Expertise

Mats focuses on civil disputes arising from misconduct, financial criminal cases, as well as crisis management and advisory work related to corruption matters.

He has extensive experience as defence counsel and has acted in numerous high-profile cases concerning corruption and financial crime. His practice also covers complex civil litigation, including matters involving directors’ and professional liability, insolvency, real estate, and cryptocurrency.

Mats is ranked among Norway’s leading lawyers in financial crime by Finansavisen’s annual lawyer survey, and has on several occasions previously been awarded the ‘Up & Coming’ category in the same ranking.

Experience

• 2017 – Present: Owner and Lawyer, Fend law firm DA
• 2011 – 2016: PhD Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo
• 2010: Acting Judge, Borgarting Court of Appeal
• 2009 – 2010: Judicial Assistant, Borgarting Court of Appeal
• 2007 – 2008: Deputy Judge
• 2006: Associate Lawyer, Arntzen de Besche law firm
• 2005: Ministry of Justice, Legislation Department and ØKOKRIM (Public Prosecutor’s Office)
• 2004: Research Assistant, Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo

Appointments

• 2014 – 2025: Lawyer in an appointed position, The Norwegian Bureau for Investigation of Police Affairs