Lawyers in Norway

Steinar Nundal

Mr Steinar Nundal works mainly with regular counselling and transaction counselling to norwegian and foreign businesses in the special fields domestic and international corporate and capital taxation, tax, accounting and corporate law. Steiner further assists companies in issues regarding yearly tax assessment and with audits and complaints.

Kvale Advokatfirma DA

Sten Foyn

Partner Sten Foyn is head of the employment law expert group of Haavind’s labour, employment and corporate governance practice area. He has extensive experience related to transfer of undertaking/outsourcing, handling of personnel matters, working hours and working environment issues, whistleblowing, investigation, civil servants law, protection of privacy and international employment law. Partner Foyn also regularly handles a number of reorganisations/restructurings for Norwegian and international companies and recently has been lead partner in major restructurings necessitated by the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, during recent years Partner Foyn has established himself as one of the leading litigators in employment law in Norway, including having litigated two Supreme Court cases in the same year (2019). Recent years have also seen him selected by clients as lead lawyer in a number of high-profile whistleblowing cases and he has been appointed head of the 4-panel independent Whistleblowing body of Norwegian Lutheran Mission. He is a board member of the Norwegian Labour Law Association, the Norwegian Association of Employment Lawyers, and Norway’s Board member to the European Employment Lawyer’s Association (EELA) and has been a member of a reference group in the Ministry of Labour, assessing the rules on whistleblowing.

Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS

Stephan Brodschöll

Stephan Brodschöll advises clients in the internet-, IT-, telecommunications-, technology- and media sector with an emphasis on intellectual property law, contract law, competition law, privacy law and regulatory law. Brodschöll has experience as general counsel of Opera Software and advices a number of Norwegian technology companies with an international focus. Brodschöll is also an experienced competition lawyer, and he has for many years worked with digitalization projects and with legal issues in relation to Artificial Intelligence and Big Data.

Advokatfirmaet CLP DA

Stephan L Jervell

Partner Stephan L. Jervell works with litigation, dispute resolution and negotiations, and public law framework conditions for trade and industry, including EU/EEA law. His expertise also includes administrative law, competition law, state aid and procurement law, and contract law. Jervell is admitted to the Supreme Court and litigates regularly before Norwegian courts. He has litigated before the EFTA Court and carried out several hearings before the EU Commission. He also has experience as an arbitrator in national and international arbitrations. In recent years, Jervell has been highly engaged in international arbitration in shipping, oil and gas, M&A disputes and general contract law. He has litigated many cases in the ICC and the SCC systems and also been engaged in ad hoc arbitration.

Wiersholm

Stephanie Brungot

Managing Associate

Kvale Advokatfirma DA

Stian Holm Johannessen

Stian acts for clients within the shipping, offshore and energy sectors with a particular focus on dispute resolution, and legal, strategic and commercial advice. He acts for shipowners, yards and suppliers within these sectors. He has considerable experience with dispute resolution and regularly assists in disputes both before the ordinary courts and arbitration. Stian has a Master's degree (LLM) in maritime law from the National University of Singapore.

Wikborg Rein

Stian Hultin Oddbjørnsen

Stian Hultin Oddbjørnsen is an accomplished lawyer specializing particularly in IT and technology law in addition to commercial contracts. Stian has a notable background when it comes to the SSA portfolio that is widely used in Norway, having contributing to the design of SSA-L and providing official guidance text for other agreements. Stian also has a strong track record in public procurement, assisting both public and private clients from preparation through to contract management. His work has earned him rankings in Chambers, Legal 500, and Kapital/Finansavisen’s lawyer surveys. Notably, he is the only Norwegian lawyer ranked in both technology (Chambers, Finansavisen) and public procurement (Chambers, Legal500), highlighting his broad expertise and commitment to his practice areas. Stian effectively serves a diverse, international clientele, providing clear, strategic legal counsel tailored to their needs.

Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS

Stian Sørensen Schilvold

Stian Sørensen Schilvold works within technology law and transactions. Within technology law, Stian has expertise within privacy law, different types of agreements (such as licensing, service, and cooperation agreements and outsourcing), intellectual property rights, e-commerce, negotiations, and dispute resolution. Stian also assists investors, companies, and founders within all business areas with their transactions. A big part of his transactional assistance is related to technology businesses due to his expertise within this industry. Stian is focused on working closely with his customers and providing practical and value-generative advice, taking into consideration the overall context of the advice and not necessarily only the legal aspects. His previous experience from public administration and as in-house counsel in the technology and media business creates a solid basis for providing such advice.

Advokatfirmaet Bull AS

Stian Tande Mortensen

Stian is head of Wikborg Rein's Financing team. He specialises in debt financing, with a particular focus on high yield bonds, direct lending transactions and financial restructurings, regularly acting for both borrowers, lenders and investors. Stian is top ranked within the categories of Banking and Financing, Capital Markets and Insolvency and Corporate Recovery (Legal 500 and IFLR1000). He also has several years of experience as in-house lawyer with DNB Bank ASA, both advising DNB Markets Investment Banking Division, Equity and Debt Capital Markets, and as advisor to Ocean Industries where he worked with large cross-boarder restructuring matters.

