Mira Levánd Bergsland is known for her expertise in insolvency and bankruptcy law.

Mira has worked with restructuring, insolvency, and bankruptcy law since 2012, as a lawyer for banks, financial institutions, private and listed companies, and as a trustee. She has extensive experience with restructuring and refinancing of debt, reorganization of company structures, securing creditor interests, mortgage-related issues, and drafting of security documentation (loan agreements, mortgage agreements, etc.). She also regularly works with M&A transactions and corporate law issues.

Mira has extensive experience from complex and comprehensive restructuring of companies in the oil/shipping sector, and from the administration of some of Norway's largest bankruptcy estates. Since 2022, she has been appointed as trustee in bankruptcy for Oslo District Court.

Mira also assists real estate companies, property developers, and other businesses with property law issues and transactions, including the drafting of lease agreements (residential and commercial leases), purchase contracts and offers, due diligence reviews, ground lease law, tenancy law and planning law, evictions, and sectioning. Mira also has experience with the so-called “Cooperative housing model", i.e. the conversion of rental buildings into cooperative housing.

Mira is the author of the legal commentary to the Wage Guarantee Act published by Universitetsforlaget (Act No. 61 of 14 December 1973 on state guarantee for salary claims in the event of bankruptcy, etc.), as well as the notes to the same act on www.lovdata.no. As of 1 January 2025, Mira has been appointed as member of the Norwegian Bar Association's law committee for bankruptcy, composition, law

Awards and rankings

Mira is ranked in first place in the "up and coming" category for Restructuring and Bankruptcy Law in Finansavisen's lawyer survey in 2023, up from third place in 2022. She is also highlighted in Legal 500 as a "key lawyer" for several consecutive years, where clients report that

"Mira Bergsland has excellent legal skills, is nice to work with and is always focused on finding the best solution" (2022) and that she is "highly skilled lawyer[-s] with a very good understanding of commercial aspects" (2023).

Education

2015Practising certificate
2012Master of Laws, University of Bergen
2011Special subjects, Faculty of Law, University of Glasgow

Work experience

2024Partner, Bull
2023Specialist Counsel, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2019–2023Senior Lawyer, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2015External examiner, University of Bergen
2015Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
2014–2015Deputy Judge, Oslo County Court
2012–2014Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo

Publications and talks

2014Bidragsyter til boken 100 næringsiendomstips, Wikborg Rein
2021Forfatter av notene til Lønnsgarantiloven (lov 14. desember 1973 nr. 61 om statsgaranti for lønnskrav ved konkurs m.v.), som utgis av Karnov Group Norway på www.lovdata.no

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