Corporate and administrative sanctions
We also act as defense counsel in criminal cases and as counsel in investigations by public supervisory authorities.
Our lawyers have extensive experience in criminal cases, both in relation to corporate penalties and criminal cases resulting from alleged violations of competition rules.
Anders Ryssdal has conducted several competition law cases before the courts and has also acted as defence counsel in cases of alleged breaches of competition rules. He assisted Aschehoug against the Norwegian Competition Authority to have a fine for violations revoked. Ryssdal previously headed the competition law team at Wiersholm and was ranked for his work within competition law e.g., by Finansavisen‘s annual lawyer survey. He was chairman of Konkurranselovutvalget, which presented the proposal for the Competition Act of 1993. He is also the author of Joint ventures – en konkurranserettslig analyse (Joint ventures – a competition law analysis), 2003 and one of two authors of the publication Norsk konkurranserett (Norwegian competition law), 2018.
Cato Schiøtzhas handled a number of cases involving corporate penalties, including two cases before the Supreme Court, both of which ended in acquittal. The first case concerned a corporate penalty for an ice chunk falling from a roof, resulting in serious personal injury. The second was a case for Multiconsult AS concerning the company's criminal liability for corruption in Tanzania.
