Lawyers in Norway

Ståle O. Meleng

Ståle O. Meleng works primarily with commercial properties, with emphasis on transactions, lease and management as well as structuring of property projects.

Wiersholm

Ståle R Kristiansen

Mr 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

Sunniva Jacobsen Øyen

Sunniva Jacobsen Øyen advises Norwegian and international clients on privacy, employment law, and compliance matters. Her GDPR practice covers implementation and compliance across the financial, research, and marketing sectors, including issues related to control measures, CCTV, email inspections, and personal data processing in whistleblowing cases and investigations. A secondment to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority gives her a practical understanding of how the regulatory authority approaches these issues — a perspective she brings directly to client work. Sunniva also advises on sustainability compliance, including the Transparency Act and adaptation to EU frameworks such as CSRD and CSDDD. She previously served as committee secretary for the government-appointed Transparency Committee, where her work spanned freedom of speech, privacy, media law, and employment-related confidentiality issues.

Advokatfirmaet Hjort

Sunniva Kinsella

Senior Lawyer

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS

Sunniva Viken

Senior associate

Kvale Advokatfirma DA

Svein Aage Valen

Mr Valen has litigated numerous cases before both the public courts and arbitration tribunals. He has been engaged in many extensive and high profiled criminal cases within areas concering white collar crime, tax fraud, environmental crime and corporate penalty cases related to the Working Environment Act. He has broad experience counselling both large, private clients and public entities.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Svein Bergset

Partner. Bergset has 30 years’ experience in insurance and tort law and has throughout his career established a comprehensive competence with most areas of this field, hereunder general insurance, property, liability, personal injurie and life insurance. With more than two hundred proceedings before the courts, Bergset has extensive trial experience also from the Supreme Court and with arbitration. Bergset has long experience as counsel for the state, municipalities, most of Norway’s insurance companies, banks, malpractice from professionals such as lawyers, architects, engineers, brokers, board members and contractors and also practice as counsel for international insurance and reinsurance companies. He has handled many significant and comprehensive disputes. Bergset has written insurance terms and conditions for insurance companies and revised the textbook on liability insurance. Bergset has been a partner in RIISA since 2001 and has been admitted to the Supreme Court since 2007. Svein Bergset has extensive procedural assignments for the courts in insurance, tort law, contract law and social security law. During 2022 and 2023 Svein Bergset has been involved in 5 civil cases for the Supreme Court, he has litigated three court cases and has twice assisted a lawyer from National Office for Health Service Appeals who had a test case before the Supreme Court.

RIISA Advokatfirma ANS

Svein G. Andresen

Attorney-at-law/Partner Svein G. Andresen has been with KPMG for 22 years and has extensive experience within PE, insurance, oil services and processing industry. Before joining KPMG, Svein worked for four years as a tax consultant at the Norwegian Directorate of Taxes and as a legal advisor at the Central Tax Office for Large Enterprises. He is currently the head of the Norwegian KPMG Corporate Tax initiatives. Professional experience includes international taxation (especially cross-border tax planning and reorganization), and transfer pricing. His clients are mainly listed Norwegian companies and large foreign multinationals with operations in Norway. Svein is frequently a speaker at seminars on International Corporate Tax and Transfer Pricing issues, and he has published several articles in this area of practice. Svein has been listed as a leading transfer pricing adviser in Norway in Euromoney Legal Media Group for the last eight years. In addition, he has been mentioned twice as one of the leading tax advisors in Norway in International Tax Review.

KPMG Law Advokatfirma AS, Norway

Svein Gerhard Simonnæs

Partner

BAHR

Svein Gunnar Stang Hansen

Svein Gunnar has considerable experience in providing assistance with tax and corporate law issues related to various forms of restructurings, transactions, conversions, generational changes, as well as all types of correspondence with the tax authorities. Svein Gunnar has extensive experience, among other things, in commercial real estate, residential development, investment companies, family-owned companies, etc.

Advokatfirmaet Føyen AS

Svein Holden

Svein Holden is a partner in Hjort’s Criminal Law department. Holden primarily works as a defense attorney in criminal cases and as an advisor pertaining to criminal law issues for businesses. In addition to criminal law, Holden also assists the firm with investigation assignments. Holden has comprehensive experience and expertise from the Prosecutor’s Office. From 2005 to 2013, Holden was a prosecutor and responsible for several major criminal cases, most notably the July 22nd case. He also appeared as prosecutor for several criminal cases before the Norwegian Supreme Court. Holden is regularly appointed as defense attorney for the Oslo District Court and the Borgarting Court of Appeal.

