Katrine Lillerud

Lead Lawyer
Katrine Lillerud
Location
Oslo
Language
English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian

Katrine Lillerud works with EEA regulatory issues, state aid and competition law. She frequently assists on various EEA regulatory issues, state aid and competition law aspects, in particular in relation to transactions, assessment of cooperation between undertakings, and distribution agreements; both on a national and international basis.

She has assisted DLA Piper's offices in Brussel and London in international completion law matters and has experience from large telecom transactions in the Nordics and Asia. 

Katrine has work experience from the EFTA Surveillance Authority and EFTA Secretariate and an in-depth understand of the EEA Agreement. Katrine defended her Ph.D. at the European University Institute in June 2020 on the implementation of the State aid reform 2014 in the EEA.

Credentials
Education
European University Institute, Florence, Italy, Ph.D., defence
2020
European University Institute, Florence, Italy, LL.M. in Comparative, European and International Laws
2016
University of Saarland, LL.M. in European Laws and Integration
2010
University of Oslo, Master of Law
2009
Memberships

Member of The Norwegian Bar Association

Experience
Prior experience
Lead Lawyer, DLA Piper Norway
2022 -
Attorney-at-law, Telenor ASA, Corporate M&A Team (Secondment)
2020 - 2022
Lead Lawyer, DLA Piper Norway
2019 - 2020
Researcher, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
2015 - 2019
Lawyer and in-house lawyer seconded to Pharmaq AS 20%, DLA Piper Norway
2014 - 2015
Young Professional trainee, EFTA Surveillance Authority Competition & State Aid Directorate
2013 - 2014
Lawyer, DLA Piper Norway
2012 - 2013
Associate, DLA Piper Norway
2010 - 2012
Legal Trainee, EFTA Secretariat
2010 - 2010
Publications

Soft Law and Their Symbiotic Relationship with the Block Exemptions? A Nordic Perspective, European State aid Law Quarterly, 2021

Does a ‘Copy-Paste’ of the Antitrust Toolbox for Information Collection Work When Regulating States, and Not Undertakings? European State aid Law Quarterly, 2020

The Pharma legal Handbook Norway (co-author), Pharma Boardroom, 2020

The National Transparency Registers in Action, European State aid Law Quarterly, 2019