University of Oslo. Photo: Mahlum, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Universitetet_i_Oslo_sentrum.jpg)
University of Oslo. Photo: Mahlum, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Universitetet_i_Oslo_sentrum.jpg)
Braaten studied at the University of Oslo, where he received the Candidate in Jurisprudence (cand.jur.) degree in 1985. Founded in 1811 as the Royal Frederick University, the University of Oslo is Norway's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Its law studies led to the cand.jur. degree, the traditional Norwegian qualification in law that has long served as the foundation for legal practice.
He speaks the Scandinavian languages, German, and English.
Braaten is documented as a partner of Bugge, Arentz-Hansen & Rasmussen, a law firm established in Oslo in 1966. Its founders were the barristers Lars Arentz-Hansen, Knut Rasmussen, and Frederik Moltke Bugge, the last of whom had been a partner in an earlier Oslo practice run by his father from 1958.
The firm became one of Norway's most prestigious law firms and later became known as BAHR. Its practice covers corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, securities, tax, and industrial law, reflecting the broad commercial focus of Norwegian business law in the decades after the firm's founding.
