Mr Sten Foyn > Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile
Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS Offices
Haakon VIIs gate 10
PB 359 Sentrum
Oslo
NO-0101
Norway
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Mr Sten Foyn
Work Department
Employment and pension
Dispute resolution
Aviation
Position
Partner Sten Foyn is head of the employment law expert group of Haavind’s labour, employment and corporate governance practice area. He has extensive experience related to transfer of undertaking/outsourcing, handling of personnel matters, working hours and working environment issues, whistleblowing, investigation, civil servants law, protection of privacy and international employment law.
Partner Foyn also regularly handles a number of reorganisations/restructurings for Norwegian and international companies and recently has been lead partner in major restructurings necessitated by the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Additionally, during recent years Partner Foyn has established himself as one of the leading litigators in employment law in Norway, including having litigated two Supreme Court cases in the same year (2019). Recent years have also seen him selected by clients as lead lawyer in a number of high-profile whistleblowing cases and he has been appointed head of the 4-panel independent Whistleblowing body of Norwegian Lutheran Mission.
He is a board member of the Norwegian Labour Law Association, the Norwegian Association of Employment Lawyers, and Norway’s Board member to the European Employment Lawyer’s Association (EELA) and has been a member of a reference group in the Ministry of Labour, assessing the rules on whistleblowing.
Career
Advokatfirmaet Haavind, Partner 2008
Temporary Judge in Oslo District Court
Adviser and Office Manager at the Ombudsman for public administration
Deputy Judge, Drammen District Court
Research Fellow, Centre for EC law, UiO
Assistant at the Attorney General’s Office
Lawyer Rankings
Norway > Employment
Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS has expertise in all areas of employment law encompassing pensions matters, restructurings, data protection work and collective employment law; the ‘highly competent‘ team is also skilled in litigation and dispute resolution. Practice head Gaute Krokann is an experienced lead on investigations, whistleblowing cases and restructurings, while Lars Kokkvold
specialises in business-critical matters, and is often involved in cross-border employment issues such as transfers of undertakings, investigations and reorganisations. Other notable practitioners are Pål Kvernaas, who is renowned for both his strategic advisory work and dispute resolution expertise; and Sten Foyn, who specialises in redundancies, whistleblowing claims and restructurings. Kari Sigurdsen is also recommended for her litigation and investigations skills, specifically in determination of employment, resignation, temporary employment and whistleblowing issues.
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