NORWAY Law and Practice Contributed by: Elisabeth Roscher, Geir Sviggum, Tine Vigmostad and Kristin Nordland Brattli, Wikborg Rein Advokatfirma AS
Wikborg Rein Advokatfirma AS is headquar - tered in Oslo and offers a full range of legal services to domestic and international clients. The firm also has offices in Bergen, Stavanger, London, Shanghai and Singapore. As Norway’s most international law firm, it is, together with its international offices and collaborating law firms, able to offer top-quality legal advice worldwide. Wikborg Rein’s ESG, Compliance and Crisis Management team assists private and public entities in preventing and detecting corruption and other economic crime or misconduct, both in Norway and abroad. The firm provides ad -
vice on corporate governance and assists in the development of compliance programmes within different areas of law. It also conducts integrity due diligence of various types of busi - ness partners and conduct, assists companies in performing internal investigations and pro - vides legal assistance to companies faced with potential corporate criminal liability. At the Oslo office, the team consists of 15 lawyers. Wikborg Rein is the preferred law firm for the Norwegian government (the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) for compliance matters worldwide.
Authors
Elisabeth Roscher is a partner at Wikborg Rein’s Oslo office and head of the firm’s ESG, Compliance and Crisis Management team. Elisabeth’s main areas of practice are
Geir Sviggum is Wikborg Rein’s managing partner and a partner at the firm’s Oslo office. He headed the firm’s Shanghai office from 2008 to 2013 and was managing partner
corporate compliance systems, including anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, international sanctions, responsible business conduct and human rights, private investigations and crisis management and criminal law, in particular, corporate criminal liability. Elisabeth was ranked the best compliance lawyer in Norway in the Norwegian Financial Daily’s annual lawyers’ survey in 2024. She is also ranked by Chambers Europe within the Corporate Compliance and Investigations category. Elisabeth was previously a senior public prosecutor with the Norwegian National Authority for Investigation
international with overall responsibility for Wikborg Rein’s international practice from 2012 to 2016 and Chairman of the Board of Directors from 2018–2023. Geir is ranked Band 1 by Chambers Europe within the Corporate Compliance and Investigations category. His compliance speciality focuses primarily on anti-bribery and crisis management, including criminal law consequences and civil disputes triggered by potential misconduct. He headed the largest compliance crisis matter in the Nordics in 2019 and 2020 (the investigation into the so-called Fishrot files in Namibia).
and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (ØKOKRIM).
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