Lawyers in Norway

Celine Charlotte Holm-Salvesen

Celine Charlotte Holm-Salvesen specialises in tax and corporate law. She has comprehensive experience in reorganisations such as mergers, demergers, and transformations. She also assists regularly with advice to companies and boards, drafting of share purchase agreements, shareholder agreements and investment agreements, as well as general legal documents. Celine has also extensive experience with the processes related to purchase and sale of companies and assists in due diligence processes within various sectors for leading players in Norwegian and international business, as well as large and medium-sized regional companies and owners. Celine also works regularly with tax matters related to employee incentive programs, use of foreign employees and in connection with the foreign company’s operations in Norway. Celine also regularly assists insurance companies with tax reviews of companies in connection with M&A insurance. Celine is ranked as a Leading Associate within tax by Legal 500 (2025).

Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS

Charlotte Amlie Wilhelmsen

Charlotte works within the field of construction law. She primarily deals with drafting contracts, providing ongoing advice during construction projects, and dispute resolution both in and outside of the courts. Charlotte has experience assisting both property owners and contractors, as well as suppliers and consultants in a variety of projects. In addition to assisting clients in all phases of construction projects, Charlotte gives lectures and courses on construction standards and other contractual law topics.

Advokatfirmaet Bull AS

Chriss Bjorøy

Partner Chriss Bjorøy has extensive experience in real estate law, where he works particularly with property management and the purchase and sale of commercial property. Bjorøy assists several of Bergen's largest property owners, property managers and banks on a daily basis, and undertakes large and small assignments in real estate legal matters. As an authorized broker with permission from the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority, Bjorøy also assists businesses and private individuals with transactions and property settlements, including as responsible broker for settlements. Bjorøy has considerable experience in general commercial law, where he assists in connection with negotiations, transactions and due diligence. He also has good expertise in association law. Throughout his career, Bjorøy has built up extensive expertise in tort law, where he works particularly with liability insurance, and especially with professional liability such as real estate agent liability and lawyer liability. In addition to this, Bjorøy also has good expertise in personal injury compensation. Bjorøy works a lot with negotiations and dispute resolution, and has extensive procedural experience from both the District Court and the Court of Appeal.

RIISA Advokatfirma ANS

Christel Søreide

Christel heads Wiersholms employment law team and has extensive experience within employment law and dispute resolution.

Wiersholm

Christian A. Cederkvist

Christian works mainly with dispute resolution, primarily within the fields of contract law, construction law and the law of tort. He has experience with inter alia construction law, board member liability cases and major commercial disputes. Furthermore, he advises Norwegian and international clients on different matters related to construction projects and on contract law issues related to transactions. Christian is regarded as a "Key lawyer" in the category "Construction" by Legal 500, where he is described as "a skilled negotiator, thinking strategically and working independently" (2024).

Wikborg Rein

Christian B. Hjort

Christian B. Hjort is a partner in Hjort’s Criminal Law department. Hjort has extensive experience from a broad spectrum civil cases and financial criminal cases. Throughout the years Hjort has represented companies and private persons in various high profile financial criminal cases pertaining to corruption, insider trading, market manipulation, financial infidelity, and tax fraud. Cases that can be mentioned from recent years are: Oslo District Court (January – April 2018) defense attorney for stock listed seismic company prosecuted by the Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Økokrim) for the participation in tax fraud tied to exploration reimbursement in correlation with The Petroleum Taxation Act. Oslo District Court (November 2017) defense attorney for the CEO of Hexagon AB in a high profile insider trading in Next Biometrics ASA, and Asker and Bærum District Court (September 2017) defense attorney for a former sales representative in Kongsberg Defence Communication AS indicted by Økokrim for financial infidelity related to the use of intermediaries in Romania. Christian B. Hjort has pleaded several financial crime cases of principle interest before the Norwegian Supreme Court. Hjort regularly assists companies and organisations on compliance and anti-corruption measures, and in connection with external and internal investigations.

