Corporate Compliance & Investigations
Europe Guide 2024 : Norway
Band 2
About
Provided by BAHR
BAHR assists clients in a number of sectors in Norway and internationally. It advises on risk assessments, compliance reviews and audits, manages internal investigations and enforcement actions, and assists with developing and testing compliance policies and procedures and risk management programmes. It also conducts transactional and institutional due diligence reviews of compliance. It also advises on ESG, the European Green Deal and sustainability reporting. The firm’s Compliance and Risk Management team consists of specialists from a wide spectrum of practice areas, and cooperates closely with the firm’s range of specialists. The firm therefore offers advice in other areas which companies need to consider in connection with regulatory compliance, such as sanctions and export control, money laundering, corruption and bribery, human and working rights, sustainable finance, investigation of potential infringements, personal data protection and other licensing issues.
Chambers Review
BAHR has a full-service approach to compliance and anti-corruption matters, with particular expertise in anti-money laundering regulations. The law firm also handles sanctions and trade control, as well as advising clients on establishing compliance programmes. It acts for an impressive list of domestic and multinational clients.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"BAHR is able to quickly and coherently advise on complex matters involving novel and evolving areas of law."
"The team is very responsive and delivers on time."
"BAHR is able to quickly and coherently advise on complex matters involving novel and evolving areas of law."
"The team is very responsive and delivers on time."
Notable Practitioners
Morten Smørdal offers experience advising clients on the establishment of compliance programmes, sanctions and export control issues and corporate investigations. He further assists with anti-money laundering compliance.
"Morten Smørdal is able to handle complex issues in a short amount of time."
"Morten is very commercially savvy, extremely successful, runs a good team and cuts to the chase."
Ranked Lawyers at
BAHR
Norway