Selmer is a revered Norwegian law firm with a tax department comprising five partners, supplemented by associates. Partner Sverre Hveding is the practice head, and co-head of the venture capital division. The department acts as tax counsel, with special expertise covering transactions, reorganisations, and indirect taxation. The firm has also been active in several tax litigation cases. Transactions specialists Einar Bakko, Bård Ivar Koppang and indirect practitioner Are Fagerhaug are key contacts.
The firm represented Borregaard with litigation against a municipality at the District Court in 2022. It also acted for Sparebankstiftelsen Hedmark with structuring and continuous not-for-profit tax exemption status.
Partner Anders Flaatin Wilhelmsen and senior lawyer Camilla Fingarsen joined the firm in 2022.
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