Mr Morten Platou > Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile
Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS Offices
Tordenskiolds gate 12
P.O. Box 2444 Solli
NO-0201 Oslo
Norway
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Mr Morten Platou
Work Department
Tax & Structure
Position
Partner and Head of Tax & Structure
Career
Morten Platou heads the Tax & Structure practice group and works closely with Schjødt’s capital markets and M&A departments. He is a tax specialist with extensive experience in Norwegian taxation, international taxation, and corporate law.
Morten regularly advises clients on tax and corporate questions related to mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, financial structures, and management incentive plans. He also assists clients in disputes with the tax authorities.
He regularly assists clients with the tax implications of structuring and establishing funds and fund structures. He also regularly advises Norwegian and non-Norwegian investors on the taxation of inbound and outbound fund investments.
Morten has been a lawyer since 2010 and joined Schjødt in 2019. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo and an LL.M. in taxation from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Education
2012 – LLM, Georgetown University
2011 – Business Economist, Norwegian Business School
2009 – Master of Laws, University of Oslo
Lawyer Rankings
Norway > Tax
The ‘highly skilled and very knowledgeable team‘ at Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS assists Norwegian and international corporations and investors with inbound and outbound tax issues, and has particular expertise in tax litigation, corporate real estate work and petroleum taxes. Practice head Morten Platou specialises in national and international taxation, while Morten Sandli is praised as ‘unparalleled in the Norwegian market‘ in tax and corporate law, and Cecilie Amdahl has extensive experience in cross-border matters. The group also includes the ‘exceptionally knowledgeable‘ Hugo Matre, indirect tax expert Trond Larsen, and Jana Johnsen, who specialises in national and international tax.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance (including shipping finance)
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Regulatory, compliance and investigations
- Real estate
- Regulatory, compliance and investigations