Our 115^th Year Anniversary Event was a great success, raising £5540 for our charities Bede House and Give Opportunity Global. Thank you once again to those who attended, and if you couldn’t make it, we hope to see you soon at one of our forthcoming events.

Videos, pictures, and an overview of attended companies are all accessible via the links below. We have analysed the results of the anniversary survey and published the answers which you can access here. If you would like any further information about our Anniversary Event, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

ATTENDED COMPANIES

PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT

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EVENT SPONSORS

DNB is Norway’s largest financial services group and one of the biggest in the Nordic region in terms of market capitalisation.

DNB

They are a major operator in a number of industries, and a leading global bank for the shipping and seafood sectors as well as a strong player in the energy sector. DNB is also Norway’s largest online bank, with 1.5 million users, 72,000 of which are corporate customers. Their London Branch has been operating as a full commercial bank in the UK since 1971 and celebrated its 50^th anniversary in 2021.

Dorsey’s lawyers and staff combine superb legal knowledge and skills with practical wisdom and a deep understanding of their clients’ businesses and industries.

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The firm is active in nearly all industries but focus on six key areas in which they have great depth and a history of achieving client success. These include banking, development & infrastructure, energy & natural resources, food, beverage & agribusiness, healthcare, and technology. Dorsey provides an integrated, proactive approach to clients’ legal and business needs across the globe.

Flokk combines over 400 years of design expertise and heritage under one roof, providing a wide range of seating, furniture, and accessories.

Flokk

With a shared belief in human-centred and sustainable design, each of their brands has its own unique identity, and its own story to tell. Flokk´s strong position on sustainable design goes back to the early nineties and is founded on strong quality control. ‘Flokk’ is the Norwegian word for ‘flock’, which also synonymous with ‘group’, and implies being part of something greater than yourself. We like to think that our Flokk is greater than the sum of its parts.

Green Business Norway is a professional organisation acting on behalf of enterprises in the Environmental Energy & Technology sector.

Green Business

Their role is to contribute to innovation, co-operation and project development on behalf of their members, and they also have their own accelerator for start-ups that offer innovative solutions for the circular economy. Accelerator companies can take advantage of Green Business’s extensive global network, which includes international centres of research excellence, investors and investment communities, and industrial players in the circular economy.

Marks & Clerk is a prominent, global intellectual property firm which, for over a century, has provided businesses of all shapes and sizes with people whose legal, commercial and technical expertise exactly meets their needs.

Marks & Clerk

The firm’s large team of attorneys, commercial lawyers and IP litigators has helped thousands of businesses enforce and maximise the value of their intellectual property; from providing advice on branding in relation to The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the London 2012 Olympics, to helping develop the IP strategy of household names from the Food & Drink sector. Marks & Clerk also enjoys successful relationships with a number of organisations across the Nordic region.

The Council works together with the Norwegian fisheries and aquaculture industry to develop markets for Norwegian seafood.

Norwegian Seafood Council

Its three key focus areas are Marketing (which includes support for Norwegian seafood exporters and raising awareness and preference for Norwegian seafood); providing Market Insights based on statistics, trade and consumer information and insight; and Communication and Market Risk management.

Founded in 1935, Oury Clark is a professional firm of Chartered Accountants, Lawyers, Solicitors, Consultants, Recruitment and Financial Advisors, offering a wide range of services to both large and small companies as well as individuals.

Oury Clark

Their holistic and pioneering integrated approach to professional services has led to rapid growth in recent years. For over two decades, the firm’s multi-disciplinary team has also assisted overseas companies setting up operations in the UK, with services such as the registration of corporate entities, immigration requirements, local commercial knowledge and a multitude of back-office activities.

Statkraft develops, owns and operates wind, solar, hydro and greener-grid projects; and manages trading and market operations for these projects.

Statkraft

Established in Norway, Statkraft set up a London office in 2006, and their UK generation portfolio includes four onshore wind farms, a hydropower plant, and the operation of over 100 solar projects. The company’s vision is a world that runs entirely on renewable energy, and they have a target to develop 8 GW of wind and solar by 2025.

For 50 years, Stressless® has been designing furniture that takes elements of the inimitable Scandinavian approach to style and marries them with fantastic functionality.

Stressless

Every seat is made to order in Norway, with high environmental and ethical standards, meaning that you can both sit in comfort and enjoy peace of mind. The first Stressless recliner was introduced in 1971 and by 2019 the company had sold 10 million of its seating products and opened its first brand store in London. In 2021 Stressless celebrated its 50^th year in business.

Wastefront is a rubber waste recycling company that converts disused tyres into useful commodities such as liquid hydrocarbons and carbon black, which can be reused for alternative fuel manufacturing or ground rubber production.

Wastefront

The company recently received backing from the City of Sunderland for its plans to build the ‘UK’s greenest tyre recycling plant’ at Port of Sunderland. When completed this will represent the largest ever investment at the North Sea hub. The plant will be operational by 2024, and is expected to create around 100 skilled jobs. Wastefront’s ambition to create a new circular economy for dealing with waste issues seems to be well underway!

Wikborg Rein is a full-service international law firm with over 230 lawyers based in its offices in London, Oslo, Bergen, Singapore and Shanghai.

Wikborg Rein

With roots in Norway and over 30 years in London, the firm provides clients with top tier London advice combined with a no-nonsense Nordic approach. Its lawyers are leaders in the transport, shipping, infrastructure, construction, energy, trade, commodities, and insurance sectors. Wikborg Rein has unique experience with projects, finance, commercial contracts, alternative dispute resolution, commercial litigation, fraud, and asset recovery, and has an in-depth understanding of the commercial dynamics driving the industries it works with.

EVENT SPONSORS

DNB is Norway’s largest financial services group and one of the biggest in the Nordic region in terms of market capitalisation.

DNB

They are a major operator in a number of industries, and a leading global bank for the shipping and seafood sectors as well as a strong player in the energy sector. DNB is also Norway’s largest online bank, with 1.5 million users, 72,000 of which are corporate customers. Their London Branch has been operating as a full commercial bank in the UK since 1971 and celebrated its 50^th anniversary in 2021.

Dorsey’s lawyers and staff combine superb legal knowledge and skills with practical wisdom and a deep understanding of their clients’ businesses and industries.