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Ailu Gaup Stadigs

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Ailu Gaup Stadigs specializes in construction and contract law and has extensive experience with dispute resolution in these areas.

Ailu assists clients in extensive and complex disputes. He provides legal advice regarding  the implementation and execution of construction contracts. He has worked with a number of the largest land-based final settlement disputes that have been in Norway recent years, where the dispute sum has often been in the billions.

Ailu is a certified mediator with significant experience with assisting in negotiations and in judicial and extrajudicial mediations. He has assisted clients in several of the largest mediations conducted in recent years, including what is referred to as the most extensive judicial mediation held in Norway. He has also been appointed as a mediator in a number of cases. Ailu is also a regular examiner at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo.

He is recognized by the international ranking bureau The Legal 500 (2023 and 2024) as one of the country’s top construction lawyers where he is ranked as a Next Generation Partner.

aista@hjort.no

+47 40 04 64 13

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Professional Experience
2023
Partner, Advokatfirmaet Hjort
2014
Advokatfirmaet Haavind
2020
Acting District judge, Oslo District Court
2017
Examinator, Faculty of Law, The University of Oslo
2017
Deputy Judge, Oslo District Court
2013
Advisor, Ministry of Trade and Fisheries
2012
Parlimentary intern and judicial advisor, Storting Investigation Office
2012
Research assistant, Center for European Law, The University of Oslo / Storting's Research Section
Education
2023
Certified mediator, Mediation Academy
2012
Masters of Law, The University of Oslo
2005
Politics and Administration, HiO
Memberships | Honoraries

2025 – Member of the Mediation Committee (permanent committee for the Norwegian Bar Association)

2024 – Member of the Mediation Association’s Expert Group for Construction and Consultancy Contracts

2024 – External judicial mediator in the joint external judicial mediation committee for Borgarting Court of Appeal, Oslo District Court, Ringerike, Asker and Bærum District Court, Buskerud District Court and Søndre Østfold District Court

Ailu is ranked as “Next Generation Partners” by The Legal 500 in Construction (2023 and 2024).

“He’s an excellent lawyer and is good at seeing connections in [matters]. He’s determined and good at looking at details. He can do complex law.” Chambers and Partners (2024).

“Ailu delivers solid and thorough explanations. He has experience in these kinds of issues and is excellent helping us build our case. Ailu has longstanding experience and a strong competence in solving cases. We (…) are very satisfied with his services.” Chambers and Partners (2024).

Publications

Lokale tilknytningskrav og EØS-avtalens regler om de fire friheter, Perspektiv (01/2013), Stortingets utredningsseksjon

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There have been several predictions that the construction industry is on the verge of a wave of bankruptcies. As legal advisors, we encounter entities worried about their contracting parties being on the brink of bankruptcy in ongoing projects. The concern is understandable, due to the current challeng-es of the industry, and the potentially significant consequences of a bankruptcy. This raises the ques-tion of what can be done to effectively protect one’s own interest in the event of a potential bankruptcy.