About

Responsible for legal, compliance and corporate governance at Sporveien Group, Christina Wiggen has been continuously noted by peers in the region for her all round competence and diligence in the transportation sector. As group general counsel for Sporveien, a group of companies delivering tram, metro and bus services and building infrastructure and developing real estate in Oslo, Wiggen has significant influence on all major decisions, leading a team of six lawyers and one economist. Faced with large-scale projects of a procurement and construction nature and with plans to increase public transportation, Wiggen has been tasked with the leading the team through the procurement of 87 new trams alongside building infrastructure and bases for these new trams in Oslo, with a contract value of several billion NOK. After serving as an in-house counsel for seven years of her career, Wiggen took the step into a general counsel position upon joining Sporveien, subsequently creating an efficient legal function. Prior to his current role Wiggen spent four years as inhouse lawyer and compliance officer at EVRY, covering nine different countries. Wiggen says this period was very interesting and dynamic as it required her to delve into a variety of legal issues across jurisdictions including contract, compliance, employment law, competition law and M&A. On joining Sporveien, Wiggen embarked on a major restructuring, with plans to tailor the legal services needed from the company. This strategy included, ‘good service, fast response and new areas for some of the team members’. With the benefits of improved collaboration with the business and executive management Wiggen admits, ‘we also work much more with strategic legal advice for the business and understand and try to solve their problems. After three years I must say that it has been a success’. This has resulted in bringing considerable value to the company with better contract deals, better business understanding and control over risks. Internally, Wiggen has developed Sporveien’s compliance programme covering areas such as anti-corruption, competition law, health and safety regulations and human rights, all of which has informed Sporveien’s Code of Ethics.