Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS

Employment and pensionDispute resolutionAviation

Partner Sten Foyn is head of the employment law expert group of Haavind’s labour, employment and corporate governance practice area. He has extensive experience related to transfer of undertaking/outsourcing, handling of personnel matters, working hours and working environment issues, whistleblowing, investigation, civil servants law, protection of privacy and international employment law.

Partner Foyn also regularly handles a number of reorganisations/restructurings for Norwegian and international companies and recently has been lead partner in major restructurings necessitated by the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Additionally, during recent years Partner Foyn has established himself as one of the leading litigators in employment law in Norway, including having litigated two Supreme Court cases in the same year (2019). Recent years have also seen him selected by clients as lead lawyer in a number of high-profile whistleblowing cases and he has been appointed head of the 4-panel independent Whistleblowing body of Norwegian Lutheran Mission.

He is a board member of the Norwegian Labour Law Association, the Norwegian Association of Employment Lawyers, and Norway’s Board member to the European Employment Lawyer’s Association (EELA) and has been a member of a reference group in the Ministry of Labour, assessing the rules on whistleblowing.

2002-

Advokatfirmaet Haavind, Partner 2008

2001-2002

Temporary Judge in Oslo District Court

1997-2001

Adviser and Office Manager at the Ombudsman for public administration

1995-1997

Deputy Judge, Drammen District Court

1992-1994

Research Fellow, Centre for EC law, UiO

1991

Assistant at the Attorney General's Office

1990 Cand. jur, UiO