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Advokatfirmaet Føyen AS

Client Satisfaction

Advokatfirmaet Føyen AS is regularly instructed by leading IT companies, suppliers, and purchasers on telecoms-related matters and data protection work, and utilises sector expertise in the digital marketing space. With in-depth knowledge of IT contracts and cloud services, Lars Folkvard Giske leads the practice. Bolstering the team’s IT contract offering are Knut Olav Fiane, Ole Bachke, and Jostein Ramse, with the latter also assisting with IT disputes. Knut Glad focuses on IP and telecoms work, while Vebjørn Søndersrød advises on GDPR and digital marketing mandates.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

‘Excellent legal advisers, nice to work with, efficient.’
‘A great team with a lot of knowledge within this practice, both in private and public. They combine their experience and knowledge to make the best team suitable to address our needs.’
‘Knut Olav Fiane has a lot of experience within public and private practice, that makes him a valuable partner to us. He brings a lot of good ideas, tries to challenge us in new thinking, and also challenges our suppliers with up to date information, to bring the contracts to a new level.’
‘Excellent ability to quickly act on our behalf in complex, unique and multi-jurisdictional technology supply contracts. We use them as an extension of our in-house team and have trust that they can act on our behalf with little oversight.’
‘Partner Knut Fiane is our go-to partner for complex technology contracts, being one of few in Norway with semiconductor experience. Knut is an effective negotiator capable of paying attention to the small details and the big picture at the same time.’

Key clients

Google LLC and Alphabet LLC
Accenture AS
Bouvet Norge AS
Jotun AS
Statens Vegvesen, Vegdirektoratet (the Norwegian Roads Administration)
Nordic Semiconductor ASA
KLP
DIPS AS
Itera Norge AS
BDO
ICT Norway
Chili Mobil AS
The Norwegian Police
Avinor Flysikring
OneCo Telecom AS and OneCo Network AS
Indigo IKS (Hedmark IKT) / Hamar kommune
Movar IKS
Bitastad
Dibber AS
Link Mobility AS
Strawberry (Nordic Choice Hotels)
Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND)
Swedish Match Norge AS
Stokke AS
Power Norge AS
LOfavør AS
Whitelake Software Point OY
NorgesNett AS
180 Nummeropplysningen AS
Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA
Fellesforbundet

Work highlights

Assisting Google Norway and Google LLC with IT, IP, compliance, telecoms, and data protection issues.
Assisting Strawberry Hotels AS with issues arising from the high-profile Conti-virus ransomware attack.
Assisting Statens Vegvesen (Norwegian Public Roads Administration) with the procurement of a new PaaS platform.