Anders Færden
Wikborg ReinWikborg Rein‘s ’highly competent team‘ assists with a wide range of insurance mandates, including contentious issues, transactions and regulatory work, and is particularly experienced in the shipping and marine sectors. Practice head Anders Færden is ’deeply knowledgeable in marine insurance‘, as well as being an experienced litigator. The group also includes Herman Steen, who leads the shipping and offshore disputes department and regularly acts in international insurance cases; and Ole Andenæs, who assists insurance clients with regulatory, advisory and contentious work, as well as M&A transactions involving insurance companies. Other notable practitioners include Anne-Karin Nesdam, marine insurance specialist Halvard Saue, and Marte Sønstevold,��who is experienced in both marine and non-marine insurance law.
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‘A highly competent team with global reach, and particularly strong in marine insurance. Norway's only truly international law firm.’
‘Anders Færden is deeply knowledgeable in marine insurance.'
'Herman Steen is rising name in litigation, in particular for wet law and marine insurance disputes.'
Key clients
- Assuranceforeningen Gard
- Gard Marine & Energy Ltd
- Codan Insurance
- AXA XL
- Norwegian Hull Club
- Assuranceforeningen SKULD
- Hydor AS
- RSA
- Zürich Insuranc
- The Swedish Club
Work highlights
- Successfully represented marine insurers in a Constructive Total Loss dispute.
- Successfully defended Zurich Insurance in a direct action claim under Directors and Officers Insurance.
- Assisting the H&M insurers Norwegian Hull Club and the P&I insurers Gard P&I (Bermuda) Ltd as global lead counsel following the casualty of the highly specialised subsea construction and pipe laying vessel SKANDI BUZIOS, which caught fire at the port of Açu, Brazil on 2 June 2023.
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Anders Færden