Tax Advisers - Deloitte

Norway
Bjørn Kleiven
BDO Noraudit Advokater DA
Munkedamsveien 45
PO Box 1704, Vika
N-0121 Oslo
Norway
Tel: (47) 23 11 91 00
Fax: (47) 23 11 92 30
Email: bjorn.kleiven@bdonoraudit.no
Website: www.bdonoraudit.no
Bjørn Kleiven is partner at BDO Noraudit Advokater DA.
Bjørn Kleiven advises Norwegian and foreign clients on domestic and international tax
issues, as well as company law, accounting law and related areas. He has for many years
specialized in mergers, demergers, acquisitions and reorganizations of business
activities, and planning and reorganization of family-owned businesses. He has been
involved in several large company takeovers and reorganizations.
Bjørn Kleiven graduated from the University of Oslo in 1976, and specialized in
taxation. He was admitted to the Bar in 1983. He is also a member of IFA.
Bjørn Kleiven has been lecturing and writing on tax issues for many years, and has also
been teaching tax law at the College of Economics in Oslo.
After two years with the tax authorities he joined Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co, first
as an assistant accountant in The Hague, and then as a tax lawyer in Oslo. He has been
counsel and legal adviser to the Accountants Tax Information Office (Institute of
Chartered Accountants as well as Registered Accountants), and has been in charge of
tax departments in AS Revision/Deloitte Haskins & Sells and Ernst & Whinney. For
eight years Bjørn Kleiven was a partner and led the tax practice at Advokatfirmaet
Selmer DA.
BDO Noraudit Advokater DA is an independent law firm. The firm specializes in
domestic and international taxation, VAT and customs duties, company law and
accounting law and regulations. The companies law and accounting law effective from
1999 raised a range of issues with regard to mergers and acquisitions and
reorganizations of business activities in Norway, and so has the tax reform in 2004-
2006. The firm can work in teams with other entities in BDO Noraudit throughout
Norway, as well as with other law firms and international networks, BDO and others.
BDO Noraudit is among the big five accounting and consulting groups in Norway.
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