Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS

Chairman: Baard Bale

Managing Partner: Sverre Tyrhaug

Number of partners: 75

Number of other lawyers: Approx. 245

Languages: Norwegian, English, Swedish, Danish, German, French, Dutch

Firm Overview:

Established in 1856, Thommessen is considered to be one of Norway’s leading commercial law firms. The firm has offices in Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger and London. The firm provides advice to Norwegian and international companies as well as organisations in the public and private sectors, ranging from SMEs to large multi-national corporations. Thommessen covers all business related fields of law.

Main Areas of Practice:

Thommessen assists businesses with transactions, complex projects and contentious matters in all areas of commercial law. Their robust professional legal expertise is combined with in-depth industry knowledge, and their lawyers stay abreast of trends and developments on an ongoing basis in order to provide advice which facilitates long-term value creation.

Administrative Sanctions and Criminal Liability

Asset Management

Banking & Financing

Compliance

Construction

Consumer Markets

Crisis Management

Data Centres

Data Protection & Cyber Security

Debt Capital Markets

Defence and Security

Dispute Resolution

Employment

Equity Capital Markets

EU/EEA & Competition Law

Finance Regulation

FinTech

Fishery & Aquaculture

Games, Arts, Music, Entertainment and Sports

Insolvency & Restructuring

Insurance

Intellectual Property & Marketing Law

International Trade and Customs

Life Sciences & Health Care

M&A and Corporate Law

Maritime and Offshore Emergency Respons

Oil & Gas

Oil Service

Pensions

Private Equity

Private Wealth, Inheritance and Family Law

PropTech

Public Procurement

Real Estate

Renewable Energy & Infrastructure

Sanctions and Export Control

Shipping and Offshore

Sustainability & Climate Risk

Tax & Duties

Tech M&A

Technology & Digitalisation

The Norwegian Security Act

Transfer Pricing

Venture Capital and Growth Equity

International Work:

Thommessen represent non-Norwegian businesses in Norway, as well as Norwegian businesses internationally. Thommessen has a London office, supplemented by an extensive international network. Thommessen’s team members have comprehensive international experience, and their lawyers have argued numerous cases before international courts and tribunals. Thommessen is also the Norwegian member of Lex Mundi.

Innovation:

Top-of-class project management is a hallmark of the Thommessen approach, and both the firm and their clients experience considerable time savings and improved communication flows in projects where Thommessen’s digital project management solutions are used. Thommessen use a leading tool for interaction and collaboration on their projects and have developed proprietary project management tools. With their own internal digitalisation department at the firm, Thommessen have a short route from idea to product. Teamwork and new forms of collaboration have helped Thommessen establish an innovation culture which they believe has put them on the path towards creating the law firm of the future.