Wiersholm shortlisted for FT Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe 2023

The firm is shortlisted in the category for "Innovation in Client Delivery", and is the only Norwegian law firm nominated for an award.

Wiersholm is shortlisted for the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe 2023 based on the firm’s methodology for pursuing “Flawless Execution” for clients. The concept is developed by M&A partner Harald Hellebust, who took the methodology of Plan, Brief, Execute, Debrief (PBED) used by the US Air Force and adjusted it to fit a law firm. Harald has found the PBED methodology to be an effective way of creating and developing best practices.

– We appreciate Financial Times’ recognition of our structured way of working with our clients and projects. We are dedicated to assisting as efficiently and purposefully as possible on assignments and being the preferred adviser for our clients, Hellebust says.

Harald Hellebust has long been a leading figure in the M&A market in Norway for this pioneering approach to transaction project management and delivering value to clients. In fact, Wiersholm was also nominated for the FT Innovative Lawyer Awards 2019 in the category “Business of law – New products and services” for our digital project management system for transaction execution, then called Transaction Control. Hellebust was the lead partner in creating this product.

Marketing and Communications Director Christine Liæker Lindberg is responsible for client development in Wiersholm, and has been working alongside Hellebust and other partners since 2006 to constantly improve Wiersholm’s services:

– Being forward-looking and innovative is one of our values at Wiersholm. We always emphasize understanding, simplifying and improving the everyday lives of our clients, and the PBED methodology has proven to be a good way of streamlining and ensuring the quality of our work, Lindberg says.

In 2022, Wiersholm won an award at the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Europe Awards for the category “Innovation in overcoming barriers to finance” for the firm’s work on Norway’s first-of-a-kind full-scale carbon capture and storage chain (CCS) project.