Wikborg Rein

Stian Tennfjord

Partner

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS

Stig Berge

Partner. Mr Stig Berge is one of Norway's leading lawyers within corporate law. He has long experience with complex M&A transactions as well as smaller transactions. He also litigates cases within corporate law and professional liability.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Stig Bjørklund

Attorney-at-law/Partner Stig Bjørklund has been an Attorney-at-law since 1996 and Partner in KPMG since October 2007. He is a member of KPMG Norway's team of specialist on the seafood industry. Stig has more than 20 years of previous experience working as an adviser with Norwegian domestic tax matters and international tax matters for both Norwegian and international clients. His main area of focus is on corporate tax, company law and mergers & acquisition. He has broad experience in most areas within corporate tax and company law. He also works with transactions relating to sale of businesses and real estate. Stig is currently the head of the Norwegian KPMG Labor law group. Stig does also have extensive experience in handling tax disputes with the Norwegian tax authorities.

KPMG Law Advokatfirma AS, Norway

Stig Klausen Engelhart

Partner

BAHR

Stig L. Bech

Stig has been a leading lawyer in the field of real estate law for several decades. He has extensive experience in transactions, property development, government relations, financing, and restructuring in real estate companies. He is ranked at the highest level in Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 and has been instrumental in developing industry-leading standards in the field. He has published several articles on real estate law, written commentary on the previous law on real estate brokerage, and taught at various industry forums, including the Center for Real Estate Studies, the Lawyers’ Education Center, Estate Media, and Finansavisen Eiendom.

Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS

Stig Norby

Attorney at law Damages for personal injury Insurance law Tort law Social security law Litigation Negotiations

Advokatfirma Kogstad Lunde & Co

Stig Nordal

DLA Piper

Stig Walle

Stig Walle has extensive international experience as an advisor to the energy and offshore industries. He has assisted in a number of international offshore projects and major development projects within oil and gas, processing plants, aquaculture, mineral operations, offshore wind, and onshore wind power. Stig specializes in contract law issues and the follow-up of large projects, including dispute resolution related to these. He has expert knowledge of all types of turn-key, manufacturing, installation, and supply contracts. Stig has extensive international experience, including from his role as Head of Legal for Equinor South Korea Ltd., and has been involved in projects in the UK, Germany, USA, Brazil, West Africa, and Asia. He has broad experience within offshore wind projects, where for more than 10 years he has worked on the development and execution of international offshore wind projects. He has unique knowledge of cooperation agreements, contracts, and issues of importance for the implementation of these types of projects.

Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig

Stine Barstad

Stine assists banks and bank syndicates, managers of bond issues, trustees, sponsors, bondholders, borrowers and others in connection with different types of financing transactions and advise in relation to financing. Stine assists with all types of debt financing, including bank financing, bond financing and direct lending and she works extensively with acquisition financing and general corporate financing, but she also has experience with other types of financing, such as project financing. The matters Stine works on are often of international character and she has assisted on a number of cross-border bond issuances and bank financings over the last few years within different sectors such as private equity, tech, energy and commercial real estate. Stine has also over the last few years worked with on many sustainability-linked financings. In relation to financing, Stine advises on general contract law, company law and security law.

Wikborg Rein

Stine Bjørnstad

Stine Bjørnstad advises Norwegian and international clients on labor law and corporate governance matters, including termination, downsizing processes, employment contract drafting, workplace investigations, and settlement agreements. Her academic background includes a master's thesis on employer documentation requirements in downsizing processes, with a particular focus on how courts assess the use of selection criteria — an area directly relevant to her advisory practice.

Advokatfirmaet Hjort

Stine Snertingdalen

Partner

Kvale Advokatfirma DA

Stuart Stock

Stuart Stock is an experienced competition lawyer with extensive expertise in large and complex competition law matters. He advises across the full spectrum of competition law, with a particular focus on multi-jurisdictional merger control and investigations, where he has developed significant specialist knowledge.​ Stuart is qualified as a solicitor of England and Wales, in addition to being admitted to practice as a lawyer in Norway. He has previously worked with competition law at major law firms in London and Brussels and at the UK competition authority, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).​ In addition to his international experience, Stuart is recognised as one of Norway’s leading competition lawyers. He is ranked as both a Future Leader by Lexology Index and a Next Generation Partner in Legal 500, where he is described as knowing “every detail of ourbusiness [with] the ability to focus on just what is important for us in every given task”.​ Stuart regularly speaks at conferences and has published widely on topical competition law issues, including merger control, the application of competition law in the renewable energy sector, and developments in Norwegian foreign direct investment laws. He is the current author of the chapters on Norwegian merger control and Norwegian FDI in Lexis+, as well as the chapter on EEA merger control for Practical Law. Outside of his fee earning work, Stuart is also a member of the Committee for International Lawyers at the Norwegian Bar Association.

Arntzen Grette

Ståle Gjengset

Of Counsel / Attorney

BAHR

Ståle Hagen

Partner, Lawyer

Selmer

Ståle Kristiansen

Partner Ståle R Kristiansen advises several major Norwegian and foreign companies in connection with transactions, restructurings and general issues concerning tax, corporate and accounting law. He also assists clients in tax disputes, both at the administrative level and in Norwegian courts.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS