Jeremy Roth, co-managing director of fast-growing Littler Mendelson, has been direct about the terms of the global employment and labor firm’s continued expansion: how the proposed local partner matches up is just as important as the market.

He says the firm has found the right fit in Norway, its latest overseas destination, in 12-lawyer Oslo-based Homble Olsby. By adding the 11-year-old labor and employment boutique to its global verein, Littler is gaining its first outpost in Scandinavia, after expanding to France, the U.K., Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium all over the past three years.