Bettina works with litigation, tax law, company law, professional liability matters, public administration law and EEA law. She is admitted to the Norwegian Supreme Court (since 2006) and litigates regularly before Norwegian courts, in addition to handling a number of administrative cases. She has also litigated before the EFTA Court and filed complaints with the EFTA Surveillance Authority. Bettina regularly advices on issues relating to tax structuring and M&A transactions.
Bettina has a doctoral degree (Dr.juris) in tax law from the University of Oslo and published a book on "Tax avoidance". She received her education from the University of Oslo, Oxford University and Harvard Law School. Bettina is the author of several articles. She was a member of the Tax Law committee, which prepared the Norwegian Official Report NOU:2022:20 "A comprehensive tax system".
In the Norwegian Financial Daily's annual lawyers survey, Bettina is ranked as one of Norway's leading tax lawyers. She is also ranked in band 1 in Chambers International, Chambers Europe and Legal 500 within tax law and HNW. In 2019, she was awarded "Legal performance of the year" in the Norwegian Financial Daily's annual lawyers survey for her work with the property tax case against the municipality of Oslo. In 2021, she was ranked by the Norwegian journal Advokatbladet ["Lawyers' magazine"] as one of hundred lawyers who have contributed to changing Norway during the last hundred years.
"Bettina has brilliant communication skills," a client notes, adding: "She is able to present complicated law in an easy-to-understand, comfortable and logical way."
Selected projects
Work experience
Partner, Wiersholm, 2004
Senior Associate, BAHR, 2002
Fellow, University of Oslo, 1997
Associate, Telenor , 1996
Education
Dr. juris (Phd), University of Oslo, 2003
Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School, 1997
Cand. jur., University of Oslo, 1995
Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law (M.jur), Oxford University, 1993
Memberships / Posts
Member of the committee that was to evaluate aspects of the Norwegian Tax Appeal Committee, 2018 - 2019
Board member, Wilh.Wilhelmsen ASA/Wilh.Wilhelmsen Holding ASA, 2005 - 2016
Member, and later chair, of the Norwegian Bar Association's tax law committee, 2005 - 2015
Board member, Vistin Pharma ASA, 2018 - to date,
Member of the evaluation board for PhD/assistant professor positions,
Accountant for the Nobel Foundation, 2017 - to date,
Member of the Torvik committee, "A comprehensive tax system", Norwegian Official Report 2022:20, 2022
Member of the Norwegian Bar Association's dispute law committee, 2020 - d.d.,
Board member of Christen Sveaas' art foundation, 2019 - to date,
Honours and awards
Highly Regarded, World Tax, Tax, 2024
Women in Tax Leader, World Tax, Tax, 2024
Band 1, Chambers Europe, Tax, 2024
Hall of Fame , Legal 500, Tax, 2024
Topp 3, Advokatundersøkelsen, Finansavisen, Tax law, 2023
Hall of Fame, Legal 500, 2023
Band 1, Chambers Europe, Tax, 2023
Band 1 , Chambers Europe , Tax , 2022
Leading individuals , Legal 500 , Tax, 2022
Band 1, Chambers Europe, Tax, 2021
Leading individuals, Legal 500, Tax, 2021
Band 1, Chambers Europe, Tax, 2020
Leading individuals, Legal 500, Tax, 2020