Tage Brigt A. Skoghøy

Partner
Location Head, Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations
Tage Skoghøy
Location
Oslo
Language
Norwegian, English

Tage Brigt A. Skoghøy is a litigator admitted to the Supreme Court, ranked among Norway’s leading lawyers for Dispute Resolution.

Tage is one of our litigation and arbitration specialists, and handles contractual and damages disputes within a number of fields of law and industries. He has considerable expertise pleading before the Norwegian ordinary courts, including the Supreme Court, arbitration panels and the Market Council. Tage’s expertise includes also negotiation, court-sponsored mediation, temporary injunctions and enforcement proceedings.

Besides regularly assisting clients within transport and logistics, aviation and real estate/construction, Tage’s matters litigated before the Supreme Court is quite illustrating for his broad expertise:

  1. A commission claim-dispute within the shipping industry, clarifying the threshold for establishing a binding contract (2017),
  2. An IPR-dispute within the film industry, clarifying the requirement of originality in the Copyright Act and the transfer of IP rights from employees to employers (2017),
  3. A damages dispute within the shipping industry, concerning a seller’s right of stoppage in transit and clarifying the carrier’s liability for delivery of goods to the buyer in breach of the seller’s instructions to hold (2019), and
  4. A dispute within the aviation industry, clarifying the deadlines for filing compensation claims due to flight delays (2020).

 

Both national and international lawyer guides rank Tage among Norway’s «top ranked lawyers» (Chambers and Partners), «Next Generation Partners» (Legal500) and «Up-and-Coming» (Finansavisen) for Dispute Resolution. He is a litigation lecturer and coach for associates engaged by Juristenes Utdanningssenter, has on several occasions been a litigation/arbitration coach by the Master of Maritime Law-program at UIO, and participates in the Scandinavian arbitration society, i.a. he was the Norwegian panellist on the subject «mandatory mediation» at the Nordic Arbitration Day in Stockholm in 2019.

Credentials
Education
Admitted to the Supreme Court
2019
Master of Law, University of Oslo
2009
Memberships

Member of The Norwegian Bar Association.

Appointments
Litigation coach for associates, Juristenes Utdanningssenter
2018 -
Litigation/arbitration coach in the Master of Maritime Law program, University of Oslo
2016 - 2017
Board member (staff representative), Simonsen Vogt Wiig
2015 - 2019
Internal auditor, Simonsen Vogt Wiig
2011 - 2012
Responsible for procedural law qualifications, Simonsen Vogt Wiig
2011 - 2012
Experience
Prior experience
Partner, DLA Piper Norway
2022 -
Associate Partner, Simonsen Vogt Wiig
2019 - 2022
Senior Lawyer, Simonsen Vogt Wiig
2015 - 2018
Senior Associate, Simonsen Vogt Wiig
2012 - 2015
Associate, Simonsen Vogt Wiig
2009 - 2012
Rankings
The Legal 500

Ranked "Next Generation Partners" | 3 years ranked | Dispute Resolution.

Norwegian Financial Daily’s annual lawyers survey

"Up and Coming" | 4 years ranked | Dispute Resolution.

Chambers & Partners Global/Europe

Ranked "Band 4" | 7 years ranked | Dispute resolution.

 

Client feedback, Chambers & Partners

"Tage is an outstanding lawyer to work with." 

"He is skilled and has a good reputation." 

"Tage Brigt Skoghøy is very skilled and pedagogical."

"He is a superb litigator with a strong performance in court proceedings."

"High problem-solving skills and strong communication."

"His ability to see the legal issues quickly and put forward a good strategy on how to proceed with the case and put our arguments before the courts."

"He is efficient and highly skilled, gives excellent and usable strategic advice that we can trust, and regularly delivers on time."

"He is service-minded and to the point, and we appreciate both the quality of his legal advice as well as his litigation skills."

Publications
The Legal 500: International arbitration country comparative guide Skoghøy, Reusch and Haukaas, Legal 500
2019
Enforcement of foreign judgments Skoghøy and Haukaas, Mondaq
2019
The "Il Tempo Gigante"-dispute: A warning to developers Skoghøy, Dagens Næringsliv
2019
Enforcement of foreign judgments ICLG.com
2018
A structured guide to arbitration in Norway Skoghøy and Haukaas, Lexology
2016
Bunker oil pollution - Liability, limitation fund and choice of law Skoghøy, MarIus no. 396
2011
Buyers without legal rights Skoghøy and Gjeldsnes, Aftenposten
2011
The Public Competition Enforcement Review Skoghøy and Ellingsen, Third Edition
2011