Karoline Rørvik Zeiner > Brækhus Advokatfirma DA > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile
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ROALD AMUNDSENS GATE 6
PO Box 1369 Vika
0161 OSLO
Norway
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Karoline Rørvik Zeiner
Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Partner/Lawyer – Real Estate and Construction
Career
Karoline Røvik Zeiner works with general business law and specialises in real estate and planning and building law. She possesses special expertise in the area of real estate development (residential and commercial properties) and assists real estate developers and landowners at all stages of the development process – option agreements, contracts, transactions, regulation, plot structuring, securing of rights (parking, roads etc.), registration of land, choice of organisational structure, sectioning, establishment of joint ownerships/residents’ associations/investment properties etc.
Karoline’s expertise includes advice related to commercial lease agreements/tenancy law, housing law (housing cooperative and owner-tenant law), as well as construction contracts. Among other things, she has assisted several joint ownerships in cases concerning division and merging of joint ownerships in recent years.
Karoline has also in recent years specialised in sustainability, in particular in relation to the real estate sector, and assists with, e.g., ESG adaptations in lease agreements, advice related to regulations on reuse, applications in relation to the Norwegian Environment Agency in connection with recycling and more.
Karoline is often in court and has considerable experience with dispute resolution. Her litigation experience also includes interim injunctions/freezing orders and land reallocation cases.
2023 | Partner, Brækhus Advokatfirma |
2020 – 2022 | Partner, Dalan Advokatfirma DA |
2015 – 2020 | Lawyer / Senior Lawyer, Dalan Advokatfirma DA |
2013 – 2015 | Lawyer, HELP Forsikring AS |
2011 – 2013 | Associate, HELP Forsikring AS |
Languages
Norwegian and English
Education
2011 | Master of Laws, University of Oslo |
2005 | Human Rights Studies, Lund University, Sweden |
2004 | Peace and conflict studies, Lund University, Sweden |
Lawyer Rankings
Norway > Real estate
Core areas of focus for the growing real estate team at Brækhus Advokatfirma DA include expropriation cases, regulatory matters, and zoning and planning law. Under the leadership of Thomas Andersen, the team regularly acts for landowners in expropriation disputes, and also acts for developers and real estate companies on transactions and development projects. Other key individuals include the ‘always attentive‘ Karoline Rørvik Zeiner, recommended for planning and building law matters, and Ingerid Eidesvik Lie, who takes point on contentious mandates.