Alexander With
Specialises in indirect tax and real estate.
CMS Kluge
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Alf Amund Gulsvik
One of Norway’s leading procurement lawyers. Spesialices in procurement law, contract law, as well as dispute resolution.
Amund Noss
Litigation and dispute resolution, including cases related to tax law, company law, energy law, contract law and public administration law.
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.
Anders Heieren
Norwegian and internationl tax law, including the special tax regimes for petrleum and for shipping.
Anders Elling Petersen Johansen
Specialises in real estate and contract law.
Anne Buan
Specialises in large IT- and technology procurment projects and public procurement law.
Arild Skage
Construction/ real estate, dispute resolution.
Asle Bjelland
Dispute Resolution/litigation expert, specializing in energy, industry and infrastructure. More than 20 years of experience as a lawyer within resolution and litigation in all courts and in arbitration. Previously been a judge and is regualary used as a mediator and arbitrator.
Belinda T Ingebrigtsen
Real Estate (Sale and purchase, leasehold and development, Dispute resolution, Real Estate Law), Dispute resolution and litigation
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 Galtung
Specialises in dispute resolution, administrative law and constuction law. Work also includes coprorate law, in particulal i relation to conversion of public enterprises.
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.
Clemens Kerle
Specialices in all EEA/EU law matters, particularly related to state aid, competition, financial markets regulation and the fundamental freedoms.
Dag Thomas Hansson
Experienced financing lawyer assisting our clients in the negotiations and documentation of a broad range of financing solutions. He is specialised in leveraged and acquisition finance and acts for investors, borrowers and lenders (banks and others). In recent years he has been instructed by a number of direct lenders in connection with acquisitions in Norway. He has also acted on several significant restructuring deals in the Norwegian market
Einar Johan Espeland
Bbroad experience of legal issues related to real estate, such as sale and purchase of real estate companies, closing, business lease agreements, planning and building law and general property law
Espen Nyland
General business law/dispute resolution, in particular within Real estate, Construction and Building law.
Fredrik Aadahl
Expertise in dispute resolution and counselling within public procurement and contract law
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.
Grethe Gulhaug
Construction law specialist, as well as contract law and dispute resolution.
Hans Ingvald Stensholdt
Company law, restructuring and insolvency. In addition considerable experience with litigation assignments before Norwegian courts and arbitration, and is admitted to the Norwegian Supreme Court. Also experience in monetary claim law and guarantee law, whereby he assists financial institutions and companies on an ongoing basis through advisory services and litigation.
Henrik Nordling
Expertise in Competition Law, EEA Law and anti-corruption.
Ida Johanne Bohmann
Part of CMS Kluge’s department for Corporate/M&A, works primarily with both domestic and cross-border financing transactions, syndicated financing, financing of acquisitions and project financing.
Inger Hygen
Corporate (Mergers and Aquisitions, Company Law), Real Estate (Sale and purchase, leasehold and development, Real Estate Law)
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.
Joar Kalsaas
Area of Expertise: Contract law, Energy law (oil and gas, offshore supplier industry), license transactions, fabrication (offshore and onshore construction) and dispute resolution.
Johan Svedberg
Specialises in M&A, company law, capital market law, financing, restructuring, reorganization, general contract law, labor law, as well as international oil and gas and fisheries regulatory law.
Johan Krabbe-Knudsen
Employment Law Spesialist. Covers all areas within labour law and assists a large number of major listed global and national companies, mainly within the oil & gas industry, as well as major employers in the construction industry and the public sector.
Knut Prestvik
Property (buying, selling, leasing and development), construction law, corporate finance (mergers and acquisitions)
Knut Anders Sannes
Specialises in Norwegian and international contracts law, in particular within finance, corporate, construction and engineering, as well as dispute dispution and litigation.
Kyrre Tangen Andersen
Specialises within ICT/IP law, Energy law, as well as Ligitation. Broad practice that involves ongoing assistance, with a special focus on IP management and strategy, project execution related to the development of oil fields and dispute assignments.
Lars Ivar Nyland
Specializes in construction law, public procurement law and dispute resolution/litigation.
Marco Lilli
Employment Law Specialist. Advices employers and employers' organisations on a wide range of labour law issues, including employment contracts, incentive schemes, downsizing, transfer of undertakings, hiring-in and collective agreements. Regularly advices several of the largest employers in Norway, within the private as well as the public sector. Assisted in a wide range of cross-border transactions and regularly performs such work in teams with lawyers from other jurisdictions.
Marte Thorsby
Intellectual property expert with long experience as a key representative for the Norwegian and international music industry in Norway
Naja Dannow
Real Estate Transactions, Corporate (Mergers and Aquisitions, Company Law, Corporate Governance).
Nicolai René Nielsen
Specialist within Construction law and public procurement. Extensive knowledge of contracts used in construction and construction related consultancies, and has experience with all of contract models. Nielsen also has considerable dispute resolution experience, and regularly represents clients in both arbitration and ordinary courts, as well as all types of mediation.
Nils Kristian Lie
Specilizes in employment law, complience and legal aspects connected to pension. Expertise in all types of employment law, especially restructuring- and erdundancy processes, transfer of undetakings and HSE related questions, as well as employment issues related to public tender prosesses and collective employmet law.
Nina Gundersen Sandnes
Employment Law Specialist. Works primarily as a consultant and on litigation assignments, covering all kinds of issues related to employment law and HR.
Oddleif Torvik
Specialist skills in tax law, transfer pricing, accounting law and valuation in various legal contexts.
Olav Hasaas
Corporate, Energy (Oil and Gas, Wind Power, Offshore supplier industry, Renewable energy)
Olav Todnem
Construction, Dispute resolution and litigation, Public procurement
Ove Vanebo
Works primarily with labour law, including civil servant law and welfare law, as well as privacy law, intellectual property law, property and litigation. A publicly and locally elected politician in his former career, and therefore very familiar with political processes and methods.
Øystein Henriksen
Specialist on negotiation processes and contract structures within commercial property leases, transfers and development
Per Sigvald Wang
Assists clients in major, complex construction, infrastructure, energy and industry disputes. Substantial experience within dispute resolution and litigation, and is admitted to the Supreme Court.
Petter Schmidt
Real Estate (Sale and purchase, leasehold and development, financial settlement), corporate (Mergers and Acquisitions, Company Law, Corporate Governance).
Reid Fiskaa
Corporate / M&A specialist
Reidar Sverdrup
Real Estate (sale and purchase, leasehold and development, Planning and building, Dispute resolution, Real Estate Law, Compulsory Purchase), Construction (Construction)
Ronny Rosenvold
Specialices in EU/EEA law, works primarily with public procurement and state aid. Extensive experience in advising suppliers and public authorities, and further with trade compliance, competition law, and general guidance on the EEA Agreement.
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.
Siv Madland
Core competence from the energy/ oil & gas industry with extensive experience from the industry. Specialized expertise in contract law.
Snorre Haukali
Snorre Haukali specialises in corporate law, securities law, mergers and acquisitions, financing and contract law. He is an experienced and highly-respected advisor, negotiator and corporate lawyer and has during recent years represented several Norwegian listed companies in the area of refinancing and restructuring.
Steffen Kvisler
Substantial experience with dispute resolution and litigation, specialises in construction law, general contract law and tort law, with focus on the construction industry. Admitted to the Supreme Court in 2011.
Steffen Asmundsson
Partner, Attorney-at-law, admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court. Working with litigation, contracts (commercial contracts, incl. construction, IT) and public law for both private and public clients.
Tarjei Pedersen
Real Estate (Sale and purchase, leasehold and development, Planning and building, Dispute resolution, Real Estate Law)
Thomas Rieber-Mohn
Intellectual property law, corporate law, litigation. Advises companies and authorities on all types of IPR-matters within a broad range of industries, including oil & gas, technology, industry, media & entertainment, software, design & communication, etc. Extensive experience on contracts and dispute resolution/litigation. An experienced and highly respected advisor, negotiator and litigator.
Torill Hasle Aamelfot
Tax law specialist, including flexible tax and compnay law solutions for group restructuring, in connection with transactions and in property development projects.
Torkjel Valland
Extensive experience within real estate, property development and transactions/M&A. Spesializes in lease agreements, property law, contract law and company law.
Trond Selvikvåg
Real Estate (Sale and purchase, leasehold and development, Planning and building, Financial settlement, Dispute resolution, Real Estate Law, Compulsory Purchase), Construction (Construction), Dispute resolution and litigation