Employment
Europe Guide 2024 : Norway
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About
Provided by Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS
Our lawyers provide dispute resolution and advisory services in all areas of labour law. We place great emphasis on being knowledgeable about the client's business, and providing clear and commercial advice tailored to the client's needs.
We provide assistance within the entire field of labour law and have long and broad experience across industries. We provide advice related to hiring, ongoing personnel matters, competition clauses, layoffs and staff reductions. Furthermore, we have extensive experience with various incentive schemes, pensions, transactions, business transfers and collective wage agreements.
Our lawyers are also good advisers when companies face more complicated labour law issues. We have extensive experience in negotiations and labour law disputes before the courts, and have assisted with several large high-profiled Norwegian labour law cases in recent years.
Our clients include large Norwegian and international companies, and we regularly provide cross-border advice. The department is highly ranked in the national and international law firm ratings.
Chambers Review
Thommessen is a strong choice for transactional employment law as well as reorganisation and downsizing processes. It additionally advises companies on pensions, performance and disciplinary mandates as well as terminations and whistle-blowing cases, including litigation and mediation proceedings. The law firm also has expertise in discrimination and whistle-blower cases.
Work Highlights
- Thommessen assisted Kahoot! with a court case regarding termination of employment due to sexual harassment.
Strengths
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"Thommessen's team has very good knowledge of the market and is up to date on all relevant topics. The lawyers are service-minded and always available."
"The employment law team is capable of handling a very broad spectrum of tasks, including very complex cases. The lawyers also have very good negotiation skills."
"Thommessen's team has very good knowledge of the market and is up to date on all relevant topics. The lawyers are service-minded and always available."
"The employment law team is capable of handling a very broad spectrum of tasks, including very complex cases. The lawyers also have very good negotiation skills."
Notable Practitioners
Tron Dalheim heads Thommessen's employment team and often assists companies with a whole host of individual and collective labour issues, including whistle-blowing cases, reorganisations and dismissals.
"Tron Dalheim is highly able to handle very complex cases. In addition to his excellent legal skills within employment law, he is very good at involving the client and listening to their views, while being clear with his advice. He has excellent business understanding, always delivers on time and is a very good negotiator."
Stein Kimsås-Otterbech is experienced advising on HR processes, workforce management and disciplinary matters. He is also active in contentious mandates such as whistle-blowing cases.
"Stein Kimsås-Otterbech is able to bring solid, practical advice."
New to the rankings, Håkon Berge is active in a wide range of employment mandates, including bargaining agreements, reorganisations, downsizing and dismissals. He also handles contentious matters such as whistle-blowing cases.
"Håkon Berge is hard-working and always finds good solutions - a real problem solver."
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