Erling Grimstad

Erling is a lawyer and the CEO at Advokatfirmaet Erling Grimstad. He has solid experience in areas such as the prevention and detection of financial crime and other fraud, whistleblowing, investigation, compliance, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, privacy and business's human rights responsibility.

Erling is regarded as one of the country's leading advisers in his areas of expertise. He has been involved in work to protect businesses against financial crime in various ways. He has been central to the establishment and development of investigation as a separate professional field in Norway. Erling was among the first to start a whistleblowing service and helped businesses develop good routines, processes and systems for handling whistleblowing cases. He has been responsible for the investigation of more than a thousand whistleblowing cases, as an advisor for whistleblowers, the person who was notified or as an investigator for the business that received the notification. 

In his career, Erling has held roles as leader and deputy leader in Økokrim, senior public prosecutor in Økokrim and before that as a police investigator. Erling also has experience from roles as an investigator at the UN and the Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and participated as a member of one of the investigation commissions appointed by the Storting. Erling has experience from a number of larger trial assignments in cases dealing with economic crime. He has also been head of the investigation unit in two of the largest international auditing and consulting companies. 

Erling has a degree in law from the University of Oslo, and police education from the Police School and has a master's in management from BI.

You can hear Erling together with his colleagues and guests in our podcast: Økrimpodden →. The law firm has also developed The AML App→, training program in anti-money laundering for obliged entities under the Money Laundering Act. Erling is responsible for the academic content. 

Throughout the year, Erling holds a number of courses where he shares his experience and knowledge and enables organizations to reduce the risk of financial crime and breaches of regulations. Erling is also the author of the book Investigation - in case of suspicion of corruption and other forms of financial crime in employment (Gyldendal 2014).