Filip Truyen

Filip Truyen is both Professor, Doctor of Laws at the University of Bergen and partner in Wikborg, Rein & Co. He is among Norway's leading experts on company law. Truyen has published scientific work with focus on shareholder conflict, directors' liability, corporate governance, compulsory acquisition and enterprise valuation. Truyen's publications also include stock exchange and securities law, legal issues regarding securities fund and investment companies, bankruptcy and recovery and civil proceedings. Filip Truyen also has broad experience as lawyer and Appellate Court Judge. He is often used as arbitrator in cases which involve company law and contract law.

Curriculum Vitae

Work experience:

• 2010 - Partner, Wikborg, Rein & Co. 
• 2007 - Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen
• 2004-2007 Associate university professor, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen
• 2000-2004 Reseach fellow, Faculty of law, University of Bergen
• 1995-2000 Appellate court judge, Gulating Court of Appeal (acting 1995-1996)
• 1993-1995 Lawyer/associate, Office of the Attorney General
• 1991-1993 Senior executive officer, Legislation department, Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police
• 1990 Editor, "Jussens Venner" (Norwegian University Law Review)
• 1988-1989 Research assistant, Department of Private Law, University of Oslo

Publications:

• National Reporter, UNIDROIT 18th International Congress of Comparative Law: Financial Leasing and its Unification
• Can acquisitions in a holding company trigger the requirement for consent in connection with change of ownership? (Company, Contract, Bankruptcy, Sources of Law: Homage to Mads Henry Andenæs 70 years". Oslo, 2010, pp. 318-330)
• General principles on the abuse of shareholders' rights in Nordic legislation (Company Law and SMEs s. 171-190)
• Book review of Beate Sjåfjell: Towards a Sustainable European Company Law, 2009 (LoR 2009 pp. 637-639)
• Capital drought, emergency issue and coup (PACTA 6/2009 pp. 29-31)
• Book review of Knut Bergo, Stock exchange and securities law, Oslo 2008 (LoR 2009 pp. 506-508)
• The compensation by redemption of shares. How far does the Flesberg judgment reach? (NTS 2008 pp. 62-70)
• Corporate Social Responsibility, The 38th Nordic Lawyer's Congress, Vol. II, Copenhagen 2008, pp. 492-496
• Book review of Karl-Anders Grønland: Companies trade with own shares, Oslo 2007 (TfR 2008 pp. 229-233)
• The Terra case (LoR 2007 no. 10 pp. 561-562)
• Valuation principles in connection with a parent company's squeeze-out of shares in a subsidiary. Report from Norway (European Company Law 4/2007 pp. 177-180)
• New rules on accessorial liability. Report from Norway (European Company Law 3/2007 pp. 130-133)
• Remedies against errors in the chairman's meeting voting record at the opening of the General Meeting (TfF 2007 pp. 8-22 and Håkonarmål 2006 pp. 46-57)
• Share analysis and information liability (TfR 2007 pp. 85-170)
• Statutory Regulation of Executive Pay Stipulation in Public Limited Companies. Report from Norway (European Company Law 1/2007 pp. 33-35)
• Book review of Erik Werlauff, Stock exchange law and capital market law, 3rd edition, Copenhagen 2005 (TfR 2006 pp. 697-702)
• "Shareholder conflicts in small and medium sized companies - Remedies for shareholders' abuse of authority and improper retention of dividends" by Paul Krüger Andersen, Rolf Skog and Nis Jul Clausen (editors): Shareholder Conflicts, Copenhagen 2006, pp. 131-151
• Collective investment possibilities - the relation between securities' fund, investment companies and investment clubs (TfR 2006 pp. 268-340)
• Shareholder's abuse of authority, Oslo 2005, 587 pages. [The book includes a summary in English]
• Book review of Rolf Dotevall, Company co-operation. Concerning unincorporated enterprises, Stockholm 2005 (TfR 2005 pp. 659-661)
• Co-determination and abuse of power in private limited companies (Revisjon og Regnskap 2005 no. 2 pp. 17-20)
• The parity principle in article 42 of the second corporate company law directive, in particular regarding equity issues and distribution (TfR 2004 pp. 580-592)
• Authority abuse in private limited companies and public limited companies (JV 2004 pp. 305-328)
• Shareholder's abuse of authority - a study of the Companies Act /Joint Stock Public Companies Act § 5-21 and unwritten principles regarding misuse (Doctoral theses), Bergen 2004, 417 pages
• Norway Seafood's judgment: A signal of a better minority protection? (NTS 2003 pp. 343-356)
• "Amicable settlement and in-court settlement in contestation proceedings" by Gudrun Holgersen, Kai Krüger and Kåre Lilleholt (editors): Nybrott and Odling, Memorial volume to Nils Nygaard, Bergen 2002, pp. 641-649
• Delivery criterion by vendor's suspending operation right (TfR 1990 pp. 342-389)

Chronicles: 

• Delicious and Daring Danish Company Law (Dagens Næringsliv 21.06.2010)
• Hedge funds with wit (Dagens Næringsliv 20.12.2007)
• Pardon and secrecy (Dagens Næringsliv 03.11.2005) 
• Hedge fund to the people? (Dagens Næringsliv 16.03.2005)

Public reports:

• Regulation on ownership restriction on infrastructure enterprises within the securities field (stock exchange etc.). Report from work group submitted 14.12.2007 (chairman)
• NOU 1993:16 Re-examination of the legislation on bankruptcy (secretary)

Directorships:

• 2010 - Member of the Ethics Committee of the Norwegian Society of Financial Analysts
• 2009 - Deputy chairman, Appeal Board of  Stock Exchanges
• 2008 - Member of the editorial committee of Nordic journal of company law ("Nordisk Tidsskrift for Selskabsret")
• 2008 - Manager of the research group of corporate, stock exchange and securities law
• 2006 - Manager of the control committee in Borea Opportunity II AS
• 2005 - Member of the editorial board of "Jussens Venner" (Norwegian University Law Review)
• Member in Nordic network of company law

Education:

• Doctor of Laws, University of Bergen
• 1994 License to practice law
• 1991 Cand. jur., University of Oslo