Morten Ulland Henriksen

Morten joined the firm in 2018. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Bergen. Morten also has a degree in comparative politics from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Bergen, with a specialisation in the EU. This makes him especially capable of assisting clients that have businesses that operate within industry sectors governed by EU/EEA regulations to understand and adapt to this in their day-to-day business. He also assists clients in dialogue and application procedures towards public governmental agencies like the Norwegian Medical Product Agency, the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries and the Norwegian Consumer Authority

Morten is also one of the firm's leading experts within competition law and the Norwegian foreign direct investment regulation (FDI). On FDI-matters he regularly advises clients with bidding on security graded procurements, acquiring a facility security clearance or notifying acquisitions of a qualified ownership interest in companies who holds a facility security clearance and/or have received a decision making it subject to the Norwegian Security Act. On competition law he advises on all aspects, including issues linked to the prohibition of anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominant position. He helps clients across industries to navigate competition law when entering into new agreements for both smaller and larger clients and to assess the legality of existing agreements within and outside a M&A setting. He also has broad experience with assessing and notifying mergers and control-acquiring transactions to Norwegian and European competition authorities.

In addition, Morten has a special responsible for all foreign subsidiary regulation matters (FSR) including assessing and filing transactions that would trigger an FSR-filing to the European Commission. He regularly helps client's in navigating the state aid regime including applying for state aid support schemes and reporting state aid to the EFTA Surveillance Authority. His area of expertise also extends to public procurement matters where he mostly advises private undertakings in connection with preparing bids for public tenders and challenge award-decisions including submitting a formal complaint to KOFA.

Overall Morten is part of Schjødt's Advisory department and has extensive experience within a wide range of commercial law matters across industry sectors like telecoms, logistics, fisheries, groceries, media, publishing, energy, and industrial productions. He assists clients in negotiating, drafting and interpreting contracts including supplier, distribution, franchise, framework and other cooperation agreements. He also advises clients in how to set-up and operate their business most efficiently within the relevant legal framework.