AEEC IN OSLO
NORWAY
ADVOKATFIRMAET HAAVIND AS
Haavind is one of Norway’s leading full-service law firms with over 170 lawyers. Our main office is situated in Oslo. Our industry focus combined with specialized lawyers in 22 different practice areas give us a unique position to handle legal issues and create opportunities for our clients. We act on behalf of some of Norway’s largest companies, as well as major public entities. Across the business sectors we offer excellent services within energy law, employment law, corporate, as well as dispute resolution.
Haavind is one of Norway`s highest-ranked business law firms and ranked at top in a number of categories by Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners, as well as IFLR1000. Our teams are leading in areas such as renewable energy, construction and real estate, technology/media/IP, dispute resolution, employment law, aquaculture and public procurement. Haavind is known for being solution oriented and commercial.
Offices
Oslo, Bergen, Bodø, Svalbard (Longyearbyen)
Staff
215
Accredited professionals
122
Partners
53
Dedicated departments in the field of energy and climate
Energy/Renewable energy, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
Accredited professionals active in the field of energy
20
Other departments
Banking and Finance, Competition and trade, Construction and offshore, Corporate M&A, Dispute resolution, Employment and pension, Financial regulatory, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Food, Insolvency and restructuring, Intellectual property rights, Media, Privacy, Property Development, Property transactions, Protech, Public procurement, Stock exchange and capital markets, Taxes and duties, Technology.
Clients in the field of energy and climate
Our client base includes norwegian and international public and private companies as well as state utilities and government authorities for example Statkraft, Statnett (Norwegian TSO), Skagerak, Helgeland Kraft, Vattenfall, Axpo, Salten Kraftsamband, Hydro Energi, Stadtwerke München, BlackRock.
We are engaged as legal advisor for Renewables Norway, a non-profit industry organization representing about 400 companies involved in the production, distribution and trading of electricity in Norway, and have through our co-operation with the Federation of Norwegian Industries and Innovation Norway contributed to the creation of the Entry Program for Offshore Wind.
We are involved in the majority of the largest wind power production projects, both on- and offshore, hydropower production and electricity grid projects, thus making our contribution in terms of legal and strategic advice to develop new renewable energy and encourage environmentally friendly solutions and energy production and consumption.
Approach
Our team of legal and industry experts within renewable energy is one of the strongest in Norway, giving legal and strategic advice to all areas of the energy sector. We have for decades worked closely with key players in the energy sector, both domestic and international players, including the largest power, grid and energy trading companies in the Nordics. Our energy team is of high strategic importance to Haavind and is recognised as one of Norway’s strongest legal practices in the energy sector.
The team’s lawyers cover all legal aspects of the energy sector including structural ownership issues (M&A), regulatory matters (including related to energy trading), financing (project financing, PPAs etc), contractual matters and litigation.
The lawyers have experience from the industry, as lawyers and from working at the Ministry of Energy. In addition, we are considered among the most experienced law firms within dispute resolution, counselling in the majority of the most important and principled energy cases in the Supreme Court since 2010. Our teams consist of legal experts with a commercial mindset, ready to offer the best possible advice and solutions for our clients.
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Oslo, Bergen, Bodø, Svalbard (Longyearbyen)
ADVOKATFIRMAET HAAVIND AS
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+ 47 22 43 30 00
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http://www.haavind.no
CONTACT PERSON
FOR AEEC MATTERS
Aksel Tannum
VITA
Partner
Real Estate / Energy
Aksel S. Tannum specializes in Renewable Energy/regulatory issues and Litigation. He is Partner and head of Haavind’s Energy department, as well as a member of the Litigation department.
Key qualifications:
Tannum has worked with the energy sector since 2000, when he was an employee at the Department of Energy law at the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. He worked in the Ministry until 2005 and was, amongst other things, involved in several central legislative processes. In addition to trade and industry knowledge, his employment at the Ministry has given Tannum important insight into the Ministry’s decision-making processes and a network of contacts, both in the Ministry and at The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate. Tannum was employed at Haavind in 2005, and has mainly worked with counselling and litigation for the Energy industry.
Tannum has wide experience with legal counselling and dispute resolution, including the Supreme Court, within the renewable Energy sector. He has inter alia comprehensive experience with legal issues regarding grid operations, power generation (hydro and wind power), electricity trading and district heating.
Work experience:
- Partner, Advokatfirmaet Haavind (2013 – )
- Associated partner, Advokatfirmaet Haavind (2011 – 2013)
- Associate/Senior associate,
Advokatfirmaet Haavind (2005 – 2011)
- Counsellor at judicial section,
Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (2000 – 2005)
- Legal secretary, Hjemfallsutvalget (NOU 2004:26)
Education:
- University of Bergen (2000)
Other:
Publications:
- Co-author of Gyldendal Rettsdata’s commentary on the Energy law,
- Block, Guy et.al.: Renewable Energies, Interlaw 2015 – Norway
Memberships:
- Member of the Norwegian Bar Association
- Former representative to the Norwegian Bar Association.
- Former member of Juristenes Utdanningssenters expert committee for energy law
International rankings:
Tannum is ranked among the leading Energy lawyers by renowned institutions like Chambers & Partners og Legal 500.
From Legal500 recent years:
«Aksel S. Tannum is an energy market specialist with enviable industry knowledge»
«Within Electricity, nuclear and renewable, Haavind AS, Advokatfirmaet is a first tier firm… and Aksel Tannum recently advised Foreningen til Bægnavasdragets regulering on revising conditions for concessions in Åbjøra and Aurdalsfjord.»
From Chambers & Partners recent years:
«Aksel S. Tannum is definitely a practitioner to watch»
«According to peers, younger lawyer Aksel Tannum is “one to watch – he definitely has lots of potential.” He receives glowing praise from clients, who appreciate that “he delivers according to his promises, communicates well, and is very available and easy to work with.” Tannum’s background at the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy means that he has strong regulatory knowledge and a good relationship with the relevant authorities.»
«Practice head Aksel Tannum previously worked at the Ministry of Petroleum & Energy, and the knowledge and experience he can bring from this time is appreciated by clients. Sources also praise his strategic thinking.»
Mari Reitzel Bjerke
VITA
Senior Lawyer
Energy, Construction, Litigation
Key qualifications:
Mari specialises in Renewable Energy, Contract law/Construction law and Litigation, and has ten years’ experience as adviser to players within the renewable energy sector.
She advises on issues related to hydroelectric power production, district heating, grid development and wind power, especially related to regulatory issues and constraints, contractual matters, concession issues, establishment and development of power production, energy related transactions, acquisition of waterfall and land rights, government requirements and appraisement. She has extensive experience with complex energy transactions, especially within hydro power and wind power, as adviser to both seller side and buyer side.
Mari also has extensive litigation experience, and significant construction law competence, especially from working with the development of power production facilities within hydro power and wind power. In 2017, she was appointed Next Generation Lawyer within the category Electricity and Renewable Energy by Legal 500
Work experience:
Lawyer/senior lawyer, Haavind (2013 – )
Deputy judge, Follo District Court (2013)
Counsellor, EMAS AMC (project based) (2012)
Associate/lawyer, Advokatfirmaet Haavind (2007 – 2012)
Education:
jur., University of Oslo (2007)
License to practice law (2010)
Miscellaneous:
International rankings:
Appointed Next Generation Lawyer within the category Electricity and Renewable Energy by Legal 500 (2017)
Publications:
Block, Guy et.al.: Renewable Energies, Interlaw 2015 – Norway
Memberships:
Member of The Norwegian Bar Association and The Norwegian Association of Lawyers.
