Law firm Rasmussen & Broch

We assist clients in all corporate law matters. We have extensive experience in various transactions for most business areas.

We assist with, among other things:

• Restructuring and reorganization
• Purchase and sale of companies/businesses
• Negotiations
• Choice of transaction model
• Due diligence
• Drafting of contracts
• Shareholder agreements
• Foundation and dissolution of company
• Capital increase, capital reduction, distribution of dividends and group contributions
• Mergers, fissions and transformation
• The board's responsibilities and duties
• Financing
• Ownership conflicts

Several of the lawyers also have many years of experience from board management and board work.

We assist lenders, borrowers, company management and individual creditors in negotiations on business restructuring, debt restructuring and bankruptcy.

Our bankruptcy lawyers provide legal and strategic advice in, among other things, the following types of cases: 

• Assessment of whether a business with financial challenges can and should be restructured according to the Restructuring Act. In general, the Restructuring Act provides good tools, which can help a company to get back on its feet financially - often by reducing the debt in combination with the deposit of new equity capital. The first step is to carry out an analysis of the company's financial status and how this can be improved through the tools in the law.
• We provide advice on all stages of the process and can assist in negotiations with banks, creditors, contractual partners and public authorities.
• If it is not appropriate to save the existing business through reconstruction, we can give advice and assist in connection with requests for tenders, assist the former management during the bankruptcy proceedings, and possibly assist with the purchase of assets from the estate.

Our bankruptcy lawyers are regularly assigned assignments as trustees at the Hordaland district court and have a number of bankrupt estates for processing on an ongoing basis, of which we have handled several of the largest bankruptcies in Western Norway over the years. Furthermore, we have assignments as reconstructors according to the Reconstruction Act.

Disputes between actors in business can arise in a number of different forms. For a good result, it is crucial to have sharp, commercially oriented assistance at all stages of the process.

Our lawyers have extensive experience with all forms of dispute resolution in a number of different legal areas. Dispute resolution does not only include processes before the courts, but just as often negotiations, both with and without external assistance. Our experience is that expensive and time-consuming legal processes can often be avoided if the parties' positions are investigated as early as possible and possible solutions are explored. If it is not possible to reach a negotiated solution, we assist in cases both before ordinary courts, in arbitration or with other forms of alternative dispute resolution. Our lawyers have experience with procedural assignments within a wide range of disputes, including:

 

• Contract and tort disputes, including defects in the delivery of goods and services, breach of contract and invalid agreements.
• Transport and maritime law disputes, including in connection with cargo damage, breakdowns and charter parties.
• Disputes within employment law, including dismissals, dismissals and working environment matters.
• Disputes relating to real estate, including real estate transactions, tenancies and neighboring rights.
• Corporate law disputes, including shareholder conflicts and board liability.
• Disputes within public procurement and competition law, including complaints and sanctions.
• Disputes relating to intellectual property rights, such as patents, trademarks and copyrights.

Rasmussen & Broch has broad and long-standing expertise in the field of real estate.

Below this, the firm has experience with property development, property transactions, as well as more general issues related to real estate. We assist both private and business clients and provide advice at all stages of the process, including:

• Contract regulation/design and settlement for the purchase, sale and construction of real estate.
• Issues relating to deficiencies and delays.
• Tenancy and franchise.
• Sectioning and resectioning
• Sharing and merging
• Establishment and dissolution of co-ownership
• Plot attachment
• Neighborhood relations
• Rights of use and resolution
• claim
• Odel
• The relationship with public administration

Since the firm's inception in 1984, our philosophy has been to offer specialized legal services of high professional quality with professional execution.

Through personal follow-up, business understanding and a focus on effective solutions, we have built long-term client relationships since the start.

We are a team of dedicated lawyers who mainly assist companies and the public sector in the commercial legal field.

The firm has specialist expertise in the areas of tax and duty, contract law/negotiation, procedure, maritime operations, insolvency and bankruptcy, public administration, real estate, company law, banking/financing, employment law and transactions.

As a client, you will be assisted by the lawyer who is best suited to look after your interests. We emphasize personal follow-up from the company's partners.

All businesses with employees will face employment law issues. Labor law includes a complex set of regulations which, among other things, regulate the conclusion and termination of employment agreements, the working environment, business transfers, hiring and restrictions on competition.

Our lawyers focus on finding commercially sensible solutions that safeguard the company's reputation and avoid time- and cost-consuming processes. We assist public and private employers with a wide range of issues, including:  

• Personnel matters
• Dispute resolution before the courts
• Hiring of labour
• Incentive programs
• Competition restrictions
• Transactions
• Layoffs and downsizing
• Business transfer
• Collective labor law and collective agreements
• Notification