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Provided by Kristin Hjelmaas Valla
- Competition law
- EU/EEA law
- Public procurement
- Retail and merchandising
2025 - current: Chairman of the board, 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. She has for a number of years been ranked among one of the leading lawyers in Norway within her fields in international rankings.
Competition and Cartel Leniency Global Guide, Merger control in Norway (2018)
Restraints of trade and dominance in Norway (2017)
Cartel Leniency in Norway (2017) co-authored
Norwegian, English
University of Oslo
Cand.jur.
1999
Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne
Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA) in European Law
1996
Kristin Hjelmaas Valla chaired the committee tasked with reviewing the Norwegian Competition Act. The committee was appointed by the Norwegian government to conduct a comprehensive evaluation and modernization of the Competition Act.
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
Kristin Hjelmaas Valla is a really good person to work with. She is outcome focused and she is committed to defending the client.
She is highly responsive, solution-oriented and demonstrates an impressive understanding of our industry.
Kristin Hjelmaas Valla is the main reason why the Kvale team works so well. She is very experienced and she really knows the ins and outs of competition law.
She is highly skilled, has a commercial mindset and always delivers high quality.
Kristin Hjelmaas Valla is a really good person to work with. She is outcome focused and she is committed to defending the client.
She is highly responsive, solution-oriented and demonstrates an impressive understanding of our industry.
Kristin Hjelmaas Valla is the main reason why the Kvale team works so well. She is very experienced and she really knows the ins and outs of competition law.
She is highly skilled, has a commercial mindset and always delivers high quality.