Riisa & Co Advokatfirmaet ANS

Real Estate law, tort law

Partner

Chriss Bjorøy has extensive experience in real estate law, where he works particularly with property management and the purchase and sale of commercial property. Bjorøy assists several of Bergen's largest property owners, property managers and banks on a daily basis, and undertakes large and small assignments in real estate legal matters.

As an authorized broker with permission from the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority, Bjorøy also assists businesses and private individuals with transactions and property settlements, including as responsible broker for settlements.

Bjorøy has considerable experience in general commercial law, where he assists in connection with negotiations, transactions and due diligence. He also has good expertise in association law.

Throughout his career, Bjorøy has built up extensive expertise in tort law, where he works particularly with liability insurance, and especially with professional liability such as real estate agent liability and lawyer liability. In addition to this, Bjorøy also has good expertise in personal injury compensation.

Bjorøy works a lot with negotiations and dispute resolution, and has extensive procedural experience from both the District Court and the Court of Appeal.

2012 –

Partner, Advokatfirmaet RIISA

2007-2012

Lawyer, Advokatfirmaet RIISA

2005-2007

Deputy judge, Fjordane District Court

2004-2005

Laywer, Advokatfirmaet RIISA

2002-2004

Assistant lawyer, Advokatfirmaet RIISA

Norwegian. English. French.

Member, The property brokerage committee, Norwegain Bar Association

2002     Cand.jur. University of Bergen

Publications

 Broker's duties when conveying housing under construction, Eiendom Norge, 23.02.17

Interest on client funds - Who owns the interest? Eiendom Norge, 23.02.16

The relationship between the property damage insurance and the security, Eiendom Norge, 17.12.15

Legal mortgage - unregistered encumbrances in real estate of uncertain scope, Eiendomsmegleren 18

Decisions from the courts and the complaints board on estate agents' responsibilities - estate agents' duty to disclose interests and threshold for claims for compensation and fee reduction, Eiendomsmegleren 19