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Tax
DLA Piper‘s team has experience advising its clients on M&A and transaction-related tax issues, particularly matters involving warranty and indemnity insurance. The group is led by Jonas Aartun, who has notable expertise handling corporate tax matters for shipping and energy and natural resources companies, including hydropower and oil clients. The practice is also equipped to handle contentious tax work.
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Key clients
- Green Mountain
- P2XAL
- Magtech
- DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale
- Namecheap
- Sky Consulting
- Azrieli Group
- Skanska Group
- IK Gruppen
- Quasar Data Center
- Volkswagen Møller Bilfinans
- Falck Renewables
- Cloudberry Clean Energy
- Marti AG
- First Mover Group
- Gasmann Eiendom
- AIG
- Euclid
- Compass Group
- Betonmast Eiendom
- OmniVision Technologies Inc.
- SkeidarLiving Group
- Univid
- Northern Green Hydro
Work highlights
- Representing a client in tax litigation at the Oslo Appeal Court regarding tax losses carried forward of NOK159m in one of its subsidiaries.
- Advising Green Mountain on assessing the group structure and capitalisation of its companies, which has involved, for example, the classification of hybrid cross-border capital instruments for Norwegian tax purposes and withholding tax on interest payments and dividends.
- Representing an insurance company client and an auditor in a complex multi-million claim by the Norwegian Tax Administration.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Jonas Aartun