Halfdan Mellbye

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Halfdan Mellbye is head of the firm’s aquaculture department. He is a specialist on the administrative regulation of fisheries and fish farming with thirty years of experience.

Mellbye is also highly specialised in administrative law, public procurement, dispute resolution and litigation.

He advises municipalities, hospitals and the private business sector on several fields within administrative law such as the environmental field (including waste-handling), education, health and on the area of public procurement. He also has an especially broad experience within different areas of administrative procedure, including topics such as disqualification, duty of secrecy, access to information, and administrative sanctions.

Mellbye has been ranked among the foremost experts on fisheries law in the annual ranking of attorneys in the Norwegian business newspaper, Finansavisen. 

He was formerly an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bergen.

He is an attorney admitted to the Supreme Court. He is also an experienced lecturer.

Halfdan Mellbye has more than detailed knowledge about laws connected to fish farming, and he sees elements that other lawyers don’t see.

- Client, Legal500, 2022

Expertise areas

2009–

SANDS Advokatfirma DA

Partner
2004–2008

Advokatfirma DLA Piper Norway DA

Partner
2003

Lindh Stabell Horten

Partner
1999–2002

Secher/Lindh Stabell Horten

Associate
1995–1998

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt

Senior Associate
1986–1995

University of Bergen, Faculty of Law

Scientific assistant
1988

University of Bergen

Cand. jur.
2024

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