Lawyers in Norway

Espen Tøndel

Partner

Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig

Espen Werring

Espen is a trusted adviser to organizations developing and implementing their mission-critical digitization strategies. He typically advice the largest organizations in the private sector with their sourcing of services within development, transformation, maintenance and operation of business-critical IT and business processes. He is ranked as one of Norway's leading lawyers within this field in national and international directories.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Eva Hagen

Eva Hagen is an experienced attorney and specialist within commercial real estate . She advises clients on commercial property development matters both assessing real estate potential and developing property development strategies. Eva has broad experience not only as a property owner, but also from a property manager as well as developer of urban development projects side. She has extensive experience in managing property development projects in transformation areas from port areas to urban development areas, including the design and settlement of contracts, facilitation for urban development through architectural competitions and parallel assignments, regulatory processes and sales. Furthermore, she has experience from partner processes for development, as well as experience as a developer for development projects. Eva has extensive experience in negotiating, as well as operating in the interface between public and private players in real estate and urban development. She has extensive board experience and is often used as a speaker.

Ræder Bing

Eva Jarbekk

Partner

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS

Even Bratsberg

Partner. Mr Even Bratsberg has twenty years of experience as lawyer in Thommessen and corporate finance director in SEB Enskilda and Pangea Property Partners. Clients praise his legal knowledge and commercial awareness.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Eyvind Sandvik

Partner. Sandvik assists clients primarily with matters relating to tax law, including ordinary corporation tax, international tax law, VAT and transactions. He has worked in the field of Norwegian and international tax law for more than 15 years. Much of his work involves advising on transaction law and restructuring, as well as on the choice of transaction structure, financing and earn-out models. He has a broad network of international lawyers and tax advisors, and regularly assists Norwegian enterprises wishing to expand into other countries, either through the establishment of new operations or transactions. He has extensive tax advisory experience relating to the establishment of executive incentive schemes, reinvestments and buy-out transactions. In addition to tax matters, he is often asked to advise on tax and accounting law questions relating to transactions and restructuring processes. Sandvik’s extensive tax law experience makes him a sought-after strategic advisor for his clients. He is particularly appreciated for his expertise in the area of international tax planning. Sandvik serves on the Norwegian Bar Association’s tax law committee, and lectures regularly on tax-related topics.

Arntzen Grette

Fanny Lunde

Attorney at law • Tort law • Insurance law • Contract and agreement law • Motor liability • Family and inheritance law • Litigation and dispute resolution

Advokatfirma Kogstad Lunde & Co

Faraz Ahmed Ali

Managing Associate Faraz has extensive experience in Norwegian and international transaction processes, regularly assisting both lenders and borrowers in complex refinancing and restructuring processes. He also possesses significant expertise in contract law and has a strong track record in handling intricate transactions within the aviation and offshore industries. He is recognised in the market as one of the greatest talents working within financial restructuring.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Felix Reimers

Felix Reimers has more than 25 years of experience within the field of Intellectual Property (IP), in particular designs, trademarks and patents. His work within these special fields relates to strategic counselling and lititgation. He also works with related areas such as marketing, regulatory, unfair competition, know-how and tradesecrets and inventions made by employees. He has extensive experience in litigation and he is admitted to the Supreme Court.

Advokatfirmaet Glittertind AS

Filip Truyen

Filip is among Norway's leading experts on company law. He is also a Professor, Doctor of Laws at the University of Bergen and at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). He has published scientific work with focus on shareholder conflicts, directors' liability, corporate governance, compulsory acquisition, public ownership and enterprise valuation. He has broad experience as an Appellate Court Judge and as an arbitrator. Moreover, Filip is frequently engaged in the sale and reorganising of businesses, especially where the choice of transaction model is an important premise. He often acts as counsellor in ownership disputes, including challenges that come with generational changes. Filip was Deputy Chairman at the Appeal Board of Stock Exchanges in Norway in the period 2009-2012. Since 2015 he has served as Chairman of the Norwegian Government's Legislative Committee on Securities. The Committee has delivered nine public reports on securities law.

Wikborg Rein

Finn Backer-Grøndahl

Partner. Mr Finn Backer-Grøndahl works with both national and international tax law matters. He works, inter alia, on tax issues related to national and international transactions and restructurings. Mr Backer-Grøndahl heads the firm's practice area Tax and Duties.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Finn Bjørnstad

Most of Finn's clients are Norwegian and foreign banks and shipowners, and his main areas of practice are: issues relating to newbuildings/conversion projects for ships, financing and purchase/sale/affreightment of ships and offshore vessels, project finance for different assets in Norway and abroad, as well as towards the private equity market – both for investors and brokers – in connection with establishing projects in Norway and abroad. Bjørnstad holds several board positions. Finn is recommended by Chambers and Partners as "Leaders in their field" in the categories Energy, Oil & Gas and Shipping Finance.

