Lawyers in Norway

Peter Bugge Hjorth

Partner

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS

Peter Hammerich

Partner & Chairman

BAHR

Peter Lenda

Peter Lenda has worked dedicatedly with ICT law issues for over 20 years. Previously, Peter has been head of Group Procurement IT at DNB, where he was commercially and contractually responsible for IT acquisitions of NOK 3-4 billion annually. In recent years, the focus has been on modernization in the public and private sectors to ensure digitization and innovation through the use of cloud services and cloud platforms. He has in-depth experience from both the supplier side and the customer side and experience from public activities. Peter's unique expertise relates in particular to various digitization processes, where IT law goes hand in hand with procurement law and privacy law.

Arntzen Grette

Peter Skutvik

AGP Advokater

Peter Vagle

Peter Vagle has extensive experience with litigation and work in procedural law, construction law and public law issues, including public procurements. Peter also takes mediation and arbitration assignments. His main focus is currently related to the planning and implementation of major processes before the courts, but also includes counselling, as well as various training and lecture activities.

Advokatfirmaet Glittertind AS

Petter Bjerke

Partner

SANDS

Petter Schmidt

Real Estate (Sale and purchase, leasehold and development, financial settlement), corporate (Mergers and Acquisitions, Company Law, Corporate Governance).

CMS Kluge

Petter Sverstad Eriksen

Partner/Lawyer – Real Estate and Construction

Brækhus Advokatfirma AS

Petter Thomren Moltu

Petter advises on banking and financing. He assists both lenders and borrowers with various forms of financing, including project financing, acquisition financing, E&P and energy. He has also assisted on several securitisation transactions.

Wiersholm

Preben Brecke

Partner Preben Brecke is the Managing Partner of Haavind and the head of our private equity practice team. He specialises in private equity, mergers, acquisitions and corporate issues. He has in-depth knowledge of the Private Equity sector from advising private equity clients (both Nordic and international funds) for more than a decade. He is particularly renowned for his work advising private equity and investment funds on purchase and sale of businesses, establishment of joint ventures and shareholder issues, especially in the technology and aquaculture sectors. He also continuously works for blue chip companies on complex M&A, international projects and restructurings. Partner Brecke is well known in the Norwegian market for his dedication, ability to drive projects forward and understanding of the commercial aspects of the matters. He has earned particular praise from clients who appreciate his analytical skill and ability to simplify complex structures and agreements.

Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS

Preben Haugmoen Mo

Preben H. Mo works with individual and collective employment law. He conducts investigations in companies, both in private and public sector, and assists individuals affected by investigations. He has also extensive experience in business transfers and combines his knowledge of labor law and transaction litigation so that human capital of the client’s business is taken care of in the best way possible.

Advokatfirmaet Føyen AS

Preben Helverschou

Partner, Lawyer

Selmer

Preben Milde Thorbjørnsen

Preben is specialized within competition law, and has extensive experience in handling large and complex competition cases within a wide range of industries, both as a lawyer and as a public servant. Preben advises Norwegian and international clients on all aspects of competition law, with a particular focus on merger control. He has also been lead lawyer on some of the biggest infringement cases in Norway in the recent years. Preben is ranked as "Next Generation Partner" in Legal 500 and "Rising Star" in Chambers & Partners. Preben Milde Thorbjørnsen "is able to see the case from different perspectives and find solutions. He shares his views and gives good advice. He is very dedicated, thorough and a pleasant lawyer to work with, in addition to cost efficient." (Chambers & Partners Europe Guide 2022).

Wikborg Rein

Preben Willoch

Partner

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS

Pål Kvernaas

Partner Pål Kvernaas is among the most renowned employment and pension law specialists in Norway who earns praise for his work from clients and colleagues alike. His skill and experience are confirmed by the fact that international law firms and clients frequently select him as local counsel in international matters, and that his client list includes many of Norway’s leading businesses. He has extensive experience with compensation & benefits matters, restructuring and workforce adjustment, outsourcing and transfers of undertaking, change and termination of individual employments, bonus schemes, collective labour issues, HSE and strategic consulting. Kvernaas also has experience from establishing and modifying collective and individual pension schemes. He was also a Co-founder and Chairman of Norsk Pensjonsrettslig Forum (the Norwegian Pension Legal Forum). He has written articles and contributed to books about employment and pension-related issues, including being an annual panel expert on major international employment conferences (i.e. International Bar Association (IBA), European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA) and American Bar Association (ABA)). He has also frequently been ranked among the Top 10 Employment lawyers in Finansavisen (Norwegian financial daily newspaper), based on votes from peers in Norway.

Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS

Pål Lieungh

Mr Lieungh has many years of experience as legal advisor within the offshore, oil & gas and industrial sectors. He also has extensive international experience as an advisor to Norwegian companies dealing with international projects. Mr Lieungh heads the firm's Oil Service practice area.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Pål Sverre Hernæs

Pål Sverre Hernæs is a partner in Hjort’s Criminal Law department and works with litigation and dispute resolution in both civil and ciriminal cases. Hernæs has specialised experience in cases pertaining to financial crimes and compensation of negligent investment advice. He has experience in temporarily securing values and requirements, as well as proof of evidence both before and during the trial. Hernæs has extensive experience with cases pertaining to inheritance law, family law, contract law and real estate.

Advokatfirmaet Hjort

Pål-Martin Schreiner

Partner/Attorney-at-law Pål-Martin Schreiner is specialized within the following areas: International and domestic corporate tax M&A Tax Tax pricing Pål-Martin is a part of the corporate tax department covering international and domestic tax, M&A tax, tonnage tax and tax disputes. He has worked with a number of multi-national clients within a wide range of industries, including amongst other shipping, oil and gas, pharma retail and infrastructure.

KPMG Law Advokatfirma AS, Norway

Ragnhild J. Nakling

Partner, Lawyer

Selmer

Rajvinder Singh Bains

DLA Piper

Rasmus Asbjørnsen

With more than 25 years of experience, Partner Rasmus is one of the most renowned litigators in Norway. His practice routinely covers a broad spectrum of cases before courts and arbitration tribunals, such as disputes within M&A, real estate, labour law, claims for compensation, consultant’s and lawyer’s liability, EU law and tax law. He has litigated hundreds of cases before courts and arbitration tribunals at all levels during his career, including the EFTA-Court, and is one of the lawyers in Norway with the highest number of civil cases to have come before the Supreme Court, having tried 16 civil cases there in the past 17 years. In his early years, Asbjørnsen worked for almost three years as a judge in the District Court. His rhetorical abilities and discourse of reason have been singled out by clients, counterparties and judges as being his overarching strengths, along with his in-court examination skill. Asbjørnsen has achieved several noteworthy results in important and principled cases to which the market gives great respect. He is committed to cultivating the next generation of litigators, and he serves as a lecturer at the University of Oslo (UiO) and Juristenes Utdanningssenter (JUS).

Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS

Rebecca Lund Nakkim

Managing Associate

BAHR

Reid Fiskaa

Corporate / M&A specialist

CMS Kluge

Reidar Myhre

Associate Partner. In recent years, Mr Myhre has been involved in several major transactions related to sale and purchase of commercial properties and industrial businesses. He regularly holds lectures on property law and insolvency law through courses arranged by the Norwegian Bar Association. He heads Thommessen's practice area of Environment, and is also a member of the practice areas Commercial Property and Insolvency and Restructuring.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS