CMS Kluge

Specialises in indirect tax and real estate.

One of Norway’s leading procurement lawyers. Spesialices in procurement law, contract law, as well as dispute resolution.

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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.

Norwegian and internationl tax law, including the special tax regimes for petrleum and for shipping.

Specialises in real estate and contract law.

Specialises in large IT- and technology procurment projects and public procurement law.  

Construction/ real estate, dispute resolution.

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.

Real Estate (Sale and purchase, leasehold and development, Dispute resolution, Real Estate Law), Dispute resolution and litigation

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.

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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.

Specialices in all EEA/EU law matters, particularly related to state aid, competition, financial markets regulation and the fundamental freedoms.

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

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

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Expertise in dispute resolution and counselling within public procurement and contract law

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Construction law specialist, as well as contract law and dispute resolution.

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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.

Corporate (Mergers and Aquisitions, Company Law), Real Estate (Sale and purchase, leasehold and development, Real Estate Law)

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.

Area of Expertise: Contract law, Energy law (oil and gas, offshore supplier industry), license transactions, fabrication (offshore and onshore construction) and dispute resolution.

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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.

Property (buying, selling, leasing and development), construction law, corporate finance (mergers and acquisitions)

Specialises in Norwegian and international contracts law, in particular within finance, corporate, construction and engineering, as well as dispute dispution and litigation.

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Specializes in construction law, public procurement law and dispute resolution/litigation.  

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Intellectual property expert with long experience as a key representative for the Norwegian and international music industry in Norway

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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.

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.

Employment Law Specialist. Works primarily as a consultant and on litigation assignments, covering all kinds of issues related to employment law and HR.

Specialist skills in tax law, transfer pricing, accounting law and valuation in various legal contexts.

Construction, Dispute resolution and litigation, Public procurement

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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.

Specialist on negotiation processes and contract structures within commercial property leases, transfers and development

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.

Real Estate (Sale and purchase, leasehold and development, financial settlement), corporate (Mergers and Acquisitions, Company Law, Corporate Governance).

Corporate / M&A specialist

Real Estate (sale and purchase, leasehold and development, Planning and building, Dispute resolution, Real Estate Law, Compulsory Purchase), Construction (Construction)

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.

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.

Core competence from the energy/ oil & gas industry with extensive experience from the industry. Specialized expertise in contract law.

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.

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.

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.

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Real Estate (Sale and purchase, leasehold and development, Planning and building, Dispute resolution, Real Estate Law)

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Tax law specialist, including flexible tax and compnay law solutions for group restructuring, in connection with transactions and in property development projects.      

Extensive experience within real estate, property development and transactions/M&A. Spesializes in lease agreements, property law, contract law and company law.

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