Wikborg Rein

Renewable Energy and Green Investments, Fisheries and Aquaculture

Martin is a specialist in fisheries and aquaculture law, and works with regulatory issues, contracts and transactions. Martin has an extensive experience as a Director in the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, where he has lead numerous legislative processes in the field of fisheries and aquaculture and worked closely with the political leadership. Martin's practice also includes regulatory issues and transactions related to other industries - and in particular with an emphasis on public law framework conditions, government permits and bureaucratic and political processes.

2021 – Senior Lawyer, Wikborg Rein 2020 – 2021 Associate, Wikborg Rein, Bergen 2009 – 2020 Director, The Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries 2006 – 2009 Advisor/Senior Advisor, The Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs 2004 – 2005 Researcher, The Fridtjof Nansen Institute 2002 – 2003 Research Assistant, The Fridtjof Nansen Institute 1998 Corporal, His Majesty The King's Guard

2018 – Member of the Reference Group in a research project on Aquaculture Legislation 2017 – Member of the Council for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Center for Continuing Legal Education

2021 – Practising certificate 2019 Bureaucratic and Political Processes; Class of 2019, The Norwegian Defence University College 2016 Leadership programme, AFF 1996 – 2003 Cand.jur., University of Oslo