Selmer is home to a well-experienced dispute resolution team, enabling the firm to cover litigation, mediation, and arbitration across its full-service offering. The practice is particularly well placed to advise on contractual, shipbuilding and technology disputes. Fredrik Lilleaas Ellingsen oversees the practice, bringing his judicial experience to a varied stream of commercial disputes. With a similarly broad practice, Carl Roberts handles contractual, real estate and hydropower-related litigation. Anders Wilhelmsen is also recommended.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Excellent team, with proper depth in different fields. Their coordination was impeccable.’
- ‘Martin Bogstrand Sørensen has been the lead in our cases. A keen grasp of the case at an early stage allowed him to stake out a course that could be maintained throughout the case. This provided argumentative consistency while allowing for necessary flexibility, and it provided a simplification of information gathering and processing.’
- ‘I think the professional capacity is the most important aspect; the admin part functions well. The uniqueness is the lawyers at work.’
- ‘Competent, realistic, clear guiding, focused.’
- ‘Professionalism, authenticity and passion.’
- ‘The team has not only excellent knowledge of the law but an incredible sense of its practical application in litigation cases. The team feels and predicts how the tribunals would react to certain types of arguments and finds a way to present those in a convincing and compelling way.’
Key clients
- Mercedes-Benz Group AG
- Siemens Healthineers
- TotalEnergies EP Norge AS
- Norwegian Marine Insurance
- Fjord1
- Borregaard
- Tech Mahindra Norway AS
- Selvaag Bolig
- Skanska Bolig AS
- Scandic Hotels
- Unilabs
- Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK)
Work highlights
Representing Mercedes-Benz in two EUR 100m lawsuits brought by Norway Post and Tine.
Representing the producer of farmed Atlantic salmon Cermaq in international damages lawsuits, valued at £675m, commencing from the investigations of the company and other producers in the US and EU for breach of competition rules.
Representing TotalEnergies EP Norge AS, the Norwegian E&P subsidiary of TotalEnergies group, in a lawsuit concerning transfer pricing of sales of dry gas to an affiliated trading company based in London and Geneva.
Lawyers
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Practice head
Fredrik Lilleaas Ellingsen
Other key lawyers
Carl Roberts; Anders Wilhelmsen; Martin Bogstrand Sørensen