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Sarah Haugvad Andresen

Senior Lawyer|Oslo

Sarah Haugvad Andresen

Sarah Haugvad Andresen is a part of Arntzen Grette’s dispute resolution and insurance team. She works with dispute resolution, insurance, and compliance (ESG). Her broad expertise in these areas makes her well suited to assist on complex and interdisciplinary projects.

Sarah assists both Norwegian and international clients with various forms of dispute resolution. She has been involved in several extensive and complex disputes in the fields of insurance law, contract law, corporate law, tort law, and post-M&A disputes. Within insurance, she provides support in assessing coverage issues and handling disputes related to directors’ and officers’ liability insurance (D&O), warranty & indemnity insurance (W&I), crime insurance, and project insurance (Contractors All Risk).

Sarah has extensive and in-depth experience in investigations, crisis management, and compliance. She has broad expertise in managing both internal and external risks and has participated in a number of complex investigations related to financial regulatory matters, competition law, and breaches of internal policies.

She possesses particularly strong knowledge of ESG-related regulations, including the Transparency Act, the EU Taxonomy, SFDR, CSRD, EUDR, packaging requirements, as well as rules on greenwashing and anti-corruption. This is a rapidly developing area, and Sarah continuously expands her expertise and monitors new regulatory developments. This ensures that our compliance team remains at the forefront in providing clients with strategic and practical guidance to adapt to the EU’s increasingly comprehensive regulatory framework.

Sarah Haugvad Andresen is very impressive in her work with eye to all the details.

Client, Legal 500, 2024

News

8 October 2025

The new EU Pay Transparency Directive – is your business ready?

The gender pay gap in the EU remains at around 13–14%, with little progress over the past decade. In Norway, the gap is approximately 12%, and the differences become even more pronounced when looking at overall income and pension accrual. According to the EU, a large reason for this persistence is the lack of pay transparency: without insight into how salaries are determined, employees cannot easily detect or challenge unfair differences.