Dispute Resolution

Disputes are an inevitable part of business. Navigating them successfully requires strategic planning, commitment, ability to think outside the box, and sometimes to challenge precedents and accepted norms. Our team assists clients with all aspects of dispute resolution across every major commercial area. We combine expertise in dispute resolution with innovative approaches to enable our clients to manage risk and achieve the best outcomes. Our large team consists of several of Norway’s most experienced and renowned dispute resolution lawyers, complemented by a strong group of talented younger lawyers. Together, they create a dynamic and diverse team that ensures high quality, responsiveness, and pioneering solutions.

We place a strong emphasis on early-stage assessment, scenario planning and clear strategic advice. This enables our clients to position themselves advantageously from the outset. If necessary, we will execute aggressive strategies. Whether through negotiations, mediation, arbitration, or litigation, we forcefully protect and advance our clients’ interests.

By collaborating closely with specialists across our firm, we draw on deep industry-specific knowledge in sectors such as energy, intellectual property (IP), technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT), competition, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), employment, shipping, insurance, insolvency, and tax. This integrated approach allows us to handle all types of disputes, including the most complex, contentious, and high-stakes ones.

Consequently, we are at all times entrusted with many of Norway’s most significant cases.

Selected matters:

• Representing NHIndustries in a EUR 4 billion claim by the Norwegian State over the State’s termination of the contract for procurement of NH90 helicopters.
• Representing Aker Capital in a multi-billion shareholder dispute following the 2023 restructuring of Solstad Offshore.
• Representing Norwegian Air Shuttle in a highly complex and high value case regarding our client’s obligation to surrender its ETS emission allowances following a court sanctioned reconstruction plan in 2021.
• Representing DNB against former minority shareholders of Sbanken in a complex appraisal case.
• Representing an operator on the Norwegian Continental Shelf in a high-stakes arbitration regarding sale and purchase of LNG.
• Representing If Skadeforsikring in a high-profile dispute after the fire at the parking garage at Sola airport in 2020.
• Representing a pharmaceutical company in a multi-billion international arbitration under SCC rules related to an earn-out dispute.