Wikborg Rein

Contract and Construction, Litigation and Arbitration

Ola is the firm's Head of Disputes. He has substantial experience in litigation and dispute resolution and is admitted to the Supreme Court. Ola is recommended and referred to within his practice areas by inter alia Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, Legal 500, International Financial Law Review (IFLR) and Finansavisen. He frequently sits as arbitrator, and has represented for Norway in the ICC Court of International Arbitration in addition to being the chairman of the Arbitration and Dispute Resolution institute of the Oslo Chamber of Commerce and leader of the Norwegian Bar Association's Mediation Committee.

2012 - Partner, Wikborg Rein, Oslo 2012 Lecturer/Subject Coordinator, Contract Law I, Lillehammer University College 2008 - 2012 Attorney, Attorney General's Office 2004 - Lecturer in inter alia contract law and civil procedure, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo 2004 - 2007 Associate/Senior Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo 2003 Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo

Chairman, The Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Institute of the Oslo Chamber of Commerce Representative for Norway, ICC International Court of Arbitration Member of the Board, Wikborg Rein Member of the editorial board for Norwegian Business Law Review Chairperson, the Norwegian Bar Association's Mediation Committee Member, the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR (Norway) Member, Reference Group for the University of Oslo's Dispute Resolution Forum

2011 Admitted to the Supreme Court 2011 Visiting Research Fellow, Columbia Law School 2005 Visiting Scholar/Advanced Negotiation Workshop, Harvard Law School 2003 Master of Commercial and Corporate Law (LLM), King's College London 2003 Cand.jur., University of Oslo