Wikborg Rein

Competition and Procurement, Public Procurement

Malene is specialised in public procurement and has extensive experience in assisting suppliers and clients in large and complex procurement processes. In addition, she has solid experience within procurement law dispute resolution. The advice to clients in the public sector includes quality assurance of tender documents, as well as legal investigations of all types of procurement law issues that arise during the procurement process, and also an assessment of any potential consequences in connection with this. In addition, Malene works on subsequent contract follow-up, as well as conducting a number of assessments of the legality of variations after the contract has been entered into. Malene has worked within a number of sectors including health, defence, ICT, transport, construction and facilities, and consumables. She is a widely used lector and holds a number of lectures and courses within procurement law annually. Malene has also written a number of articles and is co-author in the book “Offentlige kontrakter, Aktuelle tema” published in 2020. Malene was ranked as "Rising star" in the area of public procurement in Legal500. "Malene Reinertsen has extensive experience within public procurement. She provided us with solid legal advice during the procurement process mentioned above. She has great experience from providing legal advice to other contracting authorities, and had a great understanding of us as a client. She is very easy to co-operate with, efficient and thorough." Legal 500, 2022

2022 - Senior Lawyer, Wikborg Rein, Oslo 2021 Senior Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo 2019 - 2021 Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo 2017 Advisor and tutor, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo 2015 - 2019 Forsvarets logistikkorganisasjon 2014 - 2015 Various trainee positions

2021 Practising certificate 2015 Master of Laws, University of Bergen 2013 Exchange student, University of Glasgow