Energy

Over many years, Wiersholm has built up a team of legal professionals with years of experience in the energy sector, and we are currently a major provider of legal services to energy producers, energy traders and grid companies in the form of ongoing advisory services and litigation in connection with the problems that are relevant to these companies.

Wiersholm has also contributed to the development of several financial solutions used in this sector, and we offer leading expertise in Norway with respect to finance and transaction-oriented law adapted to the energy sector.

The legal areas we work with include:

      Structural changes, acquisitions, mergers and spin-offs
      Questions concerning licences in connection with the Energy Act, the
        Industry Licensing Act, the Watercourse Regulation Act and the
        Watercourse Act, etc. 
      Regulatory matters concerning the income ceiling system, tariffs and other
        monopoly regulation of grid companies 
      Public law aspects, including administrative law and tender law 
      Energy taxation (see also details under “taxation”) 
      Rights in connection with public and private landowners, including
        appraisement and expropriation 
      Physical and financial energy contracts 
      Virtual products
      Multi-utility legal matters 
      Assistance for the purchase of goods and services for the energy sector 
      Assistance in connection with arbitration processes 
      Litigation