Ms Jana Johnsen > Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS > Bergen, Norway > Lawyer Profile
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NO-5817 BERGEN
Norway
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Ms Jana Johnsen
Work Department
Tax & Structure
Position
Partner
Career
Jana Johnsen is a partner in Schjødt’s Tax & Structure department and is also currently head of the firm’s Bergen office. Her principal areas of work are tax, dispute resolution, and private M&A. She has extensive experience advising on domestic and international taxation and representing clients in administrative proceedings and disputes before the ordinary courts. She frequently advises on transactions between shareholders and companies, change of ownership in family-held companies, wealth taxation, tax domiciliation, transfer pricing and establishment and optimization of corporate- and tax structures, representing, among others, holding companies, high net-worth individuals and Family Offices. She also has experience as the executor of wills.
Jana joined Schjødt in 2013. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Bergen and holds a Master in Auditing and Accounting from the Norwegian School of Economics.
Education
2013 – Master of auditing and accounting, The Norwegian School of Economics
2012 – Cand. jur., University of Bergen
Lawyer Rankings
Norway > Tax
(Next Generation Partners)The well-established practice at Advokatfirmaet Schjødt advises on the tax aspects of a broad range of transactions in both domestic and cross-border contexts; the group also handles the tax efficiency elements of complex corporate structuring and restructuring work, and represents clients in tax disputes. The team is headed up by Morten Platou, and standout names include corporate tax specialist Cecilie Amdahl; M&A and capital markets-focused Hugo Matre; and Morten Sandli, who ‘stands out as being amongst the best skilled tax advisers in the Norwegian market’ who also focuses on corporate tax. Transaction-related matters are the specialism of Jana Johnsen.
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