Marius M Gisvold

Practice Areas

Marius Moursund Gisvold today practices mostly in the areas of Restructurings (solvent and insolvent) and Corporate M&A, with an emphasis on the business areas of finance, telecom, shipping and oil service, shipbuilding, retail and real estate.

Gisvold is regularly chosen as an arbitrator in major commercial arbitrations.

Career

Gisvold started as a research assistant and assistant professor writing the book “Contracts in the petroleum business” (awarded H.M. the Kings Gold Medal for outstanding research) at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law. Thereafter, in the period 1983-2019, Gisvold worked in Wikborg Rein Advokatfirma AS, from 1990 as a partner. From 1990 he was at the heart of the establishment of the Norwegian securities derivatives market and the development of Corporate M&A and Restructuring, and has since worked extensively with securities and exchange-related law, mergers and acquisitions and in the later years many major corporate restructurings with the emphasis on quick actions to save values, heading up the restructuring and sale of Norway's no.3 mobile provider Ice as well as several successfull and for good reasons unknown restructurings.

Gisvold served at the Rotterdam Office of Wikborg Rein in 1986-87 and the London Office (which he founded) in 1987-1990. Gisvold was a member of the board of directors of Wikborg Rein from 1990-95 and the firm’s managing partner from 1995-97.

Gisvold served as an Appeal Court Justice in Hålogaland Court of Appeal in 1990 and in Borgarting Court of Appeal 2000-2001. He has served as an arbitrator in several diverse matters.

Gisvold was for many years a external examiner at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo in the fields of mortgages, liens and security, insolvency and ownership and transfer of property as well as legal ethics.

Professional Memberships

Gisvold is a member of the Norwegian bar association and the Norwegian Association of Non-fiction Writers and Translators

Publications

Several publications on insolvency related matters, oil&gas law and law of property. Other non-fiction publications outside the field of law (from military experience).