Advokatfirmaet Hjort

Christian Backe

Christian is head of the firm's Employment law practice. He assists Norwegian and international clients with advice, dispute resolution and litigation in matters concerning employment law and pension. Christian works with a wide range of employment and pension law issues. Among other things, he has extensive experience in assisting employers in connection with reorganization, including business transfers and downsizing. He also regularly assists in matters related to temporary labor and hiring conditions, and has considerable experience in assisting employers in handling whistleblowing cases. Christian assists clients in various industries within private and public sector. Christian is recognized for his work as an employment law lawyer in, among others, Chambers, Legal 500 and Finansavisen. "He is very good at understanding exactly what we want and then making a plan together with us on how to achieve it. He is able to strategise, plan, and then provide hands-on execution." Chambers & Partners

Wikborg Rein

Christian Bendiksen

Christian Bendiksen is one of Norway’s leading lawyers whitin the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has more than ten years of experience in licensing AI-based systems as well as extensive knowledge of issues concerning access to training data, data protection and database infringement issues, as well as assembling, licensing and access control to IoT-data streams. Christian has a French master’s degree in law and is a qualified English solicitor (England & Wales) and has a broad range of experience within international contracts, cross-border licensing and export issues. He writes the commentary to the Norwegian Export Control Act for the Karnov Publishing House. Christian was previously the partner responsible for public procurement law at a previous law firm and has more than 20 years of experience with handling procurement issues for Norwegian and foreign clients, and has lectured extensively on the issue both in Norway and abroad. He is ranked by the Norwegian financial newspaper Finansavisen as one of the leading lawyers within technology and digitalisation, lectures on those issues for the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and the legal course provider JUC as well as for other organisations and clients.

Advokatfirmaet Bull AS

Christian Bjørn-Hansen

Partner

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS

Christian Bjørtuft Ellingsen

Christian Bjørtuft Ellingsen has over two decades of specialization in maritime and transport law, including marine insurance (H&M, P&I, LOH, Builder's risk etc.), charter party disputes, cargo claims, shipbuilding and repair contracts, marine supply contracts and ship arrests. His expertise notably extends to both contentious and non-contentious aspects of shipbuilding contracts, offshore construction and equipment- and machinery supply contracts, including innovative and autonomous ship projects. Ellingsen regularly argues cases in arbitration and before the Norwegian courts, covering both maritime law, insurance and other tort and contract disputes in the transport and energy sector.

Gjelsten Herlofsen Advokatfirma AS

Christian Engelstad

Partner/Lawyer – Real Estate and Construction

Brækhus Advokatfirma AS

Christian Fenner

DLA Piper

Christian Fredrik Michelet

Partner

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS

Christian Galtung

Specialises in dispute resolution, administrative law and constuction law. Work also includes coprorate law, in particulal i relation to conversion of public enterprises.

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Christian Grüner Sagstad

Head of M&A and Corporate law department, Partner. Mr Christian Grüner Sagstad, has long experience within M&A and equity capital markets transactions, and acts for numerous private equity firms, investment banks, stock exchange listed companies and private companies.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Christian Hals

Partner. Christian works primarily with M&A and securities law within the oil and gas segment. He has broad experience with M&A and equity capital market transactions, and has inter alia assisted several issuers in connection with listings on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Christian Hartmann

Partner

SANDS

Christian James-Olsen

Christian is head of Wikborg Rein's Renewables Energy group in Bergen. He primarily works with project development works and contract advice within the shipping, offshore and energy industry. He has particularly broad experience from structuring, planning, negotiations and management of energy, shipbuilding and offshore projects. As part of the Renewables Energy group he is involved in several industry projects regarding renewables and the shipping industry's ongoing green transition. Christian was the Managing Partner of the Shanghai office from 2016 to 2019 and has extensive experience in cross border contracts and investment matters. Christian is ranked by Legal 500 as a recommended lawyer and for 2023 he were given the following testimonial: "I have recently worked a lot with partner Christian James-Olsen and associate Jens Drageset. Both provide quick, quality feedback. They are able to convey legal perspectives in a simple, understandable and case efficient manner. They are always available. Even after working long hours, they are in a good mood, and we always find a way forward."

Wikborg Rein

Christian Kjellby Nesset

Partner

SANDS

Christian Poulsson

Partner

Kvale Advokatfirma DA

Christian Reusch

Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution

Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig

Christian Stang Våland

Of Counsel

Kvale Advokatfirma DA

Christian Wahl

Partner

Kvale Advokatfirma DA

Christina Elisabeth Lavold

Christina Lavold's practice focuses on corporate/M&A. She holds a master of laws from the University of Oslo, where she specialized in corporate law and tax law. Lavold works mainly with private M&A and general legal advice within corporate law and contract law. Her work includes assisting both financial and industrial clients throughout all stages of the transaction process, from initial negotiations, to signing and closing. Lavold has experience with project management on both buy- and sell-side in complex M&A transactions, including structured sales processes. She has experience within a number of different sectors, including private equity, construction, technology and energy.

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