Lawyers in Norway

Harald Hellebust

Partner Harald Hellebust works mainly with transactions, including purchase and sale of businesses for buy-out funds and industrial players. His main areas of expertise are company law and contract law. Hellebust was admitted to the Supreme Court in 2008.

Wiersholm

Harald K. Selte

Specialist Partner

BAHR

Harald Sommernes

Partner

Ro Sommernes Advokatfirma AS

Harald Strømstad

Harald is a seasoned lawyer whose dispute resolution and litigation experience spans 25 years. He has extensive litigation experience before the ordinary courts and the court of arbitration. This has included cases for preliminary injunction and arrest and cases before The Arbitration Institute of The Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, respectively. Harald has assisted in complex commercial disputes within a wide range of practice areas and with factual scenarios that were highly varied. His core competence is to communicate complicated facts in a simplified and logical manner to the court and to organise and direct the processes in the most efficient and beneficial manner for the case. Harald is also passionate about lawyers' social responsibility. Throughout his career, his commitment to pro bono work has been strong. For example, he has headed up and organised free legal aid and training for Norwegian and international charities. Harald has also been a member of the Oslo Red Cross control committee for several years.

Advokatfirmaet Bull AS

Hedda Baumann Heier

Senior Lawyer

Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig

Hedda Leikvang

Managing Associate Hedda works within banking and financing and debt capital markets, where she advises domestic and international corporations, sponsors, lenders, and issuers on various financing transactions and structures within the bank and bond markets, with a particular focus on acquisition financing. She also has experience working with large corporate restructurings, principally within the oil, gas and offshore industries. She is also qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales and a licensed attorney in New York and the District of Columbia (inactive).

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Heddy Ludvigsen

Heddy Ludvigsen is partner and specializes in public procurement law. She assists contractors and private suppliers during all phases of the procurement process, including the complaint processing procedures. Her experience covers a broad spectrum of practice areas, such as construction, the technology sector, health and concession contracts. Additionally, Heddy has extensive experience within state aid, competition law and general EU/EEA law. Her combined expertise and experience within all aspects of EU/EEA law allows her to adapt her advice to our clients’ various needs and challenges. By using this insight, she provides strategic and practical advice that creates value for our clients.

Advokatfirmaet Hjort

Hedvig Moe

Partner Hedvig began her legal career at Thommessen in 2000 and returned to the firm in May 2023. In the intervening years, she held key positions at the National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime, where she primarily focused on financial crime and held the position as acting director. Hedvig has also held leadership roles in the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST), including Deputy Director, where she developed knowledge on topics such as geopolitics, national security, and foreign intelligence. This has also provided her with valuable experience in collaborating with the defense sector. Through these and several other public sector positions, she has gained a deep understanding of central and local administration, political processes, and legislative work. At Thommessen, she leads the firm's National Security Advisory, where she provides legal and strategic advice across all areas relevant to national security. This includes the Security Act, personnel security, foreign direct investment (FDI), and defense procurements. Hedvig is also responsible for the firm's advisory on compliance, export control, and sanctions legislation. Hedvig has substantial experience with crisis planning and management, as well as public and media relations.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Hege Birkeland Ersdal

Partner

SANDS

Hege Dahl

AGP Advokater

Hege Grønsberg Abrahamsen

Hege Grønsberg Abrahamsen practises in the area of commercial law, with a focus on employment law and civil procedure. She has extensive experience in assisting employers, including with recruitment, transfers of undertakings, restructurings and redundancies.

Arntzen Grette

Heidi Ann Vestvik-Bruknapp

Heidi Ann is specialised in fisheries and aquaculture and has special experience in assisting fishing companies and aquaculture companies with complex regulatory issues. The advice to fisheries companies especially includes application processes in relation to succession of generations, as well as legal assessments of all regulatory issues related to such processes. Within aquaculture law she has special knowledge towards the exceptions within the Norwegian traffic light system. Heidi Ann has also advised aquaculture clients on issues related to the EU Animal Health Law and has therefore experience with regulatory issues related to listed fishing diseases. Heidi Ann was in 2022 and 2023 ranked as "Rising Star" within Legal500.

Wikborg Rein

Heidi| Jorkjend

Heidi specialises in competition law. She has extensive experience with cases involving violations of competition rules, notifiable transactions, and general advisory work. She also has extensive experience with the Security Act's rules on ownership control and international FDI. Heidi assists Norwegian and international clients in all aspects of competition law. She has worked on some of the largest investigation cases in Norway, both for competition authorities (Norwegian Competition Authority, ESA, and the Commission), national courts, and the EFTA Court. She has also assisted in numerous complex transactions.

Wikborg Rein

Helene Eng

Helene Eng works primarily with corporate law and transactions. She assists clients with practical and strategic advice, as well as dispute resolution before the courts. Helene has experience as an advisor in connection with acquisitions, contract negotiations and shareholder conflicts, and has assisted in extensive disputes

Advokatfirmaet Hjort

Helge Neraal

DLA Piper

Helge Neraal

Partner

Kvale Advokatfirma DA

Helge Stemshaug

Partner

BAHR

Helle Stølan Olufsen

Helle Stølan Olufsen assists both employers and employees with questions within collective and individual employment law. She has experience advising in connection with tasks such as preparation of employment agreements, restructuring and downsizing, termination and dismissal cases, temporary employment and hiring, as well as collective labour law issues. Helle has worked with employment questions during transactions and due diligence processes. Furthermore, she has good knowledge of and experience in handling and following up personnel cases, also before the courts.

Advokatfirmaet Bull AS

Henning Harborg

Mr Harborg assists clients from a wide range of business areas with dispute resolution and litigation in matters concerning contract law, administrative law, property law and bankruptcy law.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Henning M. Heitmann

Partner

SANDS

Henning Nordtvedt

Henning Nordtvedt is the head of Haavind's Construction department and the Haavind dispute resolution team, and is admitted to appear before the Supreme Court. He has extensive experience with all phases of multimillion construction projects, including drafting, negotiations, assistance during project execution, mediation, litigation and dispute resolution over the last 23 years (including eight years at the Attorney General’s office – Civil Affairs). He has represented, among others, the Norwegian Government in a large number of major construction projects, including within the infrastructure sector. Nordtvedt is the main author of Haavind’s commentary on the standard EPC-contract “General conditions of contract concerning design and building” (NS 8407).

Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS

Henning Wahlen

Partner. Henning Rosenlund Wahlen has considerable experience in advising clients on a wide range of issues relating to corporate law and dispute resolution. He regularly assists with matters concerning contracts and competitive tenders, as well as disputes within employment and building and construction law. Wahlen does also has considerable experience within directors’ liability.

Selmer

Henrik Aadnesen

Partner

BAHR

Henrik Bjørnebye

Partner

BAHR