Hanne S. Torkelsen
Hanne has worked as a business lawyer since 2000. Her experience includes practicing as deputy judge and as an attorney in various commercial law firms and organisations.
Hanne has broad expertise within business law. She has assisted both private and public entities with rendering legal opinions as well as dispute handling. Hanne has special expertise in State aid and public procurement legislation, contract law, insurance law, environmental law, and employment law, with particular emphasis on EU/EEA competition law.
She has industry knowledge of the municipal sector and has in-depth knowledge of the many special rules that follow from water and waste management, including the pollution legislation.
Practice
Partner in Lin Advokater AS from 2020
Partner in own practice, LYNX Advokatfirma, and SGB Storløkken from 2011 to 2020
Attorney-at-law in the Association of Local and Regional Authorities and Enterprises (KS) from 2005 to 2011
Associate in Advokatfirmaet Arntzen de Besche AS from 1999 to 2005
Deputy judge in Kragerø District Court from 1998 to 1999
Associate in Advokatfirmet Wiig & Co from 1997 to 1998
Publications
Aviation Law Review, the Norwegian chapter, in 5th, 6th and 7th edition (2017-2018-2019)
How to Safeguard Procedural Rights and Apply the Market Economy Investor Principle (MEIP) in a Tender Process, European State Aid Law Quarterly (EstAL 1/2015)
Education
Cand. jur., University of Bergen, 1996