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Alexander Daae
Alexander Daae
Alexander Daae is a Senior Associate in Kvale’s litigation and dispute resolution department. Alexander has considerable courtroom experience from his work as a lawyer and deputy judge. This includes extensive litigation experience in various legal fields, particularly within employment law, contract law and the law of damages. Alexander advises on proceedings before courts at all levels, and conducts cases both independently and as a team member on larger cases. At Kvale, Alexander functions as a resource for clients and colleagues dealing with procedural and strategic issues in the fileds of dispute resolution and litigation context. Alexander also gives courses and lectures on civil procedure.
Andreas Stang Lund
Andreas Stang Lund
Andreas Stang Lund is specialized in civil litigation and dispute resolution, with an emphasis on banking and finance, corporate law, real estate, public law and offshore. Stang Lund also advices on various matters within these fields of law, and his extensive experience with complex legal proceedings includes arbitral proceedings. He came to Kvale from Hjort in 2016, and has background from the Oslo City Advocate and DnB NOR/Group Legal, where he headed the bank’s litigation team. Stang Lund has permission to appear before the Supreme Court.
Anne Kjølseth Ekerholt
Anne Kjølseth Ekerholt
Anne Kjølseth Ekerholt is specialized in transaction advisory services for big clients, including industrial groups and financial institutions. Anne assists both listed and unlisted companies with sales of businesses, acquisitions, integration processes, as well as advising on other matters within business law. She has managed a significant amount of transactions both nationally and internationally, involving complex structures both on the shareholder’s side as well as financially. Anne also assists companies with financial restructuring, including sales of all or part of a business, changes in corporate structure and renegotiating financing. She also has several years of experience as an administrator of estates. Furthermore, Anne is highly competent in and experienced with corporate governance, as well as being a legal advisor on stock exchange. As an advisor, Anne is focused on combining law with commercial and strategic needs.
Arne Seemann Berg
Arne Seemann Berg
Mr Arne Seemann Berg has substantial experience as a lawyer and renders general assistance in business law. In addition to restructuring and insolvency cases, he is working particularly with employment law and media/entertainment law. Mr Seemann Berg is an experienced litigator. Further, he has a number of board positions and is often used as a lecturer. He is also an external examiner/adviser at the Legal Faculty of Law, and has written articles for various journals.
Carl Christian Marthinussen
Carl Christian Marthinussen
Carl Christian Marthinussen provides legal assistance in corporate law with emphasis on company law and transactions, including assistance with acquisitions, reorganizations and consecutive assistance to companies’ administration and board of directors. Carl Christian has a wide experience from due diligence work and contractual negotiations, and has assisted numerous companies including publicly listed enterprises. He obtained his license to practice law in 2010.
Christian Wahl
Christian Wahl
Christian Wahl has substantial experience in national and international taxation and corporate law. He has gained significant experience in relation to domestic and cross-border transactions, restructuring of corporate groups, M&A both inside and outside Norway, and tax due diligence projects. He has assists clients ranging from large multinational Norwegian and non-Norwegian companies in various industries.
Christian Poulsson
Christian Poulsson
Mr Christian Poulsson har 20 years of experience within renewable energy (hydro, wind, solar). His fields of expertise cover all areas of electricity production, sale and transport of renewable energy as well as litigation. Christian is among other things an acknowledged expert on physical and financial power trading, including regulatory matters related to commodity derivatives. In addition, he is an experienced transactions attorney.
Christian Stang Våland
Christian Stang Våland
Mr Christian Stang Våland is a highly experienced litigator. He also provides legal assistance focusing on public law and banking & finance. He represents in particular municipality's, savings banks, and trade- and service industry enterprises, as well as clients requiring litigation expertise. Christian was admitted to the Norwegian Supreme Court in 2004.
