NORWAY Law and Practice Contributed by: Elisabeth Roscher, Tine Vigmostad, Geir Sviggum and Kristin Nordland Brattli, Wikborg Rein Advokatfirma AS
Geir Sviggum is Wikborg Rein’s managing partner and a partner in the firm’s Oslo office. He headed the firm’s Shanghai office from 2008 to 2013, and was international managing
Kristin Nordland Brattli is a partner in Wikborg Rein’s Oslo office and is part of the firm’s ESG, Compliance and Crisis
Management team. Kristin focuses on anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, international sanctions and responsible business conduct/human rights. Kristin has extensive experience from cross-border private investigations and crisis management cases, including one of the largest corruption and money-laundering cases to affect a Nordic company in recent years. Kristin also assists in setting up compliance programmes and with advising on preventative corporate compliance measures. Previously, Kristin worked on international trade law in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as on anti-money laundering and sanctions matters in Norway’s largest financial institution.
partner with overall responsibility for Wikborg Rein’s international practice from 2012 to 2016 as well as chairman of the board of directors from 2018 to 2023. Geir is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers Europe within the Corporate Compliance and Investigations category. His compliance specialty 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).
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