SPECIALISING
IN BUSINESS LAW
Advokatfirmaet Rønning-Hansen AS focuses exclusively on business law
and we offer specialized services to investors and corporations
COMMERCIAL FOCUS
Our main objective is always to help ensure that those we represent
achieve the best commercial solution available
QUALITY AND SERVICE
OF THE HIGHEST STANDARD
Our services shall meet the high standards that investors and corporations
should demand from their lawyer
LEGAL ADVISORY
TRANSACTIONS
CONTRACTS
Real Estate and Property Development
FISHERY AND AQUACULTURE
INTELLECTUAL PRoPERTY
ENERGY
PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
EMPLOYMENT
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
LEGAL ADVISORY
Providing high quality legal advice to our principals on an ongoing basis is a mainstay of our business. In our view, the ability to combine legal expertise with commercial understanding is a prerequisite to succeed as a business law firm.
For us, this implies that our main objective when providing legal services is always to help ensure that our principals achieve the best commercial solutions available to them. For several of our principals we provide strategic advice in addition to more traditional legal advice.
In addition to providing high quality advisory services that meet the demands of professional investors and corporations, we place great emphasis on efficient delivery and excellent service for the benefit of those we represent.
TRANSACTIONS
We have extensive experience and knowledge from our lawyers' work as legal advisors in national and international transactions within a wide range of businesses, including real property and construction, oil and gas, renewable energy, retail, the aviation industry, information technology, fishery and aquaculture and private equity deals.
Our firm advises industrial and institutional players in all phases of acquisitions and divestures of shares and assets, as well as for all types of equity transactions. We also assist with restructuring, merger and demerger of companies.
CONTRACTS
To conclude, adhere to and enforce more or less complex contracts form a central part of the day-to-day business of most corporations. Thus, for a business law firm such as us it is essential to have the legal and commercial expertise and experience required to provide practical advice through the lifetime of a contractual relationship.
We have extensive experience with assisting investors and corporations with negotiations, assessment, advice and enforcement of contracts within a wide range of areas.
REAL PROPERTY AND CONSTRUCTION
Projects relating to real estate development and –transactions are a central part of the region's private sector. To successfully complete such projects one normally requires business law expertise pertaining to regulatory and commercial issues.
We assist local, national and international property developers and other players in all phases of housing- and commercial projects. In addition to having the required legal expertise and experience to assist with such projects we have local knowledge and a network of contacts that enable us to give practical advice for the benefit of our principals.
FISHERY AND AQUACULTURE
Seafood is Norway's second largest export after oil and gas. For our firm it has been regarded as important to gain considerable experience and expertise within an industry viewed by many as essential for Norway and in particular for the region. We believe we have been successful in achieving this, something that is recognized by the fact that we are considered by some to have among Norway's leading lawyers within the business of fishery and aquaculture.
We assist corporations within fishery and aquaculture in all parts of their business, including advice pertaining to regulatory and contractual issues.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Through innovation and business creation several of our principals have established intellectual property in the form of knowledge and competence ("know-how"), brand-building as well as developing unique products. Intellectual property often constitutes the most important asset of the business and the value of such rights may be substantial. Such values must be maintained in an appropriate manner both in relation to business partners, customers and competitors. It is therefore essential for many of our principals to ensure that their intellectual property is adequately protected against the exploitation by others, but at the same time not limiting its own business' freedom to operate.
We advise our principals on all aspects of intellectual property law, ranging from the establishment, protection and exploitation of intellectual property, through to preparing a wide range of contracts and agreements relating to the exploitation of intellectual property rights, such as licence agreements, franchise agreements and distribution agreements.
ENERGY
We provide advisory services and assist in disputes related to production, transmission, distribution and trading of energy, including district heating.
The Energy Act, the Industrial Licensing Act and the Act relating to regulations of watercourses constitute the central legal framework. We also provide services relating to line development, property acquisition, grid connection conditions and water rights.
PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
For many of our principals public procurement constitutes an important part of their business. Public procurement is subject to a strict legal framework that all parties involved must comply with.
We assist our principals in all phases of processes involving public procurement, including in the preparation of offers and negotiation and closing of contracts.
EMPLOYMENT
We assist corporations with advice, negotiations and dispute resolution relating to labor law. Our services include preparation and assessment of employment agreements, assessment of employment issues in connection with acquisitions and divestures of businesses, preparation of all forms of incentive schemes for employees (co-investment, bonus- and options schemes), non-compete and non-solicitation agreements, personnel manuals and all issues arising in connection with the termination of employment.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
We assist our principals when they are involved in disputes. When providing such assistance our main objective is to help ensure that our principals achieve the best result available to them under the prevailing commercial and legal circumstances.