Wikborg Rein

Finn Magne Prydz

Finn Magne Prydz is a partner and works with real estate and construction law. Finn Magne has comprehensive expertise in contract and construction law, as well as litigation. He has extensive experience in legal advice and dispute resolution before ordinary courts and courts of arbitration. He acts as permanent lawyer for a number of small and medium-sized contractor and supplier businesses, and also has experience in assisting large national and international players in major construction projects. Examples include infrastructure projects, complex commercial buildings and power development projects. Finn Magne also has significant experience from a wide range of the department’s other practice areas, including real estate sales, planning and building law, expropriation and judicial valuation.

Advokatfirmaet Hjort

Fred Arthur Andersen

Fred Arthur Andersen is part of the corporate team. He works primarily with mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, financing and contract law and negotiations. Andersen also regularly work with employment law and dispute resolution. Andersen has extensive experience from the financial sector, and has previously worked as General Counsel of SpareBank 1 Gruppen (a leading Norwegian bank and insurance group) and as a lawyer in DNB. Andersen has, in addition to his legal education, an Executive MBA from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.

Advokatfirmaet CLP DA

Frederik Nordby

Frederik Nordby works primarily with public procurement law, state aid law and other EU/EEA law. Within public procurement, Nordby assists both public entities and private operators in procurement processes. He has particular experience with procurement of complex ICT systems, and he therefore has good knowledge of ICT contracts as well. He also has broad experience from litigation procedures, both before the courts as well as before the Norwegian Complaints Board for Public Procurement. Nordby also has broad experience within state aid law, where he primarily advises public entities on state aid law, and assists in notification procedures before the EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA). Nordby har previously worked in ESA's competition and state aid directorate, and as a research assistant at the Centre for European Law at the University of Oslo.

CMS Kluge

Fredrik Aadahl

Expertise in dispute resolution and counselling within public procurement and contract law

CMS Kluge

Fredrik Ellingsen

Partner, Lawyer

Selmer

Fredrik Finsås

DLA Piper

Fredrik Gisholt

Fredrik is mainly employed with labour law and contract law, including litigation for Norwegian courts and arbitration.

Wikborg Rein

Fredrik Klebo-Espe

DLA Piper

Fredrik Lykke

DLA Piper

Frida Stene-Slotte

Partner Frida has extensive experience within financing, restructuring and debt capital market transactions. She advises lenders and borrowers both locally and internationally on bilateral, syndicated and structured financing transactions and bond issues.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Frithjof Herlofsen

Frithjof Herlofsen is a leading specialist in arbitration and litigation, focusing on shipping, offshore and marine insurance disputes. Frithjof has more than 25 years of experience specialising in all aspects of shipping and transport law, including salvage, GA settlements, cargo claims, charter party disputes, bills of lading, MOAs, shipbuilding and repair contracts, marine insurance (cover disputes, P&I, FDD, H&M, cargo insurance etc), marine incidents, arrest, forced use and sales as well as tort and contract disputes. Frithjof is admitted to the Norwegian Supreme Court and heads the Norwegian Bar Association's Committee on Insurance Law. Herlofsen has argued more than 100 cases in arbitrations and before the Norwegian courts, including seven cases before the Norwegian Supreme Court. Herlofsen is also frequently appointed as arbitrator, both in ad hoc arbitrations as well as under the NOMA Procedural Rules.

Gjelsten Herlofsen Advokatfirma AS

Frode A. Innjord

Frode A. Innjord is a partner in our Real Estate and Construction law practice area. Innjord provides both the private and public sectors with advice and dispute resolution within the field of real estate law. His professional experience includes assisting the largest public and private real estate developers in cases related to hydropower development, ground pollution, property disputes, expropriation and land regulation. His professional portfolio also includes advising the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment for a number of years in matters related to compensation settlements after the establishment of nature conservation areas. Innjord is the editor of Gyldendals legal commentary on the Planning and Building Act. He has also written several articles on various topics related to real estate law, and serves as a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Property law. Innjord has extensive experience with litigation and commercial dispute resolution. He has been admitted to the Norwegian Supreme Court since 1994, and throughout the years has litigated a number of cases that raised issues on private and public matters in the ordinary courts, as well as the Courts of arbitration. The nature of the cases rang in a broad spectrum, from cooperation agreements on the shelf, via cases concerning franchise agreements, securities management and property taxes, to international indigenous rights. Innjord is a highly acclaimed lawyer within dispute resolution in national and international lawyer rankings. In addition to his own litigation activities, Innjord has also served as an arbitrator in a number of commercial disputes. In several of the cases, he has been appointed as the head of the arbitral tribunal, and he has also acted as the sole arbitrator.

Advokatfirmaet Hjort