About

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Simonsen Vogt Wiig's Employment Practice

Simonsen Vogt Wiig employment law department assists clients in both private and public sector. 

Human resources departments, legal departments and management of major Norwegian and international companies regularly seek help from the firm’s employment law expertise with restructuring, workforce reductions, transfers of undertakings and individual personnel matters.

Chambers Review

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Employment - Norway

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Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Simonsen Vogt Wiig assists clients with a broad range of individual and collective labour law mandates. The law firm frequently advises on restructuring and downsizing, terminations and dismissals. The team also acts on whistle-blowing cases and employment-related litigation.

Work Highlights

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  • Simonsen Vogt Wiig assisted with a complete reorganisation of the Directorate of Fisheries, advising on employment issues affecting more than 440 employees at more than 20 different locations in Norwway.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Lill Egeland
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Lill Egeland
Head of Employment
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Band 1
Lill Egeland has impressive expertise in temporary lay-offs, downsizing processes, terminations, workforce management and whistle-blowing cases. She handles complex employment litigation and has significant experience advising multinational clients from the tech, retail and pharmaceutical sectors.

Lill Egeland is competent, knowledgeable and has a strong understanding of the business perspective.

Lill takes a holistic approach to employment disputes, combining legal skills with understanding of business impact, while also considering the human aspects.

I've had excellent support from her over the years.

Nicolay Skarning
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Nicolay Skarning
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Band 1
Nicolay Skarning is a highly regarded practitioner handling a range of individual and collective labour law. He is experienced advising on reorganisation and downsizing processes as well as terminations.

Nicolay Skarning is very productive, very communicative and very capable of handling people and teams. He's very good with people.

His best value is in offering good advice on avoiding getting into court - preventative advice. We have avoided court thanks to him.

Thomas Talén
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Thomas Talén
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Band 4

Thomas Talén is an experienced employment law practitioner. He is recognised for adept handling of a range of HR-related issues from restructuring, temporary employment and regulatory compliance to governance and privacy and whistleblowing, which include cross-border element.

Thomas is a very commercially oriented employment law specialist, giving high levels of quality service at the agreed cost.

He has been a valuable trusted adviser for us for many years on employment issues.

I am impressed by his skills, his empathy and his way of handling us as a customer.

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Employment

Lill Egeland
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Lill Egeland
Head of Employment
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Band 1
Nicolay Skarning
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Nicolay Skarning
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Band 1
Thomas Talén
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Thomas Talén
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Band 4

Members

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Arne Oftedal

Catriona Elisabeth Vågen McIntyre

Ingrid Mjøsund

Lill Egeland

Lill Egeland

Head of Department

Magnus Tønnesen Nilstad

Marianne Abeler

Per Chr. Eriksen

Sigrid Fife Søyland

Thomas Talén

Thorgeir Hole

Trine Lise Fromreide

Ørjan Nilsen