Bull & Co Advokatfirma AS

Technology, IT and AI; Procurement; Competition law, state aid and EU/EEA

Christian Bendiksen is one of Norway’s leading lawyers whitin the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has more than ten years of experience in licensing AI-based systems as well as extensive knowledge of issues concerning access to training data, data protection and database infringement issues, as well as assembling, licensing and access control to IoT-data streams.

Christian has a French master’s degree in law and is a qualified English solicitor (England & Wales) and has a broad range of experience within international contracts, cross-border licensing and export issues. He writes the commentary to the Norwegian Export Control Act for the Karnov Publishing House. Christian was previously the partner responsible for public procurement law at a previous law firm and has more than 20 years of experience with handling procurement issues for Norwegian and foreign clients, and has lectured extensively on the issue both in Norway and abroad.

He is ranked by the Norwegian financial newspaper Finansavisen as one of the leading lawyers within technology and digitalisation, lectures on those issues for the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and the legal course provider JUC as well as for other organisations and clients.

2023 Partner, Bull 2013–2023 Partner, Brækhus Advokatfirma 2008–2013 Senior Lawyer and Partner, Advokatfirmaet Schjødt 2001–2008 Associate/Lawyer, Brækhus Advokatfirma 1999–2001 Senior Executive Officer, The Norwegian Defence Estates Agency

2005 Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test, College of Law, London 1999 Master of Laws, University of Oslo 1998 Master in EU-law and French private law, Université Francois Rabelais