EXPERTISE
Real estate transactions
Transactions can create significant value, for both buyers and sellers. It is important for sellers to get bids based on correct assumptions and make a solid foundation for negotiations that can result in a completed transaction. For buyers, it is important to reveal specific risks so that costs and disadvantages do not come as a surprise after closing.
The team has extensive experience related to assistance to the parties in real estate transactions, to ensure good transaction processes. Our lawyers have in-depth knowledge of ordinary SPAs for the acquisition of property companies and properties. Some transactions require special adaptation. This applies, for example, to sale-and-leaseback structures, syndications, and the purchase or sale of buildings under construction via forward structures, where our lawyers also have long experience.
Most real estate transactions involve companies both as buyers, sellers and as transaction objects. The transactions normally entail a need for company law changes to the board, articles of association and the like, and sometimes a need for the use of new shelf companies, mergers, or demergers to ensure legal protection. Our lawyers have experience in assisting with structural issues and practical implementation within company law.
Our team assists with all phases of real estate transactions. Feel free to get in touch for a non-binding chat about how we can work together on a specific or potential transaction.
Lease contracts
Good leases create value and predictability. The rent is normally decisive for the value of a property in the short and long term, both in terms of financing and future sales. Individual clauses can be decisive for whether a property is suitable for sale, and unclear clauses can ultimately lead to a dispute with a key tenant for the landlord.
Our team assists in entering into and managing leases in order to reduce the risk of future findings in due diligence in the event of a sale, to reduce the risk of disputes and not least to create clear and predictable framework conditions for the lease.
Property development
A property development project can bring high returns. However, if the project does not go as planned, the developer may ultimately incur large losses. Knowledge and expertise are important to predict which issues that may arise. Coordination of various elements in the property development project is important to avoid contradictions between various agreements of importance to the project.
The counterparty in a property development project often varies over time. As a small law firm with a clear strategy, the probability that we can assist in all phases is high. For example, we primarily take assignments for landlords, not tenants, for builders, not contractors, and for companies, not for private individuals. Therefore, the probability that Apex Advokatfirma can be a collaborative partner through all the phases that a property development project goes through increases.
Our team assists with all phases of property development projects, from entering into option agreements, acquisition of property, via regulation and planning, property organization (such as division into several land and title numbers, sectioning), entering into leases and finally realisation of values/sale.
General commercial real estate law
Apex Advokatfirma has defined three main areas for core knowledge within commercial real estate law- transactions, leases, and property development. These three areas cover most of the questions that regularly arise in connection with commercial real estate projects.
However, as owner of commercial properties, various issues related to such as property management, property rights, land registration, the property's boundaries, ground lease fees, and insurance may come up. For several years, our lawyers have assisted various real estate players with different issues related to general commercial real estate law. If a problem has arisen where you need assistance, please feel free to get in touch to find out whether our lawyers have experience from precisely the type of assignment that is relevant and important to you and your company.
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We want to help to create value and reduce the risk of disputes
PEOPLE
Andreas Mello-Kildal
Andreas Mello-Kildal is a lawyer, graduated Master of Laws in 2011, and as Business Economist BI in 2006. He has worked as a lawyer since 2013, including as Group Head of Legal in NG Group AS from 2021 to 2023.
Line Ravlo-Losvik
Line Ravlo-Losvik is a lawyer, cand jur from 1996 and has a doctor’s degree from 2000 (PhD). She has worked as a lawyer since 2000. In addition, she has worked at the University of Tromsø and for the Kosovo forces.
Kristin Berglund
Kristin Berglund is a lawyer. She was cand jur in 2005 and has been licensed as a lawyer since 2008. She has worked with land registration in Moss district court, as a lawyer and with the County Governor in Oslo and Viken.
Emil August Fjellvang
Emil August Fjellvang is a Senior Associate and graduated Master of Laws in 2018. He has worked as an associate and lawyer since 2018 and has significant experience in court.
Melissa Ystenes Dahl
Melissa Ystenes Dahl is an Associate and graduated Master of Laws in 2018. Since 2018 she has worked with commercial real estate.
Eivind Virik
Eivind Virik graduated Master of Laws in 2018. He has several years' experience as an associate, and as an investment analyst in Neptune/Profier and Miliarium.
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ABOUT US
We want to help to create value and reduce the risk of disputes
Apex Advokatfirma AS was founded in 2023, but our lawyers represent more than 60 years of experience. We therefore call ourselves an “experienced newco”. The company name comes from the English word "apex" which means, among other things, "the highest point of achievement". For us, the creation of Apex represents the realization of a dream to work with what we like best - commercial real estate law.
What our clients say about us:
“In our view, [Line Ravlo-Losvik] is one of the top lawyers in Norway”
“Andreas Mello-Kildal is outstanding, legally and commercially”
“The firm ensures that clients have full access to partners and expert resources, providing exceptional availability and responsiveness. This level of dedication and personal attention, especially from senior members like Line Ravlo-Losvik and Andreas Mello-Kildal, offers a rare and valuable experience in the legal sector”
Apex Advokatfirma is a boutique commercial real estate firm that covers all aspects of property transactions, leases, property development and general commercial real estate law. We believe that being a boutique commercial real estate firm with a strong, purposeful and focused strategy is one of our most important competitive advantages. With a clear client strategy, we want to create predictability for clients that Apex Advokatfirma can assist in the projects from start to end.
Apex Advokatfirma is and shall be a relatively small law firm and everyone who works in the company will get to know the clients well. Apex Advokatfirma will then be able to provide quick assistance and follow-up from lawyers who know the client, entailing that the clients do not have to deal with new lawyers in each matter.
Those who started Apex Advokatfirma share the same enthusiasm for commercial real estate and want to build a strong and flexible team for the best interests of our clients. We have a profit-split model and bonus model that are fully linked to the firm's results. In this way, we ensure that the entire team always has the same interest in the clients’ satisfaction and that the clients receive the right advice at the right time.
For us at Apex Advokatfirma, different points of view represent a value, and Apex Advokatfirma therefore wants to build an environment where employees have different ages, genders, backgrounds, and interests. We value new views and ideas, to the benefit of both clients and employees.
With us, everyone is offered to be a co-owner, regardless of their position. For us, it provides common incentives to create a good workplace with a reasonable work-load distribution. With shared incentives, we hope to be able to allocate and distribute resources for the common good and create a workplace with a sensible work-life balance. We believe that a good work-life balance results in well-rested lawyers, who in turn will be able to maintain both commitment and enthusiasm, which in turn enables us to give the best advice.
Although Apex is an experienced newco, and a relatively small company, we will do our utmost to operate our business in a sustainable manner. We are certified as Miljøfyrtårn (The Eco-Lighthouse certification in Norway), to take environmental responsibility. The annual report is available here. We set requirements for our suppliers related to sustainability, and we will have a continuous focus on limiting our emissions. Apex also provides pro bono assistance within certain selected professional areas, for the public interest.