Advokatfirmaet Hjort

Svein Terje Tveit

Tveit has extensive experience of all aspects of EU/EEA, Norwegian and international competition law, regularly leading complex mergers and investigations, including multi-jurisdictional filings. He regularly also assists with state aid and public procurement mandates. He has particular expertise in the retail/food, transport, TMT and energy sectors.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Svein-Helge Hanken

Svein-Helge works primarily 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, as well as aquaculture law. He also has experience as an in-house group legal counsel from within the seafood industry and has advised on a wide range of both corporate and operational issues, both in connection with transactions, operational projects and ongoing cases.

Wiersholm

Sven Bjørk

Partner. Bjørk assists employers and employees with advice, investigations/inquiries, negotiations and advocacy in connection with the termination of employment relationships, reorganisations and business transfers. He provides strategic advice on non-compete clauses and bonus, share-based and other incentive schemes. In addition, he provides general legal advice on business and sports law. Bjørk has extensive experience of negotiating solutions to individual and collective workplace disputes and litigating such cases in courts of law. Sven has previously worked as a lawyer with the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO) and DNB’s employment law department. From his time at DNB, he has experience and expertise relating to practical, in-house HR processes and employment law related to reorganisations, personnel cases and the handling of whistleblower cases. Experience from several sides of the labour market means that Bjørk can quickly understand the client’s needs and see the practical consequences of the advice he gives. This has made him an important strategic advisor for his clients. Sven is often asked to lecture on various employment law topics and is a regular examiner and supervisor in various subjects at the University of Bergen.

Arntzen Grette

Sven Eriksrud

Partner

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS

Sverre Bragdø-Ellenes

Advokatfirmaet Helmr AS

Sverre Sandvik

Partner Sverre Sandvik has extensive experience in advising on stock exchange listings, other capital market transactions, mergers and acquisitions, bond loans and general company and securities law. Sverre Sandvik's list of clients includes financial institutions, investment banks, listed companies, private equity companies and governmental bodies.

Wiersholm

Sverre Tyrhaug

Managing Partner. Mr Sverre Tyrhaug has advised on a number of share issues, IPOs and other capital markets transactions. Prior to being appointed as Managing Partner, he was the head of Thommessen's capital markets group. He is recognised as a leading capital markets lawyer in reputable international rankings. He also has significant experience within M&A, with a particular focus on public M&A. Mr Tyrhaug has been Managing Partner of Thommessen since 2013.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Synne Homble

Synne Homble is an experienced business lawyer with a unique background combining law, business and leadership. She joined Homble Solheim as partner in 2024, after seven years in the top management of the transport group Vygruppen AS, and nine years in the top management of the global aquaculture group Cermaq Group AS. Before that she was a business lawyer in Wikborg Rein, specialising in company law, stock exchange regulations, M&A, and employment law. Synne Homble has a broad experience from board positions, and for the time being serves as Chair of the Board of Flåm Utvikling AS, Deputy Chair of the Board of Fjord Tours Group AS and member of Shareholders’ Committee of Bonheur ASA. Synne Homble advises on matters pertaining to corporate governance, law and leadership, company law, shareholder disputes and M&A, crisis management and company investigations, and other legal matters where her broad experience from business, leadership and strategy comes into play. Synne Homble is a member of the Norwegian Bar Association.

Homble Solheim advokatfirma AS

Tage Brigt A. Skoghøy

DLA Piper

Tarjei Pedersen

Real Estate (Sale and purchase, leasehold and development, Planning and building, Dispute resolution, Real Estate Law)

CMS Kluge

Tarjei Thorkildsen

Partner

BAHR

Terje Gerhard Andersen

Partner

Advokatfirmaet Helmr AS

Terje Granvang

Partner. Granvang works mainly with litigation, arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution for all kinds of commercial enterprises. He has wide experience as counsel in large and complex disputes, particularly in the field of professional liability. He has since 1988 worked with professional negligence matters and assisted a number of Norway’s largest international accounting firms.

Arntzen Grette