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Anders Stenbrenden
Anders Stenbrenden
Specialist within employment law, data protection law and pension law. Extensive experience in counseling and litigation in all aspects of the individual and collective labour law. Advises employers and employers' organizations on a wide range of labour law issues, including employment contracts, incentive schemes, downsizing, transfer of undertakings, hiring-in, posting and collective agreements. Also advices clients on data protection law, such as how to establish and maintain a internal control system, employer’s right to examine an employee’s email box, control measures etc, and on various questions regarding pension law. Broad employment law litigation experience.
Bjørnar Alterskjær
Bjørnar Alterskjær
Expertise in public procurement and state aid matters. EU law, EEA law, State aid law, Competition law, Public procurement law, free movement of goods, services, labour and capital, business law. Bjørnar has been Deputy Director of the legal department in the EFTA Surveillance Authority and was also for an extended period Acting Director of the department. He has outstanding experience in litigation before the EFTA and the EU Courts, having represented the EFTA Surveillance Authority in over 20 cases in almost all fields of law covered by the EEA Agreement and the EU treaties. Several of the cases concerned questions within the field of state aid and public procurement. He has also worked extensively with questions pertaining to the free movement of goods, services, labour and capital, in addition to the rules on establishment, competition law, labour law and financial services. Further he has acted as Hearing Officer for competition cases in the EFTA Surveillance Authority. Alterskjær has been Manging Partner in Kluge since 2018.
Christian Wille Kaisen
Christian Wille Kaisen
For more than 25 years, Wille Kaisen has assisted Norwegian and foreign companies and corporations with mergers acquisitions, restructuring operation, emissions and flotations. He has also assisted in connectionwith the establishment of securities’ funds and private equity funds.Kaisen has on a regular basis advised and assisted public entities and institutions in processes related to restructuring and or privatization in fields like energy, healthcare, research and education and finance.
Christina Elisabeth Lavold
Christina Elisabeth Lavold
Christina Lavold's practice focuses on corporate/M&A. She holds a master of laws from the University of Oslo, where she specialized in corporate law and tax law. Lavold works mainly with private M&A and general legal advice within corporate law and contract law. Her work includes assisting both financial and industrial clients throughout all stages of the transaction process, from initial negotiations, to signing and closing. Lavold has experience with project management on both buy- and sell-side in complex M&A transactions, including structured sales processes. She has experience within a number of different sectors, including private equity, construction, technology and energy.
Frode Olsen
Frode Olsen
Specialises in mergers and acquisitions, corporate law as well as domestic and international tax. In addition to advising on and negotiating agreements and other transaction related documentation, he has a long experience with transaction tax advice, especially where a human capital element is prevalent. He especially deals with TMT and human capital intensive businesses such as transactions involving consulting firms. In addition to his qualification as a lawyer, Olsen also possesses an MBA from Bocconi.
Jan Magne Isaksen
Jan Magne Isaksen
Commercial dispute resolution within a range of legal areas, and has argued several high profile cases for both the District Courts and the Appeal Courts, and one case for the Supreme Court. Also assists his clients in cases regarding enforcement, securing of evidence, temporary injunction and arrest. Also acts as an ordinary legal adviser for clients within several industries and legal areas, in particular related to issues within contractual law, company law and construction law.
Lars Albert Jøstensen
Lars Albert Jøstensen
Mainly focuses on insurance, reinsurance, action for damages and dispute resolution. He also has extensive domestic, arbitration and international dispute resolution experience with commercial contracts in a number of industry sectors. Extensive experience with respect to complex claims and disputes under insurance policies and reinsurance contracts. Frequently assists in handling cyber incidents ("breach response") and coverage claims under cyber insurance policies and also has particular experience in relation to director and officers' claims (D&O), financial lines and W&I insurance matters. Has worked in the London market and assists international insurers and claims handling companies with the development of policy wordings in the Norwegian market.
Matias Apelseth
Matias Apelseth
Matias works with commercial property, building projects, and contract matters – primarily for private developers. For developers, Matias particularly deals with the phases from implementation of zoning plans, including development agreements, to setting up and executing building projects/constructions and the sales process, which includes, among other things, final account and defect cases, as well as assistance in building matters. Matias regularly appears in court, and he has considerable experience with dispute resolution for actors in the property industry.
Samuel Skrunes
Samuel Skrunes
Leads the construction law group in Bergen. Extensive experience with advisory service for projects both onshore and offshore. He has assisted builders, contractors and advisers, both with contracting as well as follow-up and final settlement, and legal processes. After working 7 years, mainly with contract work, property transactions and public procurement, he has worked 4 years with upstream supplier contracts as legal counsel in Statoil. He has thorough knowledge of contracts within the oil industry for the FC/EPC/EPCI/EPMA, removal and dismantlement, supply-, preparedness- and installation vessels, helicopter contracts and other service and delivery contracts. Samuel has international experience from projects in Africa and Brazil. He also has experience from various transactions related to property, projects and companies.