Kristin Hjelmaas Valla

Practice Areas

Competition law, EU/EEA law, Public procurement, Retail and merchandising

Career

2012 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

Personal

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.