Anders Ryssdal
Partner
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Anders Ryssdal has been a practicing attorney since 1984. He has tried a large number of cases in Norwegian and in international courts. He has appeared before the Norwegian Supreme Court 25 times, including 6 times in plenary and grand chamber sessions. Anders has wide experience as counsel in arbitrations and also sits as arbitrator on a regular basis, most often as chairman of the panel. He is frequently consulted as a trusted advisor by client top management and boards.
As a trial lawyer Anders holds particular experience in litigation involving company law, corporate law, M&A disputes, securities trading law, financial market law, contract law, tort and liability law, competition law, public and international law, and he has been counsel to a number of companies subjected to enforcement actions and compliance evaluations by public authorities. He is not infrequently supervising parallel proceedings in several jurisdictions. He is also an experienced board member, and chairman of election committees in quoted and non-quoted companies. Anders is ranked among Norway’s leading Dispute Resolution and Competition law lawyers by Chambers, Legal 500 and in the Norwegian Financial Daily’s annual lawyers survey. Work experience 2017 - Partner, Advokatfirmaet Glittertind AS 1993 - 2016 Partner, Advokatfirmaet Wiersholm 2004 - 2008 President, the Norwegian Bar Association 1990 - 1992 Research fellow, University of Oslo 1991 Acting Appeals Court judge 1984 - 1989 Staff attorney with the Norwegian Solicitor General, Civil Affairs 1979 - 1982 Research assistant, University of Oslo 1991 Admitted to the Norwegian Supreme Court Education 1995 Dr. juris, University of Oslo 1987 License to practise as attorney 1986 Master of Laws (LL.M.), Harvard Law School 1983 Cand. jur., University of Oslo Language English Reference Member of the Norwegian Bar Association Norwegian member of ICC Court of Arbitration |