
Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS
Audun Stornes

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Energy: Oil & Gas - Norway
Band 2
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Practice Areas
Oil and Gas; Oil Service; M&A and Corporate Law; Dispute Resolution; Construction and Contract Law.
Audun primarily advises Norwegian and foreign companies within Oil and Gas and within Oil Service. He assists oil companies with a broad variety of regulatory issues relating to the concession system and the joint operating agreement, including necessary contacts and intervention with the authorities including the MPE and other governmental bodies. Furthermore, he assists with contracts, transactions and dispute resolution. He has assisted buyers or sellers in a large number of transactions regarding transfer of participating interest in production licences on the Norwegian continental shelf (including transfer of interests in producing fields) or in the sale of shares in oil companies. Further, he has extensive assistance from dispute resolution and mediation within Oil and Gas and Oil Services and has acted both in capacity as litigator, Arbitrator/Judge or as mediator. Audun has over a long period been highly ranked for his competencies within oil and gas industry in different recognised legal awards.
Career
2020- Partner, Stavanger office, Thommessen; 2012-2020 Partner, Kluge Lawfirm; 2011- 2012 Senior Legal Advisor, Talisman Energy Norge AS (now part of Repsol Norway); 2005-2011 Judge, Stavanger District Court; 2001-2005 Legal advisor, BP Norge AS; 1997-2001
Lawyer and senior lawyer, Lawfirm Wikborg & Rein; 1996-1997 Deputy Judge, Midhordland District Court; 1995-1995 Scholarship fellow, University of Bergen, Faculty of Law.
Professional Memberships
Norwegian Bar Association
Publications
2021: The Norwegian Chapter in "White-Collar Crime" in Chambers Global Practice Guide.
2021: The Norwegian Chapter in "International Arbitration" in Chambers Global Practice Guide.
2020: The Norwegian Chapter in "Litigation" in The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides.
Expert in these Jurisdictions
Norway
Awards
Recommended Lawyer, Dispute Resolution
The Legal 500
2021
Recommended Lawyer, Oil and gas
The Legal 500
2021
Recommended Lawyer, Offshore Construction and Shipsbuilding
The Legal 500
2021
Band2, Energy: Oil & Gas
Chambers & Partners Global
2021
Education
University of Bergen
Candidate in Jurisprudence
1990 - 1995
BI Norwegian Business School
College graduate
1987 - 1989
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Kirkegata 2
Stavanger
Rogaland
Norway
NO-4020 Stavanger

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Law and Practice
White-Collar Crime 2021 in NorwayAuthors: Henning Harborg, Audun Stornes, Svein Aage Valen, Hedda Rysst
Law and Practice
International Arbitration 2021 in NorwayAuthors: Audun Stornes, Per Ole Svor, Henrik Fabian Torgrimsby, Hedda Rysst
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