Brækhus Advokatfirma AS

Real Estate

Partner/Lawyer – Real Estate and Construction

Karoline Røvik Zeiner works with general business law and specialises in real estate and planning and building law. She possesses special expertise in the area of real estate development (residential and commercial properties) and assists real estate developers and landowners at all stages of the development process – option agreements, contracts, transactions, regulation, plot structuring, securing of rights (parking, roads etc.), registration of land, choice of organisational structure, sectioning, establishment of joint ownerships/residents’ associations/investment properties etc.

Karoline’s expertise includes advice related to commercial lease agreements/tenancy law, housing law (housing cooperative and owner-tenant law), as well as construction contracts. Among other things, she has assisted several joint ownerships in cases concerning division and merging of joint ownerships in recent years.

Karoline has also in recent years specialised in sustainability, in particular in relation to the real estate sector, and assists with, e.g., ESG adaptations in lease agreements, advice related to regulations on reuse, applications in relation to the Norwegian Environment Agency in connection with recycling and more.

Karoline is often in court and has considerable experience with dispute resolution. Her litigation experience also includes interim injunctions/freezing orders and land reallocation cases.

2023 Partner, Brækhus Advokatfirma 2020 - 2022 Partner, Dalan Advokatfirma DA 2015 - 2020 Lawyer / Senior Lawyer, Dalan Advokatfirma DA 2013 - 2015 Lawyer, HELP Forsikring AS 2011 - 2013 Associate, HELP Forsikring AS

Norwegian and English

2011 Master of Laws, University of Oslo 2005 Human Rights Studies, Lund University, Sweden 2004 Peace and conflict studies, Lund University, Sweden