Audun Stornes

Lawyer information

Practice Areas

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 and has acted both in capacity as litigator, Arbitrator/Judge or as mediator.

Career

April 2020 - Partner, Thommessen; August 2012 - March 2020 Partner, Kluge; 2011-2012 Senior lawyer Talisman Energy Norge AS; 2005-2011 Judge Stavanger District Court; 2001-2005 Lawyer BP Norge AS; 1997–2001 Lawyer/Senior lawyer Wikborg, Rein & Co; 1996-1997 Assistant judge; 1995 - Research fellow University of Bergen.

Professional Memberships

Norwegian Bar Association.

Publications

2020: The Norwegian Chapter in "Litigation" in The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides

Personal

1990-1995 Candidate in Jurisprudence, University of Bergen; 1989-1987 College graduate, BI Norwegian Business School