Kvale Law Firm

Our real estate team assists in all phases of real estate development, from land acquisition to spatial planning to development and to sale or rental. We provide daily ongoing assistance to property owners, builders, investors and property developers within housing, commercial buildings and industry.

We have valuable industry understanding, which enables us to offer solid commercial, strategic and legal advice.

Our services include:

• Acquisition, sale and settlement of real estate
• Option agreements
• Expropriation and discretion
• Neighboring relations
• Establishment, reshipment and deshipping of servitudes.
• Soil change
• Plot attachment
• Spatial planning - floor plan
• Development - construction matter
• Development agreements on public infrastructure
• Division and sectioning
• Complaints

Insurance matters require advisers with a broad understanding of the industry. Business is becoming increasingly professionalised, with consequent increased exposure to, for example, third-party claims, business interruptions, damage to property and

We assist both insurers and policyholders. We also assist our customers in the process of identifying the right insurance cover.

Kvale provides assistance within the entire field of insurance law, and has particular experience in:

• Professional liability insurance (board, lawyer and other adviser liability)
• Construction risk
• Interruption insurance
• Marine and other industrial insurance

Intellectual property rights protect values ​​of a non-material nature such as ideas, knowledge, innovation, intellectual property, characteristics and designs. This is a complex area of ​​law that embraces many different types of rights and issues; from questions about whether a competitor has become too close to your company's trademark or imitated your product, to larger complex disputes within patents or trade secrets. Intellectual property rights make up an increasingly large part of businesses' financial values, and are often decisive for establishing and retaining important market positions.

Kvale has one of the country's largest professional communities within this area of ​​law. Our team consists of dedicated and specialized lawyers with specialist expertise in all forms of intellectual property rights.

Kvale is ranked as a leader in this area in, among others, Legal 500, Chambers, IAM Patent and Managing IP. Kvale was named Managing IP Awards "Norwegian Trademark Prosecution Firm of the year" in 2020 and "Norwegian Patent Contentious Firm of the year" in 2021.

We assist with strategic advice, securing rights, and assistance with agreements related to intellectual property rights. Our lawyers also have considerable procedural experience in this area, and handle cases both before the ordinary courts and alternative dispute resolution bodies, such as e.g. Business competition committee.

Our services include:

• Registration of trademarks and designs
• Disputes relating to the validity and interference with trademark rights, patents or designs
• Disputes related to copyright infringement
• Disputes relating to matters of misappropriation of trade secrets
• Advice on the protection of rights, and preparation of internal IP strategies
• Preparation of guidelines for and advice regarding the protection of trade secrets
• Drafting and negotiations regarding license agreements, research and development agreements, agreements on the transfer of intellectual property rights, cooperation agreements and confidentiality agreements
• Advice and assessments of room for action in relation to the rights of others "Freedom to operate"
• Questions related to intellectual property rights and employees

We assist various players who are affected when a company experiences financial problems, and handle a wide range of issues.

Kvale continuously processes a significant number of bankrupt estates and reconstructions, among other things related to large national and international businesses. Several of our lawyers are regularly appointed as estate administrators and reconstructionists.

Our team emphasizes a commercial approach to the cases they handle, with specialist expertise within the subject area at the bottom. The lawyers in the team have broad experience in how legal and extrajudicial processes work in practice and how the various actors act, partly through their board of bankruptcy estates and reconstructions, and partly through assistance to companies, board members, auditors, shareholders, employees, banks and other mortgage holders and unsecured creditors.

Kvale's lawyers are involved in legal developments in the area, through participation in the Bankruptcy Council and in the reference group for the proposal for a new temporary reconstruction act that was adopted in May 2020.

Our services include:

• assignments as trustees in bankruptcy estates around Norway
• assignment as a reconstructor
• assistance to actors against a reconstruction or a bankruptcy
• negotiations with, and between, creditors
• purchase and sale of insolvent businesses both in and out of bankruptcy
• advice to owners, the board and management in the event of financial challenges
• reorganizations and downsizing
• examination of insolvent enterprises
• insolvency-related legal proceedings, e.g. overthrow and board responsibility
• recovery of claims, including forced recovery
• tactical and practical assistance to banks in special engagement cases
• financial restructuring
• arbitrator assignments

We have extensive experience in advising on the establishment of various company structures, drafting shareholder agreements, demergers and mergers, capital changes, dividend assessments and more.

We help you secure your rights vis-à-vis other shareholders or company participants. Good shareholder agreements and company documentation ensure the necessary flexibility and security. If a conflict arises, we assist in finding solutions outside or, if necessary, in the courts.

We provide ongoing assistance to administration and boards in listed and unlisted companies. We also assist a number of publicly owned enterprises.

Our services include:

• Choice of company form
• Foundation
• Formal company documentation
• Preparation of board and general meeting minutes
• Shareholder agreements
• Advice and process assignments in connection with board responsibility
• Conflict situations
• Restructurings
• Transactions