Ulf Werner Andersen

Knut Boye

Knut Boye was formerly partner in the law firm Simonsen Vogt Wiig.

He has extensive experience in dispute resolution, in courts and in arbitration and also alternative forms of dispute resolution such as mediation/court administered mediation. He has experience from assignments as an arbitrator and has conducted arbitration cases, also in the English language. He also has broad expertise in contract law of all kinds with special experience in construction law and project financing, secured transactions law, etc. particularly related to aviation financing. His practice also includes company law, debt and equity financing, acquisitions and mergers / demergers and restructuring. He has a law degree from 1980 and rights of audience before the Supreme Court since 1995, and supplemented his education with a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University in New York. He was in 2018 member of the Working Committee appointed by the Judges 'Association, the Bar Association and the Court Administration for the preparation of Common Guidelines for the processing of civil cases before the District Court and the Court of Appeal and was chairman of the Bar Association's Law Committee for Civil Procedure, member of the Lawyers' Education Committee. He regularly teaches for the Lawyers' Education Center, the Continuing Education Council for Judges and others in civil procedure, legal ethics and related subjects. Author of «Sakførsel» («Litigation») (4th ed. 2017) and «Preklusive frister i sivile saker» («Preclusive deadlines in civil cases») (2011) and a number of articles in legal journals.

Fred Gade

Jørgen Stang Heffermehl

Erik Keiserud

Nina Reiersen

John A. Rein

John A. Rein started his career as a university lawyer and an oil & gas specialist before moving on to Conoco’s exploration department in London (1979 – 81). He then went into private practice at law firm Wikborg Rein in Oslo where he was a partner 1985 – 2016. He now runs his own consulting business.

Rein has extensive experience from many sectors of commercial life, in particular oil & gas, shipping, property, media, capital markets and finance. As a litigator he has pleaded a large number of cases before the ordinary courts and in arbitration. He is admitted to the Supreme Court Bar. He has to date held between 50 and 60 directorships of Norwegian and international companies.

His primary focus at present is board work, but he also takes on legal consulting assignments from time to time.

Per Seime

Per Seime has long and substantial experience as oil and gas lawyer. He has been head of the oil and gas group in the law firm Simonsen Vogt Wiig, Counsel/General Counsel in Mobil Oil in Norway, USA and Indonesia, and General Counsel in Kongsberg Gruppen. In 2015, Seime started his own practice in the law firm Advokat Per Seime which is part of the collaboration BA2advokatene.

Seime advises companies in the petroleum industry on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and internationally on matters relating to the authorities, joint venture partners and contracts. A main part of his work relates to sale and purchase of license interests in producing fields and exploration licenses. Over the years, he has incorporated and assisted in start-up of subsidiaries of several foreign oil companies in Norway.

Seime has held a number of board memberships, particularly in oil companies, and is currently board member in Tethys Oil AB, listed in Stockholm.

Tom A. Torkildsen

Bjørn O. Øiulfstad

Lawyer Bjørn O. Øiulfstad's field of work is foundations. He became a lawyer in 1986.

His duties are the establishment, merging and liquidation of foundations. He also advises boards and general managers on good management of foundations, and how they should relate to the Foundations Act and the Norwegian Foundations Authority. Amendments to the articles of association and purpose provisions are included in the work tasks. Lawyer Øiulfstad holds courses on good management of foundations, and the changes to the regulations proposed in the proposal for a new foundation law. Øiulfstad is the general manager of the Foundation Association in Norway.

He has also worked in the field of culture as a legal advisor and board member.

Lawyer Øiulfstad has work experience from Law Firm Steenstrup Stordrange, lawyer in the group staff in DNV GL, Storebrand Kapitalforvaltning AS (Infrastructure investments in the power sector), Oslo Stock Exchange (Director with responsibility for sales of market information, and development of new business areas), NOS ASA (General Manager of Clearinghouse for trading in derivatives in Norway; Oslo Stock Exchange, Power Exchange Nord Pool and the Shipping exchange Imarex).

He has been a member of several law committees.