Gjermund Mathisen
Gjermund Mathisen
Gjermund primarily practices in the areas of competition law, state aid and EU/EEA law. He has extensive experience with such cases from working at the EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) and the EFTA Court, as well as in the Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice and in the European Commission. Before joining Kvale in 2022, Gjermund held the post as Director of Competition and State Aid at ESA for eight years. In his time as Director, ESA dealt with some of its all-time largest competition cases, and several hundred state aid cases. In his preceding role as a Member of ESA's Legal Service, he represented ESA in some 30 cases before the EFTA Court, the Court of Justice and the General Court in Luxembourg.
Gunnar Stake-Larsen
Gunnar Stake-Larsen
Gunnar Stake-Larsen has long and extensive experience in guiding companies within trade, industry, oil and gas, insurance, and energy law. Stake-Larsen was admitted to the Norwegian Supreme Court in 1988. He is an authorized legal mediator/arbitrator (the Norwegian Bar Association) and authorized arbitrator (the Danish Bar and Law Society).
Ingvild Hanssen-Bauer
Ingvild Hanssen-Bauer
Ingvild Hanssen-Bauer is specialized within intellectual property rights, with a particular focus on patents, trademarks and matters related to the Norwegian Marketing Act, such as protection of trade secrets and unlawful copying. She has extensive litigation experience within these fields of law, and has represented clients in a large number of complex cases, both before the District Court and the Court of Appeal.  Ingvild assists both Norwegian and international clients, especially within the pharmaceutical industry, oil/gas and aquaculture industry. Ingvild also assists our clients with agreements related to intellectual property rights, such as license agreements, research and development agreements, agreements on transfer of intellectual property rights and confidentiality agreements. Her practice also includes assistance related to ICT-contracts and data protection.
Jan-Erik Sverre
Jan-Erik Sverre
Mr Jan-Erik Sverre works primarily within employment law, procedure and legal matters in regard to real estate. He is a legal adviser to the members of the National Federation of House Owners, providing assistance in concrete disputes to its members. Jan-Erik was admitted to the Norwegian Supreme Court in 2016.
Jens Brede
Jens Brede
Mr Jens Brede has since 1988 worked with legal issues related to all segments of the oil- and gas industry, specializing in contractual law issues, especially within the areas of construction contracts, transportation contracts, gas sales contracts, license contracts and service contracts. He has also experience from insurance cases related to the oil- and gas business.
Jostein Moen
Jostein Moen
Jostein Moen heads Kvale's Corporate M&A department. He works mainly with transactions, but assists also in disputes within shipping related disciplines. He has extensive experience with corporate law and issues regarding exchange listed particularly related to purchase and sale of businesses within shipping and offshore. Moen has also wide experience with buying/selling/chartering of ships and offshore vessels. He works also with restructuring of businesses
Kristin Ourom
Kristin Ourom
Kristin Ourom advices in general business law, with emphasis on energy, corporate, bank and finance, contract law hereunder IT/Telecommunication and property law. She has a substantial experience from counselling and procedure within these fields. Kristin holds furthermore several various board posts and is being used a lecturer. Kristin assists in a wide specter of transactions within different business sectors and she has long experience from work in all phases of such transactions, including advisory service linked to transactions, financing, negotiations, determination of transactions structures and drafting of contracts.
Lars Trygve Jenssen
Lars Trygve Jenssen
Mr Lars Trygve Jenssen assists in general business law, with main focus on intellectual property rights, IT and media/entertainment. In addition he has experience within corporate M&A and property as well as previous and current directorships.
Lasse Hagen
Lasse Hagen
Lasse Hagen has 30 years of experience within the shipping and offshore industry. He has substantial experience advising all types of disputes related to maritime law and offshore contracts. He has extensive experience with litigation and has carried out several major arbitration, mediation and court cases in Norway, London and New York. He is also being appointed as arbitrator in arbitral proceedings.
Mari Verling
Mari Verling
Mari Verling is specialized in employment law and regularly assists both Norwegian and foreign clients in a wide range of employment matters. Such matters include i.a. reorganizations/ downsizings, notifications regarding censurable conditions in the undertaking, temporary employment, hiring, transfer of undertakings, staff conflicts, dismissals, issues related to working hours, discrimination matters and pension. Mari has experience with cases under both the Working Environment Act, the Ship Labour Act and the Government Employees Act. Mari also regularly assist in legal disputes before the courts related to both individual and collective employment law.