It is our experience that in most cases our principal should try to seek an amicable solution outside the courts. The reason for this is that a legal process before the courts or a tribunal ties up resources for the parties – resources that more often than not could have been used more appropriately.
If negotiations are unsuccessful or not an option at all, we assist our principals with litigation before the ordinary courts and tribunals.
CLOSE
We offer business law services with main focus on the following areas:
EXPERTISE
OUR TEAM
Associate MNA
LISA CHARLOTTE JAKOBSEN
INGER A. JENSEN
Senior Lawyer MNA
Assistant
ANN-KARIN MATHISEN
Partner
Odd-Terje G. Elde
Associate MNA
THALE BYBERG KARLSEN
Mobile:
+47 911 26 511
E-mail:
odd.terje@r-hansen.no
Mobile:
+47 970 72 334
E-mail:
lisa@r-hansen.no
Mobile:
+47 480 31 419
E-mail:
inger@r-hansen.no
Mobile:
+47 913 34 897
E-mail:
thale@r-hansen.no
Mobile:
+47 980 03 020
E-mail:
regnskap@r-hansen.no
Partner
Trond Skogvoll
HARALD SLETTEN
Partner
JON ARILD STRAND
Senior Lawyer MNA
RODE S. RØNNING-HANSEN
Managing Partner
Mobile:
+47 957 43 185
E-mail:
rode@r-hansen.no
Mobile:
+47 482 01 882
E-mail:
trond@r-hansen.no
Mobile:
+47 917 69 804
E-mail:
harald@r-hansen.no
Mobile:
+47 924 35 074
E-mail:
jon@r-hansen.no
ABOUT US
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT
OBJECTIVE
VALUES
Advokatfirmaet Rønning-Hansen AS was founded in 2009 by attorney Rode S. Rønning-Hansen. Rode envisaged building a local law firm focusing exclusively on business law. The main objective was to establish the firm as a preferred legal adviser to investors and corporations that require and acknowledge the need for business law expertise in their business. In order to help ensure that the firm would grow as Rode had contemplated, he prepared a written policy document stating the values and principles that would apply for the firm and its employees.
Since the establishment, the firm has grown significantly and we are now a full service business law firm with significant knowledge and experience within the areas of expertise that are important to our principals. Even though the firm has grown significantly, the business model is in accordance with the main values and principles that were there already from the establishment. This is something that we believe to be essential to our positive development.
Advokatfirmaet Rønning-Hansen AS shall be regarded as a leading business law firm in the region. Accordingly we focus on providing expert legal advice to investors and corporations within important markets in the region. To succeed with this strategy, it is in our view imperative that the firm consists of a team of lawyers with high professional skills and considerable commercial and business law experience.
We shall always be a competitive provider of business law services to investors and corporations that place an emphasis on our core values and demand that their lawyer shall deliver services of the highest standard.
The firm's business is based on that we shall always deliver in accordance with our core values, which are high quality, excellent service, integrity and efficiency.
Quality: We shall at all times deliver quality that is in accordance with or exceeds the expectations that investors and corporations should have to their lawyer. For us, high quality does not only imply legal expertise. In order to be able to deliver services of the highest quality it is imperative that the firm possesses and utilizes the commercial experience and competence that are necessary to meet the high demands of investors and corporations. Our legal services shall always be solution oriented and of the highest quality.
Service: We know that availability and excellent service are components that we must deliver on in order to meet the expectations of our principals. We shall therefore always provide excellent service to those we represent.
Integrity: As a firm and professionals we are dependent on the trust of our principals. If the required trust is not there we cannot succeed as a firm.
Our principals can trust that our advice is always based exclusively on what we believe to be in the best interest of those we represent in the relevant matter. In order to enable us to provide legal services that benefit our principals, we only take up engagements within our areas of expertise. Our services shall represent added value and not unnecessary costs for our principals.
We also place great emphasis on maintaining a professional and good relationship with those we do not represent, including competing law firms, something which we believe generally benefits our principals.
Efficiency: The fact that we are a business law firm focusing exclusively on selected areas of expertise implies that we are able to deliver quickly and efficiently, which we always seek to do.
We believe that our emphasis on our core values helps us reach our main objective in all assignments, which is to help those we represent achieve the best solution available based on the prevailing commercial and legal conditions.
CONTACT
ADDRESS
Visitor address:
Strandgata 8, 6. etg.
9008 Tromsø
NORWAY
Post address:
Postboks 769
9258 Tromsø
NORWAY
WEBDESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT BY
DESIGNER ELISABETH J STRIFELDT