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Arntzen de Besche Advokatfirma AS

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Arntzen de Besche Advokatfirma AS

Arntzen de Besche Advokatfirma AS

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Provided by Arntzen de Besche Advokatfirma AS
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Firm Details:
Chairman:
Eilif S Koch
Managing Partner: Håvard Sandnes
Number of partners: 58
Number of lawyers: 140
Languages: English, Farsi, French, German, Scandinavian languages, Spanish

Firm Overview:
Arntzen de Besche delivers solution-oriented legal services to Norwegian and international businesses, organisations and public authorities. Arntzen de Besche has years of experience in international transactions on behalf of Norwegian companies abroad and foreign companies in Norway. Through the firm’s collaboration with some of the world’s leading law firms, Arntzen de Besche offers clients a well-organised global network of legal experts.

Main Areas of Practice
Banking & Finance:
5 partners and a total of 12 fee-earners

Arntzen de Besche has for a long time served as adviser to both Norwegian and foreign clients, and has been engaged in preparing official reports and in legislative work.

Contact: Trond Kildal
Tel: +47 982 94 632
Email: [email protected]

Commercial Property & Construction:
13 partners and a total of 26 fee earners

Arntzen de Besche has an extensive practice within commercial property and is involved in most of the largest transactions in this area.

Contact: Thomas Øslebø
Tel: +47 982 94 547
Email: [email protected]

Corporate & M&A:
13 partners and a total of 27 fee earners

Arntzen de Besche offers advice on all aspects of corporate law. Within the area of M&A and securities law, the firm’s transactions range from small private acquisitions to large domestic and cross-border takeovers, often as advisers to domestic and international investment banks and investors.

Contact: Knut Martinsen
Tel: +47 977 13 237
Email: [email protected]

Employment:
10 partners and a total of 23 fee earners

Arntzen de Besche is a leading employment law firm with experienced and dedicated employment law experts within all fields of employment law, including employment litigation, pensions, privacy protection, collective employment law, maritime and public sector employment law.

Contact: Frode Martin Toftevåg
Tel: +47 920 45 476
Email: [email protected]

EU/EEA Law & Competition:
4 partners and a total of 10 fee earners

Arntzen de Besche has extensive experience within merger control, cartels, abuse of dominant position, state aid, public procurement and the four freedoms. Experience from the Norwegian Competition Authority, the EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) and other authorities.

Contact: Svein Terje Tveit
Tel: +47 950 62 685
Email: [email protected]

Fisheries & Aquaculture:
4 partners and a total of 10 fee earners

Arntzen de Besche is a leading firm in the sector and has extensive experience assisting on all aspects including different types of transactions, dispute resolution, public regulation, day-to-day operations as well as reorganisation and generational change.

Contact: Ole Skeidsvoll Moe
Tel: +47 909 51 191
Email: [email protected]

Litigation & Arbitration:
16 partners and a total of 30 fee earners

Arntzen de Besche has special expertise and extensive experience in dispute resolution and counselling professional liability. Long experience from law firms, the Office of the Attorney General, the EFTA Court and the ECJ and as judges of the ordinary courts. Several of the firm’s lawyers act as arbitrators on a regular basis.

Contact: Eivind Landmark Tandrevold
Tel: +47 982 94 643
Email: [email protected]

Oil, Gas & Energy:
8 partners and a total of 19 fee earners

Arntzen de Besche’s attorneys have been preferred Counsel for oil companies on the Norwegian Continental Shelf for 40 years, and are today advising international majors and other industrial players, governments and national oil companies on all aspects of the oil and energy sector.

Contact: Karl Erik Navestad
Tel: +47 982 94 566
Email: [email protected]

Renewable Energy & Climate
5 partners and a total of 9 fee earners

Arntzen de Besche advices some of the largest Scandinavian power producers regarding their Norwegian operations concerning gas to power, renewables and Kyoto mechanisms. The firm’s experience also includes climate change and pioneering legal work related to carbon capture and storage.

Contact: Odd-Harald Berg Wasenden
Tel: +47 900 76 908
Email: [email protected]

Restructuring & Insolvency
6 partners and a total of 10 fee earners

Arntzen de Besche has extensive experience in handling cases both assisting companies with problems and creditors seeking optimal solutions. The firm has been involved in some of the largest and most complex restructurings in Norway in the last couple of years.

Contact: Trond Kildal
Tel: +47 982 94 632
Email: [email protected]

Shipping & Offshore:
7 partners and a total of 13 fee earners

Arntzen de Beche assists some of the largest players on the Norwegian Continential Shelf and leading banks in litigations, transactions, project development, financing, taxation and intellectual property matters.

Contact: Karl Erik Navestad
Tel: +47 982 94 566
Email: [email protected]

Technology & Innovation:
3 partners and a total of 5 fee earners

Arntzen de Besche provides legal counselling to both national and international clients within the technology, media and telecommunications sectors. Wide-ranging experience assisting in establishing protection strategies in order to maximise the commercial and strategic value of the client’s intellectual property.

Contact: Andreas Nordby
Tel: +47 994 57 460
Email: [email protected]

Tax:
2 partners and a total of 5 fee earners

Arntzen de Besche has a strong tax practice and several of the tax lawyers are considered to be among the leading tax practitioners in Norway covering all aspects of domestic and international tax and VAT, planning and dispute resolution.

Contact: Eyvind Sandvik
Tel: +47 982 94 518
Email: [email protected]

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Arntzen de Besche Advokatfirma AS rankings

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Norway
Banking & Finance
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Banking & Finance
3
Banking & Finance
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Trond Kildal
3
Trond Kildal
3
Band 3
Banking & Finance: Regulatory
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
Karl Rosén
2
Karl Rosén
2
Band 2
Capital Markets: Debt
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Capital Markets: Debt
2
Capital Markets: Debt
2
Band 2
Lawyers
Vidar Løhre
2
Vidar Løhre
2
Band 2
Capital Markets: Equity
1 Department
Department
Capital Markets: Equity
3
Capital Markets: Equity
3
Band 3
Competition/Antitrust
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Competition/Antitrust
3
Competition/Antitrust
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Stein Ove Solberg
2
Stein Ove Solberg
2
Band 2
Svein Terje Tveit
3
Svein Terje Tveit
3
Band 3
Competition/Antitrust: Public Procurement
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Competition/Antitrust: Public Procurement
2
Competition/Antitrust: Public Procurement
2
Band 2
Lawyers
Gro Amdal
2
Gro Amdal
2
Band 2
Construction
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Construction
3
Construction
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Stian Heimdal
U
Stian Heimdal
U
Up and Coming
Wenche Maartmann-Moe
U
Wenche Maartmann-Moe
U
Up and Coming
Corporate/M&A
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Corporate/M&A
3
Corporate/M&A
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Per A Dagslet
3
Per A Dagslet
3
Band 3
Knut Martinsen
4
Knut Martinsen
4
Band 4
Dispute Resolution
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Dispute Resolution
3
Dispute Resolution
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Terje Granvang
3
Terje Granvang
3
Band 3
Vidar Riksfjord
U
Vidar Riksfjord
U
Up and Coming
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