About Geir Sviggum

Geir Sviggum is Wikborg Rein’s managing partner and a partner at the firm’s Oslo office. He headed the firm’s Shanghai office from 2008 to 2013 and was managing partner international with overall responsibility for Wikborg Rein’s international practice from 2012 to 2016 and Chairman of the Board of Directors from 2018–2023. Geir is ranked Band 1 by Chambers Europe within the Compliance category. His compliance speciality 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).