Lawyers in Norway

Christina Paludan Melson

Christina Paludan Melson specialises in public procurement, a field she has worked in since 2004. She assists with advice at all stages of the procurement process and in disputes – both on the client and supplier side. Christina also has experience in general EU / EEA law, including state aid and competition law.

Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS

Christine Rødsæther

Partner

Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig

Christoffer Bjerknes

Partner

BAHR

Christoffer Fjellheim

Arntzen Grette

Christoph Morck

Partner/Lawyer – Corporate, M&A

Brækhus Advokatfirma AS

Christopher Borch

Partner. Mr Chris Borch mainly works with purchase and sale, development, leasing, and syndication of commercial property. He also has extensive experience in litigating real estate cases before arbitration tribunals and before the regular courts. International rating agencies rank Mr Borch as an expert in commercial real estate transactions.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Christopher Grøvdal Rønbeck

Christopher Grøvdal Rønbeck is a part of Haavind’s top-ranked fisheries and aquaculture team. Christopher assists the industry with regulatory matters and dispute resolution. He has extensive experience from the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, where he worked as a specialist director focusing on the regulatory framework for the aquaculture industry.

Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS

Christopher Hansteen

Partner Christopher Hansteen specialises in employment law, trade union law, civil servant law, pension law and litigation. He also has considerable experience working with human rights law issues. Christopher Hansteen is admitted to the Supreme Court and he has comprehensive experience as a litigator. He has assisted enterprises, employers and employees in all business sectors, and is a frequent lecturer and author of books and articles on collective and individual employment law. He has been a member of the board of the Norwegian Employment Law Association and of several human rights organisations.

Advokatfirmaet Hjort

Christopher Hestnes

Partner. Hestnes provides day-to-day advice to clients needing expertise in the fields of intellectual property law, technology, IT, media and marketing. His assistance encompasses the protection and commercialisation of intellectual property and industrial rights, such as copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and protection from knockoff/counterfeit products. He assists with the framing and negotiation of licensing and technology contracts and the framing of contracts for R&D projects, as well as providing advice on compliance issues and day-to-day media and marketing activities. Hestnes has also assisted clients in major dispute proceedings and complex negotiations relating to intellectual property rights and IT projects. Hestnes is well-versed in the business sectors he assists, and understands his customers’ needs and commercial drivers. This makes him an excellent strategic advisor for his clients.

Arntzen Grette

Christopher Sparre-Enger Clausen

Partner. Christopher heads Thommessen’s Technology and Data Protection practice group and specialises within M&A, technology and data protection law. He has extensive experience from both domestic and international M&A and IT-projects, and regularly provide clients with legal and strategic advise within a broad range of areas relating to digitalisation and technology, such as data protection, cybersecurity, outsourcing, licensing, cloud computing, software development, as well as IP and regulatory matters pertaining to IT and telecommunications.

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Christopher Sveen

Partner Christopher L Sveen is a trusted advisor to the oil- and offshore and related industries and is a frequently used advisor and negotiator in both domestic and cross-border matters, transactions and disputes. He has extensive domestic and international experience from the establishment, execution and completion of oil and gas projects, large industry facility projects and various other complex supply- and construction matters. Sveen also has extensive experience in acquisitions, divestments and restructuring of corporations. He has acted as a strategic and commercial advisor to the executive management and board of directors of numerous businesses within the oil and gas and infrastructure industry and serves as a strategic advisor to the Norwegian oil-services contractor’s assembled under The Federation of Norwegian Industries. Sveen headed the negotiations for the contractors for the new Norwegian standard offshore contracts – NTK15/NF15 – and has been central as a co-drafter and moderator in the establishment of the new Norwegian Conditions for Purchase (NIB 16). Sveen is also Norway's representative in the legal working groups developing and managing the Orgalim industry contracts and publications (such as S 2012 and SI14) and the associated Nordic terms and conditions (such as NL17 and NLM 19). He is currently involved, inter alia, in various initiatives involved in electrifying the Norwegian Continental Shelf and preparing the Norwegian oil and offshore industry for the transition to renewables and CO2-neutral solutions.

Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS

Christopher W Husebye

Christopher W. Husebye has more than 20 years of experience in company law. He has extensive experience within intellectual property law, including copyright and trade marks. He has also developed IPR strategies for several clients whose most valuable asset is IPR. His work for several of Norway’s “IPR-heavy” companies includes various types of licensing and distribution agreements. For these kinds of companies, Christopher also assists, on an ongoing basis, with the preparation and negotiation of all types of contracts within intellectual property law. In addition, Christopher has worked extensively with corporate/M&A, with an emphasis on acquisitions and sales of companies, and related agreement negotiations. Finally, Christopher has advised both telecoms companies and clients of such in drafting and negotiating contracts.

