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Provided by Kristin Hjelmaas Valla
- Competition law
- EU/EEA law
- Public procurement
- Retail and merchandising
2023 - current: Board member, Kvale
2012 - current: Partner, Kvale
2009 - 2012: Senior Associate, Thommessen AS
2001 - 2009: Associate, Lawyer and Senior Lawyer, BA-HR
2001: Leader of the Secretariat of the Expert Committee for a new Competition Act
1999 - 2001: Advisor, The Ministry of Labour and Government Administration (the Departement of Competition Policy)
1996 - 1999: Senior Executive Officer/Advisor, The Norwegian Competition Authority
Kristin Hjelmaas Valle works primarily within competiton law. She has extensive experience and competence within all aspects of competition law assignments, including mergers and acquisitions, cartel assignments and leniency processes, dominance questions, compliance questions, assessments of different kinds of cooperation agreements, and joint ventures as well as forms of distribution.
In addition Kristin assists within the fields of i.a. public procurements, state subsidies and other EU/EEA related problems, regulatorian question within life science, telecom and energy, marketing law and administrative law. She has also experience with corruption issues and investigations. Kristin has adviced clients within a range of fields and branches i.a. telecom, the pharmaceutical industry, the food industry, trade, media, oil-, gas and offshore industry, energy and shipping.
English
Norwegian
French
University of Oslo
Cand. jur.
1995
University of Oslo
French
1989
Provided by Chambers
Kristin Hjelmaas Valla represents clients in investigations into allegations of discriminatory pricing and abuse of dominance, as well as acting for clients on subsequent appeals. She also assists with merger control filings and competition law compliance issues.
Provided by Chambers
She is very good at substantive matters, and a very pleasant person to work with. Things glide nicely when she is involved, she is very on top of facts, so we trust her and have confidence in her.
She has outstanding academic skills, a commercial mindset, knows how to handle all regulatory aspects, and she has very high integrity and is an advisor you could really rely on.
She is very good at substantive matters, and a very pleasant person to work with. Things glide nicely when she is involved, she is very on top of facts, so we trust her and have confidence in her.
She has outstanding academic skills, a commercial mindset, knows how to handle all regulatory aspects, and she has very high integrity and is an advisor you could really rely on.
