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Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig

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Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig‘s practice has noteworthy expertise in acting for its roster of clients in tax litigation. Anette Fjeld is particularly specialised in handling VAT, insurance and tax disputes. The cohort is led by Fredrik Haberer Anfinsen who provides ’perfect advice’ to his clients and is a tax and M&A expert. Transaction-related tax advisory work forms a significant portion of the team’s workload and includes assisting with contracts, sales and real estate transactions.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘They deliver quickly and provide practical advice.’

  • ‘Extensive and deep legal knowledge. Strong interdisciplinary insight and competence, combined with broad experience and excellent communication skills.'

  • ‘Fredrik Haberer Anfinsen has extensive and deep legal knowledge, is very organised, looks after clients, and delivers well thought-out and high-quality legal advice. He managed our process from start to end in a professional way. Excellent communication skills also.’

  • ‘Kjetil Westby Ranum and Frederik Haberer Anfinsen provide perfect and suitable advice in no time to clients.’

  • ‘Fredrik Haberer Anfinsen is the star in the Norwegian tax sphere and in addition great fun to work with. He provides extremely prompt and diligent advice in no time.’

  • ‘Fredrik Haberer Anfinsen and Kjetil Westby Ranum are best of the best.’

  • ‘SWV's uniqueness is its leading domain expertise in Norwegian tax law, both in the national and international contexts for technology and SaaS organisations like ours.’

  • ‘Fredrick Haberer Anfinsen is our highly valued adviser as we expand our business operations cross-border. He has invested time in understanding our business, and how he can keep us ahead of the game. Together with his in-depth knowledge, he provides us not only with the security that we are fully legally protected where international tax compliancy is concerned, but his contribution also empowers us competitively.'

Key clients

  • Telenor Norge AS
  • Rimfeldt Eiendom AS
  • Enode
  • Kosli
  • Adelis Equity Partners
  • Tibber
  • Coop
  • St1 Norge AS
  • Litorina
  • Zwipe AS

Work highlights

Advising RFTankers on tax matters concerning shipbuilding contracts totalling $160m with Wuhu Shipyard in China for seven chemical tankers, which involves investments from several investors, with London-based RFOcean as the main investor.
Advising AquaShip AS on tax matters concerning a $130m private placement and secondary sale of shares to an investment vehicle managed by American Industrial Partners.
Advising Propcap and the shareholders of Wilog on tax matters concerning a large logistics real estate transaction in Norway, totalling NOK 3bn and comprising 17 premier logistics properties.

Lawyers

Practice head

Fredrik Haberer Anfinsen

Other key lawyers

Anette Fjeld; Kjetil Westby Ranum

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