Wikborg Rein

Karoline Moen Brunstad

Karoline is specialized within employment law and labour law. Karoline has broad experience assisting Norwegian and international clients within various industries in both the private and public sector. Karoline assist clients with a wide spectre of employment law related matters and processes, including downscaling, termination of employments, re-organizations, transfer of undertakings, transactions, and legal counselling related to employment contracts, working hours, holiday/holiday pay, pension, temporary employment, personnel hire, whistleblowing, harassment cases etc. She also works dispute resolution through negotiations and litigation before the courts, and has previously worked as a deputy judge.

Christian Backe

Christian is head of the firm's Employment law practice. He assists Norwegian and international clients with advice, dispute resolution and litigation in matters concerning employment law and pension. Christian works with a wide range of employment and pension law issues. Among other things, he has extensive experience in assisting employers in connection with reorganization, including business transfers and downsizing. He also regularly assists in matters related to temporary labor and hiring conditions, and has considerable experience in assisting employers in handling whistleblowing cases. Christian assists clients in various industries within private and public sector. Christian is recognized for his work as an employment law lawyer in, among others, Chambers, Legal 500 and Finansavisen. "He is very good at understanding exactly what we want and then making a plan together with us on how to achieve it. He is able to strategise, plan, and then provide hands-on execution." Chambers & Partners