Julia Skisaker

Senior Associate

About Julia Skisaker

Julia is part of the firm's Energy and Renewables practice.

She assists clients in relation to national and international transactions, projects and disputes within both the renewables and petroleum sectors, with a particular focus on onshore and offshore wind, hydropower, electricity, carbon capture and other offshore projects. She regularly advises clients in respect of acquisitions, financing, contract drafting and negotiation as well as regulatory matters.

Prior to joining the firm's practice in Oslo she worked at Wikborg Rein's London office where she specialised in international commercial projects and disputes within energy, shipping, offshore, international trade and ship construction/conversion.

Julia is dual qualified as a Norwegian lawyer and a Solicitor of England & Wales.

Work experience

  • 2022 -

    Senior Associate

  • 2021 - 2022

  • 2021 -

    Senior Associate , Wikborg Rein Oslo

  • 2019 - 2021

    Associate (Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales), Wikborg Rein, Oslo

  • 2018 - 2019

    Associate (Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales), Wikborg Rein, London

  • 2016 - 2018

    Trainee Solicitor

  • 2014 - 2016

    Paralegal, Wikborg Rein, London

  • 2012 - 2013

    Legal Intern, Wikborg Rein, London

Education

  • 2020

    Norwegian practising certificate

  • 2018

    Admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales

  • 2015 - 2016

    Legal Practice Course (as required to become a qualified solicitor in the UK), BPP Law School, London

  • 2011 - 2014

    BA Law (Jurisprudence), University of Oxford