About
- Firm Overview Advokatfirmaet Føyen AS is a law firm of dedicated legal specialists with extensive expertise in Real Estate, Technology, Employment, Corporate law, Construction, Public procurement and ICT media. The firm has a well-established reputation for legal excellence, offering clients highly experienced attorneys with in-depth knowledge of their respective fields. Føyen regularly advises both domestic and international enterprises, as well as organisations and public authorities. Committed to delivering high-quality and efficient service, Føyen strives to gain a comprehensive understanding of its clients' industries and businesses. - Main Areas of Practice - Real Estate - Employment - Technology, digitalisation and telecom - Construction - Public Procurement - Company law, transactions, taxes and fees - Real Estate - Head of department: Roar R. Lillebergen - 7 partners, 11 fee earners Føyen has one of the country’s most experienced and largest legal teams specialising in real estate. We are highly ranked in several national and international legal rankings. Føyen provides advisory services across all legal fields and in all areas where real estate is the focal point. Our clients represent the full spectrum of market participants in terms of size, complexity, and roles. This diversity presents a wide range of challenges, benefiting all those we assist. We have in-depth knowledge of market challenges and provide support throughout the entire value chain, including real estate, planning and construction, contracts and procurement, and corporate law. - Employment - Head of department: Preben Haugmoen Mo - 3 partners, 10 fee earners Employment law is a broad and complex field that most of us encounter at some point in our working lives. Decisions related to workplace environment, pensions, and downsizing can have significant economic and human consequences for both businesses and employees. Seeking timely legal advice helps save resources and ensures better processes. With our expertise, experience, and deep understanding of the challenges in this field, we can quickly provide well-considered recommendations and secure the best solutions for the entire organization. - Technology, digitalisation and telecom - Head of department: Lars Folkvard Giske - 4 partners, 8 fee earners Føyen is one of Norway’s largest specialist legal teams in technology, digitalisation, data privacy, intellectual property, and internet law, working extensively with both customers and suppliers. With our business acumen, expertise, and experience in this field, we are consistently ranked among the top in various national and international legal rankings. Few other law firms in Norway have the same level of experience and specialized competence that we have developed over time. Through our collaboration with and work for leading national and international players, we have first-hand knowledge of emerging technological, legal, and structural developments, as well as the regulatory framework within this field. - Construction - Head of department: Thomas O. Strömbom - 5 partners, 11 fee earners Construction law covers manufacturing contracts within the building and construction industry. Our team assists developers and contractors across all segments of the field, providing support in drafting and quality-assuring contracts, monitoring construction projects, negotiating final settlements, and resolving disputes. Føyen’s construction law attorneys work with some of the most skilled players in the industry, both on the contractor and developer sides. This gives us a solid and fundamental understanding of the sector’s needs. We take a comprehensive approach, both to individual cases and to our clients’ businesses, ensuring the best possible advice while promoting our clients’ interests in a cost-effective manner. - Public procurement - Head of department: Jørgen Myhre - 4 partners, 9 fee earners The public sector procures goods, services, and construction work worth nearly NOK 600 billion annually, making proper procurement essential for managing public funds. Regulations set the framework for planning, execution, and completion, and mistakes can be costly. With decades of experience, Føyen advises both public and private entities, providing support throughout the procurement process, including training, guidelines, templates, and other practical tools. - Company law, transactions, taxes and fees - Head of department: Ottar F. Egset - 6 partners, 2 fee earners ### Languages - Norwegian - English - German - Russian - Scandinavian languages ### Staffing Figures - 19 Number of partners - 45 Number of lawyers
Office locations
Oslo
Oslo
Advokatfirmaet Føyen AS Dronning Eufemias Gate 8 0191 Oslo Oslo Norway
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Anette Thunes
Thunes has considerable experience as a legal adviser on issues related to business premises, with emphasis on rentals, as well as on buying and selling of real estate and real estate companies. Thunes also assists in large part with advice related to development, management, ground leasing, division of property into individual units, and other issues related to real estate law. Thunes has extensive experience in dispute resolution related to real estate and general contract law, including substantial procedural experience. Anette Thunes also holds regular courses for clients and in cooperation with course organizers. · Real Estate
Hans-Jørgen Arvesen
Hans-Jørgen Arvesen works on construction law issues in connection with procurement and delivery of construction projects. Much of his work is related to the negotiations, planning, signing and implementation of contracts, including compliance with requirements, deadlines and notification. Hans-Jørgen Arvesen also has extensive experience with final settlement discussions and dispute resolution related to construction contracts. Hans-Jørgen Arvesen also assists explorers and operators within the mining industry, in particular issues related to contract law negotiations regarding land access. · Construction
Jacob Solheim
Solheim has extensive experience in residential and commercial property, including property transactions, property development, construction law, tenancies and other questions related to real estate law. In addition, he works with contract law and general business law. · Real Estate
Jørgen Myhre
Jørgen Myhre is specialized in public procurement and public contracts. He has extensive experience with all aspects of procurement regulations, including ICT procurement and construction. He also works with adjoining areas of law such as contract law, public law, administrative law, etc. Myhre has worked a lot with publicly owned waste companies and the issues that are particularly relevant in this connection. · Public Procurement
