Børre Gunnerud
Børre Gunnerud is an associate based in Wikborg Rein's Oslo office. Gunnerud is part of the Energy Natural Resources group. Gunnerud mainly works with petroleum law, but is also experienced in contract law, general administrative law and competition law. Prior to joining Wikborg Rein, Gunnerud worked for two years in the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, section for petroleum law. In the Ministry, he among other responsibilities worked with auditing and follow-up of concession documents, amending legislation and concession awards. In addition to the Bachelor of Law, Gunnerud has an LLM degree from the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany. In this relation, Gunnerud worked with different aspects of general European law, and he also wrote his M.A. degree thesis on the EEC-agreement's restrictions on state regulation of gas sales agreements. As associate in Wikborg Rein Gunnerud's work has mainly been related to the petroleum industry such as gas sales agreements, construction contracts, licensing applications, license transfers and acquisitions. Gunnerud has also worked with international contracts related to power production.
Since December 2006 Gunnerud has worked as advisor for the Cambodian government under a NORAD financed project. Gunnerud has spent long periods in Cambodia with responsibility for legal advice on development of petroleum legislation, capacity building and project coordination.
Curriculum Vitae
Relevant experience:
- Broad experience within norwegian petroleum legislationm, particularly with licensing, authority approvals, transfer of licenses and acquisitions
- Experience with construction and service contracts wirthin the petroleum industry
- Experience with drafting of legislation and poroduction sharing agreement
Work experience:
- 2009- Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
- 2006-2009 Advisor for the Cambodian National Petroleum Authority, Cambodia
- 2005- Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
- 2003–2005 Consultant, Olje- og energidepartementet
- 2000–2003 University of Oslo
Education:
- 2003 Cand. Jur. University of Oslo
- 2003 LLM Ruprecht Karl Universität, Heidelberg