Advokatfirmaet Bull AS

Claude A. Lenth

Claude A. Lenth is a partner in Hjort’s Employment Law department. With over twenty years of experience as a lawyer Lenth has extensive experience within the employment law practice area, data privacy law and GDPR. Lenth’s large client portfolio consists of national and international companies and businesses, and public institutions as well. He is also frequently requested by managing leaders of organizations for assistance with their legal matters. Lenth provides legal counseling within all practice areas of employment law, including pension rights. Lenth advises in various matters such as restructuring and reorganization, business transfers, employment termination and dismissals, non-compete and restrictive covenants, temporary staffing procedures, termination agreement negotiations, as well as working environment conditions. Working environment conditions include whisteblowing cases and internal investigations. Lenth also has experience from the Norwegian courts and the Court of Arbitration. Since 1997, Lenth has also worked with data privacy matters within employment law. He has comprehensive experience with all types of privacy matters within various branches and social areas, such as in the employment sector, research and health sector, investigation assignments, e-commerce and network solutions, and marketing. Lenth also advises private and public entities with all types of privacy law issues and assignments. These issues can pertain to compliance and transferring of confidential information outside of the EEA/EU area, with regards to cloud-services, the evaluation and establishment of routines for data security. Lenth’s experience with the data security for documents has been beneficial for his assistance with cases pertaining to inquiries and complaints for the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) and the Privacy Appeals Board. Lenth also assists clients with data protection within inquiries, data seizures and defense assignments. Recently, Lenth has assisted a number of private and public businesses with GDPR compliance and has been actively engaged in hearings pertaining to The Personal Data Act through his position on the Data Protection committee in the Norwegian Association of Lawyers.

Advokatfirmaet Hjort

Claus Christian Schmidt

Partner in Zacco Norway AS

Zacco

Claus Krag Brynildsen

Attorney at law •Tort law •Insurance law •Professional liability •Product liability •Personal injury •Life insurance •Legistlation on insurance activities •Facilitiation of Insurance •Contract law •Competitive tendering law •Employment law •Litigation •Arbitration

Advokatfirma Kogstad Lunde & Co

Claus Severin Mørch

Partner

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS

Clemens Kerle

Specialises in all EEA/EU law matters, particularly related to state aid, competition, financial markets regulation and the fundamental freedoms.

CMS Kluge

Corinne Silden Stephensen

Partner

SANDS

Cornelius Sogn Ness

Partner Cornelius Sogn Ness is the head of Haavind’s capital markets team. With more than 16 years of experience from handling both DCM and ECM mandates, he is highly recognised in the market for his broad knowledge of capital markets transactions. He has valuable prior experience from the Verdipapirmarkedslovutvalg secretariat and the Ministry of Finance’s financial markets department. His work has had a particular focus on private placements of high-yield bond issues, listings on Oslo Børs, in addition to advising on ECM transactions and public takeovers. He has advised on almost all of the largest public takeovers completed in the Norwegian market the last ten years. In recent years, he has advised on several of the largest capital markets transactions in Norway, including several private placements of high-yield bond issues and subsequent listings of the bonds on the Oslo Stock Exchange. In addition to his capital markets expertise, Partner Ness is experienced in M&A and corporate law issues. Partner Ness is consistently ranked and recommended as a leading capital markets lawyer in Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, Legal 500 and in the Norwegian Financial Daily’s (Finansavisen) annual Norwegian lawyer and law firm rankings.

Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS

Dag Erik Rasmussen

Dag Erik is head of the firm's Capital Markets practice. He primarily works with transactions relating to listed companies and advises companies, investment banks and investors. He lectures on company- stock exchange- and securities law. Dag Erik has experience as a board member in listed companies and investment companies. He is a member of the board of the Oslo Stock Exchange and represents the Norwegian Society of Financial Analysts on the Norwegian Corporate Governance Board. Dag Erik is rated by Chambers and Partners, Legal 500 and IFLR.

Wikborg Rein

Dag Henden Torsteinsen

Dag Henden Torsteinsen has special expertise in commercial property development and transactions. He is a member of the editorial board of the professional journal Tidsskrift for eiendomsrett (Journal of Property Law) and is a sought-after lecturer for the property industry and commercial brokers. Dag is chairman of several property companies that own and develop property in the Greater Oslo region.

Arntzen Grette

Dag Sigvart Kaada

Vice Managing Partner

Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS

Dag Thomas Hansson

Experienced financing lawyer assisting our clients in the negotiations and documentation of a broad range of financing solutions. He is specialised in leveraged and acquisition finance and acts for investors, borrowers and lenders (banks and others). In recent years he has been instructed by a number of direct lenders in connection with acquisitions in Norway. He has also acted on several significant restructuring deals in the Norwegian market

CMS Kluge

Daniel Jovanovic

Partner

BAHR