Knut Glad
Knut works with legal issues associated with the internet, e-commerce, telecommunication and digital media. He has an excellent understanding of the technical and commercial relations in the internet and IT industry. Knut is experienced in general contract law, including production contracts, licensing agreements and other purchase agreements. He does also assist clients in M&A and corporate law, transactions, including purchase and sale of businesses in the tech industry. · Technology, Media & Telecom
Knut Olav Fiane
Knut Olav Fiane has over 20 years of experience working with general contract law, ICT law, ICT agreements and ICT procurement within and with major national and international organizations. Through his work, he has gained extensive experience on areas within privacy, public procurement, corporate governance and compliance. · Technology / ICT
Lars David Råmunddal
Lars David Råmunddal works with issues related to commercial real estate and has special expertise and experience with real estate transactions, including both sales and purchases of real estate and real estate companies. Lars also has experience with the sale of property which is under construction. · Real Estate
Lars Folkvard Giske
Lars Folkvard Giske assists clients in connection with ICT projects. He has experience with procurement, negotiations, the use of standard agreements and tailor made solutions in the ICT and media sector. Good technical and business understanding enables Lars Folkvard Giske to assist his clients as a sparring partner in strategic opportunities and choices. He assists also with quality assurance of agreements across legal, technical and commercial considerations. · Technology
Marianne Killengreen
Marianne Killengreen works at the company’s Corporate Department. She has special responsibility for counseling and assistance in acquisitions, reorganizations, generational changes and restructuring both nationally and internationally. She has special expertise in national and international tax, company law and contract law. · Corporate / M&A
Marianne Klausen
Marianne Klausen’s main field is labour law. Marianne assists in such labour law issues as reorganization and workforce reductions, outsourcing and individual job protection cases. Marianne Klausen has several years of experience from the prosecution and the courts, and assists especially in matters of dispute resolution, including negotiation and mediation. She has also extensive experience with assignments connected to proceedings. In addition to issues of labour law, Marianne assists with questions that lie on the borderland between labor law and criminal law issues. In this connection, she provides advice on integrity issues, including corruption, money laundering and fraud. · Employment / Labour Law
Ole André Oftebro
Ole André assists companies with all kinds of employment law issues. For example, he gives advice in connection with rationalization measures and redundancies, complex dismissal matters, whistleblowing cases, employer’s right of management and negotiations. He has extensive experience in dispute resolution and strategic advice. Ole André is ranked as Up & Coming within employment law in Finansavisen’s annual lawyer survey and by the international ranking agencies Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500. In addition to employment law, Ole André specializes in product liability, corporate due diligence and litigation. · Employment
Ottar F. Egset
Ottar F. Egset works with property development, property transactions and legal issues in connection with real estate and construction contracts. He advises property developers on acquisition of property, on issues around area development, and assists with facilitation of sales and lettings. He has extensive experience with standard lease contracts for commercial properties. Egset is also skilled in HSE and internal inspections within construction and property industry. · Real Estate
Per Gustav Lilleaasen
Lilleaasen has extensive experience working with contract and construction law, corporate law, finance and legal issues related to real estate. Through his work he has prepared a wide range of contracts (both in Norwegian and English). Lilleaasen also provides general advice and support in disputes concerning company law and general contract law. · Construction
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. · Employment
Roar R. Lillebergen
Roar R. Lillebergen works with planning and building law, construction law and real estate law. He is experienced in contract work within his field of expertise, both nationally and internationally. He also assists clients with questions concerning contract law and has assisted in the negotiations of contracts relating to supply of services. Lillebergen also assists explorers and operators within the mining industry, including matters regardin zoning law, land access, concession and other regulatory issues and expropriation. · Real Estate
Stede G. Nilsen
Stede has particular expertise in construction law, environmental law, property law and general contract law and regularly litigates cases before the courts. From his time as a university fellow, Stede has gained a thorough and broad expertise in contract law and law of torts. Stede is a regular lecturer on subjects within his areas of expertise. He has further particular expertise in tenancy law, ground lease for industrial purposes, and development and building law, where over several years he has assisted a variety of clients with contract negotiations, contract drafting and litigation before the courts. Stede has also advised several professional property developers on issues from initiating the regulatory process under the Norwegian Planning and Building Act and the Norwegian Public Administration Act, to completed construction and dispute resolution with contractors and buyers. · Construction
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. · Tax
Thomas Oskar Strömbom
Thomas is experienced in construction law, public procurement and general contract law. He has extensive experience as a legal adviser in construction projects and assists in the planning, tendering and contract phases. · Construction
Vebjørn Søndersrød
Vebjørn works in particular with digital marketing, internet services, social media, apps, loyalty programs and e-commerce as well as legal and information security risk assessments in addition to advising on all aspects of the GDPR regulations. He has extensive experience in the legal areas of personal data, all aspects of marketing law, intellectual property law and information security. Vebjørn is a widely used speaker. · Data Protection & Privacy