DLA Piper’s Nordic tax team is in a unique position to offer independent, cross-border tax law advice.
Tax
Our tax team includes more than 20 lawyers committed to tax law (both direct and indirect taxes), and DLA Piper is the only global law firm with a truly pan-Nordic presence. We regularly provide high-end tax advice on large M&A transactions, and act in a standalone capacity for a wide range of leading Nordic corporate groups. As part of DLA Piper, we have access to an almost unmatched number of tax lawyers around the world. This enables us to provide comprehensive advice in relation to cross-border transactions and operations as well as the international relocation of employees. Our clients benefit from our first-class domestic and international tax capabilities.
The team is known for advising clients on tex litigation issues and transactional tax issues, including those related to M&A deals, international restructurings and tax audits. Together with our colleagues from other practice groups, we provide a Nordic one-stop shop. We engage our global team and knowledge in assisting inbound investors and multinational companies headquartered in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden in multi-jurisdictional tax issues.
Client quotations from legal directories
“What creates enormous value for me is that they are businessmen. They know what they want to achieve. I could talk to them about our goals and I know they would understand what I was talking about.”
“They are very quick in providing input that is to the point and delivered on time.”
The tax team operates on a regional, national and global basis, which means that services can be provided cost-effectively with a consistently high service by any of our offices in the Nordic region.
Headcount
The Nordic tax group consist of more than 20 lawyers across the region.
- Assisted a client with Nordic restructuring work.
- Advised a client on the restructuring of their Nordic operations involving IP, taxation and M&A.
- Advised a client on the restructuring of their Nordic operations from a corporate structure into a branch structure with a Danish head office.
- Advised a client on dealing with substantial carried forward tax losses in their Nordic operations.
- Assisted a large European private equity firm with an LBO transaction and the acquisition of a Nordic target group.
- Assisted a shipping client with a tax analysis of sales with excise duties to Swedish corporate customers and private individuals.
- Advised a client on tax and social security issue in a matter concerning the posting of aviation personnel to Sweden in the context of commercial labour supply.
- Advised a client on legal and tax matters relating to Swedish domestic and cross-border issues linked to its restructuring.
- Advised a client where we identified a solution for the distribution of dividends. The dividend distribution was initially disallowed by the client's auditors and the Norwegian Institute of Public Auditors, but they had to change their guidelines to Norwegian companies for such matters.
- Advised several Norwegian companies in order to meet the current and new interest deduction rules.
- Advised a leading Sweden based global project development group on VAT and other tax matters in relation to several real estate sales and purchases, as well as provided general advice on real estate tax law.
- Representing a leading international holding company in a tax audit where one of the subsidiaries has been disallowed to carry forward a tax loss of NOK 150 million.
- Advised a global private equity house on tax litigation involving an interpretation of the Swedish interest deduction rules.
- Advised US-based private equity houses on the structuring of inbound investments in Swedish Funds.
