Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS

Compliance

Partner

Thomas Brandi specializes in corporate governance, ESG, corporate compliance, and crisis management. He is a leading expert in the fields of anti-corruption, anti-money laundering/KYC, sanctions and export controls, human rights (the Transparency Act), and corporate investigations.

Thomas has extensive experience advising clients on navigating compliance and ESG risks associated with projects, business partners, and M&A activities domestically and in high-risk countries. He also has an extensive global network of leading white-collar crime specialists.

Further, Thomas' practice also includes assisting private equity managers and portfolio companies over diverse industries to identify and manage ESG and regulatory risks and ensure that expectations from investors, regulators, and other stakeholders are met from investment to divestment. Thomas is also regularly engaged by Norwegian property developers and contractors to manage integrity risk, focusing on supply chain management, work-related crimes (NO: Arbeidskriminalitet), and compliance related to public procurement.

His work within the compliance area comprises inter alia risk assessments, compliance program improvements, integrity due diligence, contract revisions, handling whistleblowing reports, legal opinions, audits and training.

Thomas Brandi is a member of the Norwegian Bar Association's Expert Panel on Corporate Governance and Compliance, a network leader of the Norwegian Bar Association's Specialist Forum on Compliance, and a member of the ICC Commission on Corporate Responsibility and Anti-Corruption. In addition, the Norwegian Bar Association appointed him to review its official guidelines for corporate investigations.

1997 - Master of laws, University of Oslo

1991 - Higher National Diploma, Oslo University College