Johan Krabbe-Knudsen has his core expertise in employment law. The assistance consists of advisory services and procedure in most areas, especially related to the following areas:

• Notification matters
• Business transfers
• Reorganizations and downsizing
• Personnel cases / dismissal and dismissal cases
• Collective white labor law
• Procedural assignments in individual dismissal cases and downsizing processes, including a case before the Supreme Court (dismissal case for the rig company Transocean Offshore North Sea Limited (HR2006-2008-A)
• Use of competition / quarantine regulations
• Securing evidence
• Privacy, especially related to access to storage media (e-mail, etc.)

Krabbe-Knudsens has worked with labor law issues for almost 20 years and assists a large number of major listed global and national companies. This has mainly been aimed at the oil & gas industry, as well as major employers in the construction industry and the public sector.

Krabbe-Knudsen covers all areas within labor law and has assisted a number of clients in major restructuring processes and business transfers, such as outsourcing and mergers in Norway and across national borders. He provides assistance to companies in connection with employees' resignation and start-up of competing activities, including securing evidence to prevent information and trade secrets (technology, strategies, customer relationships, etc.) from being unlawfully used by others.

He also assists companies in collective labor law, such as negotiations on local collective agreements, as well as disputes over interpretations of concluded collective agreements. He also assists clients in connection with changes and transformations of pension schemes. Within individual labor law, he assists employers in dismissal cases and the implementation of investigations in connection with notification cases of matters worthy of criticism, and works for several companies as an externally appointed notification channel. Krabbe-Knudsen has prosecuted a number of labor law cases before district courts and courts of appeal, as well as cases before the Supreme Court.

Krabbe-Knudsen works at CMS Kluge's office in Stavanger and is top ranked in the Legal 500 where CMS Kluge's assistance is described as;

- Professionally: highly competent, willing to share knowledge and perspectives. Personality: He had authority within his profession and at the same had a humble approach to all our questions and the continuous new issues that were raised. Skills: He demonstrated ability to listen, thus understood the addressed problems and challenges which led to speedy and appropriate solutions.

- CMS Kluge and Johan Krabbe-Knudsen stood out as a true expert in labor law. We have been through three court cases and won all. All cases were complex, huge cases but Krabbe-Knudsen was calm and drove the process for a whole year.