Arntzen de Besche

Electricity and renewable energy.

Partner. Wasenden is acknowledged as one of Norway’s foremost legal experts in the field of renewable energy and climate law. He works on a broad front within energy law, contract law, securities trading and stock exchange law and environmental law. He is a Doctor of Laws from the University of Oslo and wrote his doctoral thesis on the energy market. He has over 20 years’ experience as a practising lawyer, with renewable energy as his specialist field.

As an advisor to the energy sector, Wasenden has assisted a number of Norwegian and international enterprises on contractual and compliance matters, as well as contact with the authorities, in connection with both transactions and disputes. He also has extensive in-house experience from working at Statnett and Nasdaq.

Wasenden has wide-ranging and in-depth knowledge of industry and quickly familiarises himself with the framework conditions applicable to the various cases he works on. He is analytical and is able to see the legal, operational, political and technological perspectives of a case, in order to provide advice that really makes a difference for his clients.

Since May 2020, Wasenden has been affiliated with BI Norwegian Business School as an Adjunct Executive in Residence, where he focuses on the Executive Master in Energy Management programme.

He regularly publishes academic works of varying sizes on energy and climate law, and is often requested as a public speaker in various forums.

2020 - Arntzen de Besche - Partner

2019, Nasdaq Oslo (via Wiersholm) - Legal counsel

2015 - 2018, Statnett SF (via Wiersholm) - Legal counsel

2013 - 2019, Wiersholm - Senior Lawyer

2009 - 2013, Wiersholm - Partner

2007 - 2009, Wiersholm - Senior lawyer

2002 - 2006, Universitetet i Oslo - Doctoral Research Fellow

2001 - 2007, Wikborg Rein & Co. - Senior Associate

1999, Allen & Overy London (via Wikborg Rein & Co) - Trainee solicitor

1998 - 2001, Wikborg Rein & Co. - Associate

1995 - 2000, University of Tromsø - Various teaching assignments in law

1993 - 1998, Norwegian Armed Forces - Operational office

Norwegian, English

Norwegian Bar Association.

2006, University of Oslo - Dr. juris

1998, University of Tromsø - Cand.jur. (Qualifying law degree)

1996 - 1997, University of Tromsø - Research Assistant

1989 - 1991, Royal Norwegian Naval Academy. Operational programme, emphasis on social studies

1987 - 1988, Coast artillery officers’ training school. Operational programme