Marie Vaale-Hallberg
Marie Vaale-Hallberg
Marie Vaale-Hallberg is specialized in intellectual property law, in addition to having solid experience with contracts and contract negotiations. She has broad IP judicial practice, involving research and development agreements, protection and enforcement of trademarks, patents and designs, IP strategies and marketing law. Marie has extensive knowledge of the food industry, especially regarding regulatory issues related to foodstuffs. Marie is frequently used as lecturer in Norway and abroad. She is a member at Food Lawyers Network.
Marius L Andresen
Marius L Andresen
Mr Marius L. Andrese has more than 20 years of experience within corprate law. He specializes in cross border transactions, transactions within the sectors of electricity and renewable energy as well as oil and gas. His practice also includes company and securities laws advising management and directors on their key strategic projects.
Monica Gjerde Sperre
Monica Gjerde Sperre
Monica Gjerde Sperre is specialised in employment law, crew law and dispute resolution. She assists several larger shipping companies and land facilities in the fishery and offshore industry. The experience includes a wide range of individual and collective employment and crew law issues, such as downsizing, reorganisations, suspensions and dismissals. She has extensive experience in collective employment legislation. Monica Gjerde Sperre is also specialised in dispute resolution, and litigates frequently before the courts. She has authored several articles within her fields of expertise, and has experience as a lecturer and external examiner on maritime subjects. She is also an assistant judge advocate for Southern Norway.
Øystein Løken
Øystein Løken
Mr Øystein Løken has more than 15 years of experience with corporate and M&A transactions. He works mainly with capital marked transactions, mergers and acquisitions as well as contract law, corporate law and exchange law. He has substantial experience in assisting companies or their owners in transactions both within and outside the stock exchange.
Per Conradi Andersen
Per Conradi Andersen
Mr Per Conradi Andersen has worked as a lawyer since 1995. He has substantial competence and experience in counselling and procedures within norwegian power supply, IPR (patents, trademarks and cases of copying) and contracts/property. He has experience from public sector, as deputy judge and as lawyer the last 19 years.
Per-Kaare Svendsen
Per-Kaare Svendsen
Mr Per-Kaare Svenden is an internationally recognized TMT-expert and skilled negotiator. He specializes in regulatory communications, TMT-law, competition law and contract negotiations. He is particularly acknowledged for complex regulatory and contractual issues for firms with a strong technological focus.
Steinar Nundal
Steinar Nundal
Mr Steinar Nundal works mainly with regular counselling and transaction counselling to norwegian and foreign businesses in the special fields domestic and international corporate and capital taxation, tax, accounting and corporate law. Steiner further assists companies in issues regarding yearly tax assessment and with audits and complaints.
Thomas Piro
Thomas Piro
Mr Thomas Piro has long experience as a lawyer in the field of restructuring, insolvency and credit assurance. He is often appointed as trustee for bankruptcy estates by Oslo Court of Probate and Enforcement. Mr Piro is also working with purchase and sale of businesses, in addition to rendering gerenal business law advice.
Tom Hugo Ottesen
Tom Hugo Ottesen
Tom Hugo Ottesen Heads Kvale’s restructuring, insolvency and investigation team. He has particular experience in (re)financing, credit security, credit recovery, insolvency and restructuring of hard pressed companies. He is also an experienced arbitrator and is occasionally appointed as arbitrator in insolvency-related disputes. Ottesen is frequently appointed as bankruptcy administrator by Oslo Bankruptcy Court and is appointed as administrator in a number of the largest bankruptcies in Norway each year. Ottesen is Chairman of the Board of Kvale and holds several directorships. He regularly lectures and participates in panel discussions on key emerging areas of the law in bankruptcy, restructuring & insolvency.