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Erlend-Aarli
Managing Associate

Erlend Aarli

Languages
  • Norwegian
  • English
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Erlend Aarli is affiliated with CMS Kluge’s IP, technology & EEA Department, and assists clients with advice and dispute resolution within a range of different fields in commercial law. Erlend works primarily with Intellectual Property Law, contract law and company law. Within Intellectual Property law, Erlend provides assistance in both trademark, patent and copyright disputes, as well as matters under the Norwegian Marketing Act.

Aarli holds a Master of Law degree from the University of Bergen, where he wrote his master thesis on Trademark Law. Aarli has also studied Chinese Law at the Renmin University of China in Beijing, and Environmental Law at Universidade de Lisboa in Lisbon.

Relevant experience

  • 2026 - Managing Associate, CMS Kluge Advokatfirma AS
  • 2022 - 2025 Senior Associate, CMS Kluge Advokatfirma AS
  • 2020 - 2022 Associate, Kluge Advokatfirma AS
  • 2020 Intern, Office of the Attorney General of Norway
  • 2019 Scholarship holder, Kluge Advokatfirma AS
  • 2019 Trainee, SANDS Advokatfirma DA
  • 2019 Trainee, Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS
  • 2018 Trainee, Kluge Advokatfirma AS
  • 2018 Trainee, Wikborg Rein & Co
  • 2017 - 2018 Teaching assistant, University of Bergen

Awards & Rankings

Erlend Aarli is recommended within Intellectual Property by Legal 500.

Education

  • 2015 - 2020 Master of Law, University of Bergen
  • 2020 Law studies, Universidade de Lisboa
  • 2018 Chinese Law Summer Program, Renmin University of China

Insights by Erlend

IP Insights webinar series 2025

27 Nov 2025
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