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Position:Partner
Email:slj@wiersholm.no
Telephone:+47 210 210 00
Mobile:+47 97 73 37 50
Language:Norwegian, English
Secretary:Bjørg Knutsen
Email:bk@wiersholm.no
Direct line:+47 210 212 75
Stephan L. Jervell works with litigation, dispute resolution and negotiations, as well as public law framework conditions for trade and industry, including EU/EEA law. He has particular knowledge of administrative law, competition law, state aid and procurement law and contract law. Stephan L. Jervell is admitted to the Supreme Court, and litigates regularly before Norwegian courts. He has also litigated before the EFTA Court and carried out several hearings before the EU Commission. He has also been an arbitrator in national and international arbitrations. In recent years, Stephan L. Jervell has been highly engaged in international arbitrations involving the shipping and oil and gas industry and competition law matters and he has litigated many cases within the ICC and SCC systems and also been engaged in ad hoc arbitration. Stephan L. Jervell is the author of a number of textbooks and articles.

Stephan L. Jervell is ranked amongst Norway's leading lawyers in his areas of expertise. This includes a band 1 ranking in litigation and dispute resolution in Chambers Global and Chambers Europe, band 1 ranking in procurement law in Chamber Europe and a band 2 ranking in competition law in Chambers Europe. He is also ranked in Legal 500, and amongst Norway's leading lawyers in the categories litigation and competition law in the Norwegian Financial Daily’s lawyers survey.
Professional experience
Partner at Wiersholm since 2000
Board membership in several Norwegian and foreign enterprises, including chairman of the board in the Norwegian Touring Theatre and in the OVF (Opplysningsvesenets Fond)
Visiting Scholar at the Centre of European Law, University of Oslo, 1998-1999
Full time member of the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission concerning the Norwegian Bank crisis, 1997-1998
Lawyer at the Office of the Attorney General (civil affairs), 1993-2000
Education
Admitted to the Supreme Court, 1999
Cand. jur., University of Oslo, 1992
Master of Laws, Harvard Law School, 1994
Jervell is educated as a mediator and has education as an arbitrator
Areas of Practice
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Energy and Offshore
  • EU and Competition Law
  • Governmental Regulation
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