Lawyers in Norway

Katrine Lillerud

DLA Piper

Katrine Malmer-Høvik

Partner and Head of the Intellectual Property and Data Protection group.

SANDS

Kenneth Steffensen

SANDS

Ketil E Bøe

Ketil is a member of the firm's Board of Directors. He has more than 25 years of experience as advisor to investors, securities firms, banks, companies and state-owned entities with establishments, share listings and issues, mergers, acquisitions, divestments and restructurings both in Norway and abroad. In addition he advises a number of profiled Norwegian businesses and market participants with investments, project work and general commercial law advice. Ketil has in recent years increasingly focused his work within transactions in the financial industry and advice to financial institutions and other regulated firms. He has advised key Norwegian and international clients with acquisitions and transactions within banking, insurance, asset management, payment services and establishment of family offices. He also actively advices on debt capital market matters, particularly corporate bond issues and Norwegian and international borrowing programmes for Norwegian and foreign issuers. Ketil is recognized by Chambers and Partners as "Leaders in their field" in the category Corporate M&A.

Wikborg Rein

Ketil E. Sauarlia

AGP Advokater

Ketil Sellæg Ramberg

DLA Piper

Kim Fosshaug

Partner/Lawyer – Tax and VAT

Brækhus Advokatfirma AS

Kim Hellstrøm Christensen

Kim Hellstrøm Christensen works with real estate and transactions, with a particular focus on investments in commercial property. Since 2008, he has assisted in a large number of purchases and sales of real estate and real estate companies, covering the entire process from the bidding process to closing. Kim has extensive experience with interdisciplinary issues at the intersection of real estate and corporate, financing, tax, and value-added tax, and often acts as transaction manager and client liaison, responsible for coordinating external advisors in transaction processes. Within real estate segments, Kim's main focus is on office, logistics, retail/grocery, and hotels, and he typically assists real estate funds/PE, transaction facilitators, managers, industrial players, and real estate companies – both on the buy side and sell side.

CMS Kluge

Kirkhusmo Kirkhusmo

Partner and chairman of the board

SANDS

Kjell Sagen Berg

SANDS

Kjersti Borgen

Kjersti Borgen has specialised in employment law since 2008 and has broad experience within employment law, assisting Norwegian and international clients within various industries in the private and public sectors. Kjersti has also acted as a lawyer for employees and trade unions. She regularly provides advice in complex matters regarding, inter alia, reorganizations, redundancies, transfer of undertakings, dismissals and cases dealing with discrimination and harassment. Her work includes extensive experience with dispute resolution through negotiations and litigation before the courts. She possesses expertise in collective employment law as well. She regularly lectures and holds seminars for clients and employer/employee organizations. Kjersti worked for several years as an in-house lawyer in the Gjensidige Group and in Tekna, the largest Norwegian union of Graduate Technical and Scientific Professionals. Kjersti is also a deputy judge in the Labour Court of Norway.

Advokatfirmaet Bull AS

Kjersti Holum Karlstrøm

Partner

SANDS

Kjersti T Trøbråten

Partner Kjersti T. Trøbråten is a specialist on securities law and framework conditions for insurance and banking. For several years, she worked for the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority, at which she was responsible for the development and interpretation of rules of conduct and framework conditions for investment firms and management companies.

Wiersholm

Kjetil Haare Johansen

DLA Piper

Kjetil Hardeng

Partner Kjetil Hardeng is head of Haavind’s M&A practice team and his cross-border experience is among the most extensive of any M&A practitioner in Norway. He has assisted in major acquisitions and joint ventures in the U.S., Asia and Africa, as well as in public-to-private transactions. His exceptional expertise in cross-border M&A is confirmed by his client list, which includes many world-leading companies and investments firms, as well as many market-leaders in Norway. Technology and energy remain the areas closest to Partner Hardeng’s heart and he handles numerous matters in these areas each year. He has particularly extensive experience with renewable energy issues. Aside from transaction work, he also advises boards in public companies on deal-related compliance issues, where he provides clients with the benefits of his experience from having been a key adviser in transactions outside Europe. Partner Hardeng has been repeatedly recognized for having a solution-oriented way of working and his ability to master complex issues, interests and people, and use those skills to get the deal done have earned praise from clients.

Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS

Kjetil Vågen

Kjetil Vågen has extensive experience in advising clients within the various types of chain operations, with main focus on the retail/trade segment. Vågen assists a great number of chain operators, both franchise chains and chains in which the distributor owns all distribution channels, as well as chains that are a combination of such chains. The client base includes international, European, Nordic and Norwegian actors. An increasing degree of the assistance Vågen provides is connected to international actors who wish to start operations in the Nordic or Norwegian market by establishing corporate structures, acquisitions, establishing master franchise agreements with the associated sub franchise agreements and/or joint venture agreements, along with the accompanying clarifications of Norwegian legal requirements in connection with, inter alia, the regulatory requirements connected to e-trade (including possible concession requirements for payment companies under PSD2), competition law, privacy laws, with special focus on customer rights. The client base mainly operates within the retail segment, but clients also include restaurant chains and service businesses, such as hotel chains. Kjetil Vågen assists clients with mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, franchise agreements, trademark law, competition law, public procurements, distribution agreements, joint venture agreements, privacy protection/GDPR, lease agreements, bankruptcy and contract law.

Advokatfirmaet CLP DA

Klaus Henrik Wiese-Hansen

Partner

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS

Klemet Gaski

Klemet Gaski offers consultancy within business law, with a main emphasis on liability issues, especially for company board members, lawyers and auditors. Klemet is a permanent member of the panel of bankruptcy administrators at Oslo City Court and has significant experience assisting companies and their management throughout times of economic challenges, restructuring and/or insolvency. Klemet regularly litigates high-profile liability cases in court, such as insurance cases. His many such experiences over the years, combined with his cutting-edge expertise within insolvency, has given him the ability to analyse numbers and apply them toward specific legal issues. Clients and auditors alike point to this skill as one of Klemet’s key strengths as a lawyer. In addition, he is known for finding and negotiating out-of-court solutions that benefit the client(s).

Advokatfirmaet Bull AS

Knut Anders Sannes

Specialises in Norwegian and international contracts law, in particular within finance, corporate, construction and engineering, as well as dispute dispution and litigation.

CMS Kluge

Knut Ekern

Specialist Partner

BAHR

Knut Glad

Knut works with legal issues associated with the internet, e-commerce, telecommunication and digital media. He has an excellent understanding of the technical and commercial relations in the internet and IT industry. Knut is experienced in general contract law, including production contracts, licensing agreements and other purchase agreements. He does also assist clients in M&A and corporate law, transactions, including purchase and sale of businesses in the tech industry.

Advokatfirmaet Føyen AS

Knut Martinsen

Partner. Martinsen focuses particularly on technology companies and companies with technology as their primary value proposition. He works with companies in all phases of their lifecycle, including startups, companies needing financing – both equity and loan capital – companies undergoing financial restructuring and all forms of exit and sales processes. His experience of the various phases a company undergoes has also given him an in-depth understanding of the different aspects that must be taken into account in each one. In addition to M&A processes, Martinsen has helped clients with all kinds of IT services, from basic service and support to the procurement of advanced IT systems. Martinsen is keen to gain a fundamental understanding of each client’s business and establish good cooperative relations with them. That is why he always keeps an eye on the underlying drivers in every case and tries to highlight the value of good interactions between contract partners rather than focusing exclusively on negotiating tactics. Martinsen is highly service minded and puts the client’s need for fast follow-up high on his list of priorities. He adapts quickly to new situations and is always on hand to provide flexible and effective assistance.

Arntzen Grette

Knut Olav Fiane

Knut Olav Fiane has over 20 years of experience working with general contract law, ICT law, ICT agreements and ICT procurement within and with major national and international organizations. Through his work, he has gained extensive experience on areas within privacy, public procurement, corporate governance and compliance.

Advokatfirmaet Føyen AS

Knut Prestvik

Property (buying, selling, leasing and development), construction law, corporate finance (mergers and acquisitions)

CMS Kluge