
Tax
The ‘solid tax team’ at Selmer is well known for assisting with the tax aspects of transactions, audits, the planning and structuring of companies, and reorganisations. Sverre Hveding leads the offering, and Einar Bakko has experience advising multinational corporations, while Are Fagerhaug’s expertise covers indirect tax and VAT issues. Anders Nordli joined the practice from Advokatfirmaet Grette AS in March 2024 and is equipped to advise public and private companies across various industries on the tax aspects of company establishments and structuring issues, among other areas.
Testimonials
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‘Selmer has a solid tax team, highly experienced. They are very capable and have excitingly gained Anders Nordli.’
‘Anders Nordli is a pleasure to work with. Extremely technically skilled within the tax field. Always available, solution-minded and responsive.’
‘Selmer offers very good advice in VAT issues.’
‘Are Fagerhaug is a very competent, experienced, nice and attentive adviser. Our experience with him has been very good.’
Key clients
- Orkla
- Scatec
- Solør Bioenergi Group
- Sparebank 1 SR-Bank
- Mnemonic
- Foodora Norway
- Marketer
- Reetec AS
- Scandinavian Property Group
- Aspelin Ramm
- Statkraft SF
- Maritime & Merchant Bank ASA
- Alliance venture
- Selvaag
- Sparebankstiftelsen Hedmark
- Scandinavian Property Group
- Velde
- Vialto Partners
- Lund Gruppen
- CD&R
- BKW Energie AG
- Rebaioli
- Unifon
Work highlights
- Advising major Norwegian organisations that collect payment for IP rights on securing practical ways to handle VAT when collecting contributions on behalf of musicians, artists, composers, authors, and publishers.
- Advising a client on establishing a highly operational group structure which is tax optimised for the growth of the group in its cross-border operations and for the potential exit of parts of the group.
- Advising a client in connection with its investment in Wind Energy Construction AS, including assisting with the structuring and analysing the tax consequences of the set-up for investors, many of which are non-Norwegian residents.
Lawyers

Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Sverre Hveding