Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Oil and gas, Oil service, M&A and corporate law, Dispute resolution, construction and contract law

Partner. Audun primarily advises Norwegian and foreign companies within Oil and Gas and within Oil Service. He assists oil companies with a broad variety of regulatory issues relating to the concession system and the joint operating agreement, including necessary contacts and intervention with the authorities including the MPE and other governmental bodies. Furthermore, he assists with contracts, transactions and dispute resolution. He has assisted buyers or sellers in a large number of transactions regarding transfer of participating interest in production licences on the Norwegian continental shelf (including transfer of interests in producing fields) or in the sale of shares in oil companies. Further, he has extensive assistance from dispute resolution and mediation within Oil and Gas and Oil Services and has acted both in capacity as litigator, Arbitrator/Judge or as mediator. Audun has over a long period been highly ranked for his competencies within oil and gas industry in different recognised legal awards.

2020- Partner, Stavanger office, Thommessen; 2012-2020 Partner, Kluge; 2011-2012 Senior Legal Advisor, Talisman Energy Norge AS (Now part of Repsol Norway); 2005-2011 Judge, Stavanger District Court; 2001-2005 Legal Advisor, BP Norge AS; 1997-2008 Lawyer and Senior Lawyer, Wikborg & Rein; 1996-1997 Deputy Judge, Midhordaland District Court; 1995-1995 Scholarship fellow Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Faculty of Law

Norwegian; English; German

Norwegian Bar Association

1990-1995 Candidate in Jurisprudence, University of Bergen; 1987-1989 College graduate, BI Norwegian Business School