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Tax is a field known for frequent changes. The changes are often extensive, and companies can face significant consequences if they make mistakes.

Taxation questions are often critical during the restructuring of a company, incentive schemes for employees, acquisitions, or the sale of all or parts of a company. Taxation issues can also be key during succession planning.

Our lawyers can assist in understanding regulations and finding suitable solutions to your challenges.

We can assist with:

business transfers
mergers, demergers and other equity transactions
restructuring and reorganisation of companies
succession planning
incentive schemes for employees
international employees
international tax issues
tax controls and tax audits
tax complaints and tax proceedings before the courts

The team is ranked in Tier 4 by the ranking agency The Legal 500 (2024) and World Tax ranks it in Band 3 (2024) within Indirect tax, General corporate tax, Tax controversy and Transactional tax. World Tax also notes that "Bull & Co is a versatile full-service firm with peer review endorsement. The firm advises on M&A transactions, commercial real estate, and technology with orientation in the audit and accountancy sectors. Partner Einar Heiberg is practice head. Transaction specialist Jan Martin Fjellestad and VAT expert Morten Fjermeros are notable fellow partners.The firm assisted Arkon Energy, with the acquisition of cryptocurrency mining facility Hydrokraft AS. It also acted for Fasadgruppen with subsidiary acquisitions during a reorganisation phase." (2024)

Additionally, The Legal 500 notes in their 2024 edition that "Bull & Co Advokatfirma AS' practice ‘always delivers‘ and advises on tax issues in the construction, aquaculture, real estate, technology, and energy sectors. Leading the practice, Einar Heiberg is a seasoned litigator who specializes in general corporate tax, tax controversies, and transactional tax work. The group also includes ‘brilliant tax lawyer‘ Jan Martin Fjellestad, who focuses on transactional tax and general corporate tax mandates, and the ‘thorough, technical, and commercial‘ Morten Fjermeros, who advises on general corporate taxes, tax controversies, and indirect tax work, particularly in the energy and real estate sectors."

The Legal 500 quotes clients as follows:

"The Bull & Co tax team is great, knowledgeable, thorough and creative. The advice is very clear, and the team has very strong analytical skills. Extremely client service focused. This is a tax group that always delivers." (2024)