Bård Breda Bjerken

Senior Lawyer

About Bård Breda Bjerken

Bård Breda Bjerken is a Senior Lawyer at Wikborg Rein's Shanghai office and is part of the firm's Shipping Offshore practice. Bjerken speaks fluent Norwegian and English and conversational French.

Work experience

  • 2022 -

    Senior Lawyer, Wikborg Rein, Shanghai

  • 2022

    Senior Lawyer, Wikborg Rein, London

  • 2019 - 2021

    Senior Associate, Wikborg Rein, London

  • 2019

    Associate (3 months), Wikborg Rein, Singapore

  • 2017 - 2019

    Associate, Wikborg Rein, London

  • 2015 - 2017

    Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo

  • 2014

    Research assistant, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, Oslo

  • 2013

    Intern (6 months), The Norwegian Permanent Delegation to the Council of Europe

  • 2009 - 2014

    Editorial Consultant (part-time), Gyldendal Rettsdata

Education

  • 2019

    Admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales

  • 2019

    Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme, Kaplan QLTS

  • 2018

    Practicing certificate

  • 2015

    Master of Laws, University of Oslo

  • 2015 - 2017

    Maritime Trainee program, Norwegian Shipowners' Association