TMT
Leveraging the firm’s international network of offices, Advokatfirmaet Schjødt’s TMT practice has demonstrable strength in cross-border work, acting for international clients. IP expert Thomas Hagen oversees the team, which also includes ‘excellent’ telecoms specialist Kaare Risung and the ’highly skilled’ Eva Jarbekk, who leads on data privacy matters. Inge Kristian Brodersen and Halvor Manshaus take point on IT contracts and contentious mandates and attract praise for their ‘great strategic skills, experience and deep knowledge of the industry.’ Also in the core group are the ‘phenomenal’ Øyvind Eidissen and transactional and regulatory specialist Jeppe Songe-Møller.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘The Schjødt team is second to none in the region. Standout practitioners with great industry knowledge.’
‘Øyvind Eidissen is phenomenal. He is thorough and swift, considers both the legal and commercial implications and understands that to the client everything is inevitably a matter of risk vs. reward. Sound and no-nonsense legal advice that enables the client to act efficiently and make a well-founded business decision is key.’
‘Excellent practical and commercial advice. They have made an effort to know our business and provide advice tailored to that, and the intended stakeholders.’
‘Kaare Risung is an excellent lawyer who thinks outside the legal box and is prepared to always give constructive and useful commercial advice and put himself on the line to ensure that he is supporting us in the way we require. I have worked with Kaare for years, and he is absolutely one of the team now!’
‘Halvor Manshaus is an exceptional lawyer who is extremely bright and particularly astute in providing innovative and strategic advice to clients in complex and challenging TMT cases. He is an exceptional advocate and calm under pressure.'
‘Eva Jarbekk leads the firm's privacy and data protection team. Eva knows the regulatory landscape very well and is highly skilled and pleasant to work with. She has done outstanding work for us.’
‘Øyvind Eidissen is an outstanding representative for the firm. He works together with you in a smooth and efficient way with solid knowledge of the matter in discussion combined with an innovative approach, seeking solutions to difficult subjects.’
‘Inge Brodersen and Halvor Manshaus are excellent advisers within technology and dispute resolution, with great strategic skills, experience and deep knowledge of the industry.’
Key clients
- Apple
- Meta
- Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)
- SpaceX
- Motorola Solutions
- Strex Payment AS
- Statistics Norway
- Norid AS
- Samsung Electronics
- Cognite
- Oda
- Altibox
- Verdens Gang AS (VG)
- DocuSign
- Fjordkraft AS
- Grindr LLC
Work highlights
- Acted for Dr. Craig Wright, who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin, in several disputes.
- Assisted CEPI with its implementation and use of ChatGPT and other AI software.
- Handling all privacy questions and related IT matters for Ruter.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Thomas Hagen