Lawyers in Norway

Frode Martin Toftevåg

Partner. Toftevåg has comprehensive experience with national and international labour law, dispute resolution and pensions. Toftevåg is legal counsel to several Norwegian and international companies, employers’ associations and public sector institutions. He has previously worked in the employment law department of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO) and has considerable experience as an advisor to unionized companies. Toftevåg is co-author to one of the legal commentaries on the Norwegian Labour Disputes Act (“Arbeidstvistloven”).

Arntzen Grette

Frode Olsen

Specialises in mergers and acquisitions, corporate law as well as domestic and international tax. In addition to advising on and negotiating agreements and other transaction related documentation, he has a long experience with transaction tax advice, especially where a human capital element is prevalent. He especially deals with TMT and human capital intensive businesses such as transactions involving consulting firms. In addition to his qualification as a lawyer, Olsen also possesses an MBA from Bocconi.

CMS Kluge

Gard A. Skogstrøm

AGP Advokater

Gaute Gjelsten

Gaute Gjelsten has more than 25 years of experience specialising in international shipping and offshore law, including marine and energy, insurance law. Gjelsten has handled significant claims arising out of marine and offshore casualties, including i.a. jurisdiction, choice of laws, limitation and limitation fund proceedings. He represents the private sector against the Norwegian State in relation to major marine recourse actions. Gjelsten for Nordic and international insurers concerning H&M, War, LOH, cargo, charterers' liability, general liability and P&I. Gjelsten has experience acting on complex offshore and onshore claims concerning CAR and operational policies, reinsurance and coverage disputes in the energy sector. He has extensive litigation experience before the Norwegian courts and in arbitration proceedings, and is admitted to the Norwegian Supreme Court. In June 2025, Gjelsten was appointed by the Norwegian Government to head a Law Committee with the mandate to review existing maritime legislation and propose amendments reflecting developments in the industry, including digitalisation, green transition, and evolving safety standards. Gaute is recognised as a market leading Norwegian offshore and shipping lawyer and is top ranked in Legal 500 ("Recommended Individual") and Chambers and Partners (ranked in Band 1).

Gjelsten Herlofsen Advokatfirma AS

Gaute Krokann

Partner Gaute Krokann is head of Haavind’s labour, employment and corporate governance practice team. With more than 20 years of experience, Krokann is widely recognised as one of the most capable employment law practitioners in Norway. His previous work includes being Head of the section for legal proceedings at the large employer organisation Virke, and a deputy judge at the district court level. Advisor to many of the market’s most significant clients, Krokann has extensive experience in restructuring and downsizing processes, collective labour, supervision of employees and individual employment protection matters, transfer of undertaking and dispute resolution. In recent years, he has established himself as one of the leading counsels for labour and employment law in the public sector and state-owned companies, handling several of the most important and complex disputes of recent years and having litigated several cases in the Labour Court. Krokann is a well-respected thought leader and frequently holds lectures and seminars in management and various employment law issues. He also has an international presence through being Co-Chair of Top Ranked Elite Law Network Interlaw’s Special Business Team for Employment and Labour law.

Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS

Geir Gustavsson

Partner

BAHR

Geir Ove Røberg

Geir Ove is assisting international, Nordic and Norwegian ship owners and banks with transactions within financing, sale and purchase of entities and assets. He has been leading several international contractual negotiations, and has assisted in large projects related to shipping/financing.

Wikborg Rein

Geir Sand

Partner

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS

Geir Sviggum

Geir is our Managing Partner. He headed the firm's Shanghai office from 2008 to 2013 and was Managing Partner International with overall responsibility for Wikborg Rein's international practice from 2012 to 2016. Geir has on a number of occasions, as late as 2022, been named International Lawyer of the Year in the Norwegian Financial Daily's annual lawyers survey. Legal 500 points to Geir as a Leading Individual within the Regulatory, Compliance and Investigations category, describing him as "the rock that you need in a crisis". Geir is also ranked Band 1 by Chambers Europe within the Compliance category. Geir's specialities are threefold: - Compliance with a particular focus on anti-bribery and crisis management, hereunder criminal law consequences and civil disputes triggered by potential misconduct. Geir's experience spans from a role as public defender in Norwegian courts to crisis management on behalf of listed Norwegian companies following suspected misconduct, preventive advisory work for Norwegian companies and public authorities in their anti-bribery work and lecturing on anti-bribery legislation at universities in several countries; - Dispute resolution focusing on larger disputes of international nature. Geir has significant experience from Norwegian courts as well as arbitration- and court processes in several countries; - Advisory work to medium-sized and large Norwegian industry- and technology enterprises in their international exposure, hereunder regulatory issues, sales contracts, distribution contracts, production contracts, agent contracts and risk preventive measures. Geir further has significant experience as legal advisor to Norwegian authorities with regard to Norway's various international exposure. During Geir’s time in China he was highlighted in local and regional rankings as among China’s "15 Rising Stars" in the legal profession for "impressive achievements" and among the 100 most influential lawyers in Asia. Geir is frequently used as speaker at universities, conferences and in other fora.

