Minneapolis firm Dorsey & Whitney has hired the former group legal director and senior vice president of Norwegian construction group Kvaerner to bolster its Scandinavian expertise.

Jan Greve moves from Kvaerner, where he led the legal team and had worked for 13 years, prior to which he was in-house counsel at Norsk Hydro in Norway and Germany. Greve, who joins the US firm as counsel, will be based in Dorseys London office.