries and aquaculture, waste and recycling, healthcare, and transport sectors. The team has a particular focus on providing competition compliance advice, assisting with merger control processes, and supporting in private damages litigation. The team is headed up by Aksel Joachim Hageler, who possesses expertise in infringement and access to the market cases as well as risk analysis related to merger proceedings. With ‘deep knowledge of competition law’, Thomas Sando routinely handles competition-related matters for large and medium-sized domestic and foreign companies. Special counsel Lennart Garnes has ‘broad knowledge’ of EU and EEA free movement rules, and public procurement, competition and state aid law.