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Jannicke Rokkan

Jannicke Rokkan

Work Department

Indirect Tax

Position

Attorney-at-law/Partner Jannicke Knudtzon Rokkan is head of the Bodø office, currently consisting of 6 attorneys-at-law and growing. She has extensive experience within the different areas of real estate, both when it comes to tax and VAT, and also when it comes to M&A, drafting contracts (sale or lease), restructuring of companies (company law), restructuring of properties (joining or division), applying for permissions for change of use etc.  She has more than 8 years of experience as an attorney-at-law at KPMG Law, and in addition she has been the General Counsel in a privately owned group of companies with main focus on investments and development of real estate. She has also worked for more than 8 years as a case handler and executive officer at the Norwegian Tax Authorities.

Career

2019 – Present day:  Attorney-at-law/Partner, KPMG Law Advokatfirma AS, Bodø

2018-2019: External examiner for exams within tax law and company law, 2016-2019: Attorney-at-law/Director, KPMG Law Advokatfirma AS, Bodø

2014-2016: General Counsel, Christian Jakhelln AS

2009-2014: Associate attorney-at-law, Attorney-at-law, KPMG Law Advokatfirma AS, Bodø

2002-2009: Adviser/Director general, Norwegian Tax Authorities/Nordland County Revenue Office

1999-2002: Case handler/adviser, Norwegian Board Health

2010-2011: Professional Director for tax law, Bodø Business School/University of Nordland

Languages

Norwegian, English

Memberships

Norwegian Bar Association

Education

Candidate of Jurisprudence, University of Oslo (1998)