Wikborg Rein

Geir-Arne Heiestad Borgestrand

Geir-Arne Heiestad Borgestrand specializes in dispute resolution and general contract law with a particular focus on fabrication and supply contracts. Geir-Arne has in recent years headed Glittertind’s Department of Energy and Industry, where he has mainly worked with dispute resolution and been a litigator in several major disputes within both construction and subsea fabrication contracts. He has previously worked as Head of Legal for Aker Solutions ASA’s business sectors Engineering and Subsea. Prior to that, he worked on civil dispute resolution within construction and finance at the law firm BA-HR DA. Geir-Arne has extensive international experience within contract drafting, project support and dispute resolution related to major construction contracts. He has also worked with the establishment and follow-up of joint ventures in other countries and has cooperated extensively with international law firms in many regions. Geir-Arne has organised many courses, both in Norway and internationally, within general contract law, compliance/business ethics, and project follow-up of dispute resolution.

Advokatfirmaet Glittertind AS

Georg Abusdal Engebretsen

Partner Georg Abusdal Engebretsen specialises in assisting Norwegian and international enterprises and public institutions in compliance and investigations. He has extensive experience and expert knowledge in a wide range of compliance law matters in a number of business sectors , including technology, industry and shipping. Mr. Engebretsen is also an experienced litigator and has, among other things, litigated cases concerning infringement penalties under the Norwegian Competition Act. He is often used as a lecturer both in Norway and abroad. He has for many years been a member of the compliance committee of the Center for Continuing Legal Education.

Wiersholm

Gjermund Mathisen

Partner

Kvale Advokatfirma DA

Gjertrud H. Behringer

Attorney-at-law/Partner Gjertrud H. Behringer has been working in the Global Mobility Service team at KPMG since 1999. She assists several multinational companies in managing their international expatriate population. She provides a wide range of services and her main areas are international and national personal tax, social security planning and assignment policy development. She has also extensive experience in assisting foreign companies with fulfilling their employer's obligations towards the Norwegian authorities. Gjertrud also has experience with local Norwegian tax and social security legislation and assists Norwegian employers and employees with various issues, e.g. the tax handling of gifts, social arrangements, company travels, benefits-in-kind, tax returns, social security memberships etc. She has assisted many Norwegian employers with a salary review. She is member of the team, which organizes and gives lectures on client conferences as well as internal seminars.

KPMG Law Advokatfirma AS, Norway

Goud Fjellheim

Partner Goud Fjellheim specialises in litigation, public procurement and contractual law and is well-known for his unique expertise in these areas. He has vast experience from the office of the Attorney General for Civil Affairs and has been admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court since 2007. He counts among his clients many of Norway’s state entities, including the Government, Tax Authority and the Complaints Board. To date, Partner Fjellheim has litigated more than 220 cases in a wide variety of legal areas, particularly within the fields of public procurement, contracts and tax. He has argued 12 cases before the Norwegian Supreme Court and 2 cases before the EFTA-court. He has extensive experience from advising on all stages of a procurement process, including the procedure for preliminary injunction and damages for positive and negative contractual interest. He also has significant experience advising on contractual issues and he litigates contract disputes and tax matters before all instances of the courts of law. Among recent highlights, he is representing the Norwegian Government in an IT-contract dispute which is by far the biggest such dispute brought before the Norwegian courts to date, with a total disputed amount of NOK 510 million.

Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS

Grethe Gulhaug

Construction law specialist, as well as contract law and dispute resolution.

