About Geir Sviggum

Geir Sviggum is Wikborg Rein’s managing partner and a partner in the firm’s Oslo office. He headed the firm’s Shanghai office from 2008 to 2013, and was international managing partner with overall responsibility for Wikborg Rein’s international practice from 2012 to 2016 as well as chairman of the board of directors from 2018 to 2023. Geir is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers Europe within the Corporate Compliance and Investigations category. His compliance specialty focuses primarily on anti-bribery and crisis management, including criminal law consequences and civil disputes triggered by potential misconduct. He headed the largest compliance crisis matter in the Nordics in 2019 and 2020 (the investigation into the so-called Fishrot files in Namibia).