CMS Kluge

Gro Amdal

Partner. Amdal has more than 26 years of experience within procurement law and is among Norway’s leading experts within this field. Amdal provides advice to clients in all stages of the procurement process and has in-depth knowledge of the Norwegian rules and regulations regarding public procurement, as well as the EU Directives on public procurement. She also has extensive experience within construction law. By holding several directorships and key positions, Amdal has for a number of years contributed to the legal development within procurement law. The Norwegian Government appointed Amdal member of the Norwegian Complaints Board for Public Procurement for 8 consecutive years (2011-2019). She was also member of the Commission appointed by the Norwegian Government to propose new national rules on public procurement.

Arntzen Grette

Gry Bratvold

Partner

Kvale Advokatfirma DA

Gry Hvidsten

Gry is a leading lawyer within data protection and digitalization. She is the Head of the firm's Data Protection practice. Her practice also includes assisting clients within IT-law/information security, e- privacy law and marketing law. Gry also works with large and complex projects in the intersection between data protection and legislation concerning the use of personal data within specific sectors such as finance and health. Gry holds a unique combination of in-depth professional knowledge and a commercial mindset. She has 20 years of experience working as a data protection specialist in the Legislation Department in the Ministry of Justice, in Norway’s largest company Equinor and as a long-standing business lawyer. She advises leading corporations within a variety of sectors, including large group companies, and public authorities on all aspects related to data protection compliance, including the procurement, implementation and development of new technology and new products and services, including necessary agreement to cover the sharing and transfer of personal data. Over the last years her focus has expanded to include larger and more complex projects related to digital business development and the use of new technologies. Gry has assisted several international corporations with the implementation of BCR (Binding Corporate Rules). She also assists clients on a regular basis in relation to handling security incidents and with handling technology transactions. She often works in close cooperation with other Wikborg Rein teams such as Commercial property, Financial regulatory, Risk and crisis management and with our firm’s office in Shanghai. With a passion for the intersection between technology, law and business development, Gry takes a particular interest in understanding the client's business and in working closely with clients to find effective and business-oriented solutions. She is a lecturer at Norwegian universities and a regular speaker at industry events. Gry is a member of the board of The Norwegian Association for Computers and Law (NFJE). She is also responsible for the Norwegian chapter in the International Comparative Legal Guide (ICLG) on Data Protection 2021. Gry received appreciation as Next Generation Partner in the latest Legal 500 ranking.

Wikborg Rein

Gunhild Dugstad

Partner Gunhild Dugstad's practice includes mergers and acquisitions, company law and the capital markets. Dugstad has extensive experience as a project manager in major and complicated transactions, particularly in private equity and the manufacturing industries.

Wiersholm

Gunnar Martinsen

A significant part of Mr Martinsen's work is related to the conditions of the power industry and energy law related litigation. He is ranked as a leading lawyer within his field in national and international rankings. He advises Norwegian and foreign power companies matters concerning energy, water resources and licensing. Mr Martinsen has assisted a number of power companies in connection with acquisitions, disposals, placements, mergers and various restructurings.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Gunnar Meyer

Gunnar specialises within intellectual property law, with a particular focus on patent, trademark and trade secrets litigation. He has in-depth knowledge within life sciences, including pharmaceuticals, and related regulatory issues. Gunnar has extensive litigation experience before all courts, including the Supreme Court. He has argued a substantial number of cases within patent and trademark law. He regularly represents businesses within the pharmaceutical industry, oil and gas, renewables, agriculture and branded consumer goods. Gunnar is recognised by Chambers and Partners as 'Senior statesperson' in the category Intellectual Property, and by Legal 500 within 'Hall of Fame' in the category Intellectual Property. He is also ranked as Patent Star and Trademark Star by Managing Intellectual Property, and in the top category in Patent Litigation by IAM Patent 1000. "He is very dedicated and service-oriented. He always works with integrity and manages to have client satisfaction firmly at the centre of his focus." Chambers Europe 2023 "Gunnar Meyer is ‘one of Norway’s most experienced patent litigators‘." The Legal 500 2023

Wikborg Rein

Gunnar Stake-Larsen

Gunnar Stake-Larsen has long and extensive experience in guiding companies within trade, industry, oil and gas, insurance, and energy law. Stake-Larsen was admitted to the Norwegian Supreme Court in 1988. He is an authorized legal mediator/arbitrator (the Norwegian Bar Association) and authorized arbitrator (the Danish Bar and Law Society).

Kvale Advokatfirma DA

Gunnar Sørlie

Attorney / Of Counsel

BAHR

Guy Leonard

Partner

SANDS