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Hilde Thorstad

PwC

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Highly Regarded
  • Women in Tax Leader
Practice Areas:
Tax controversy
Transactional tax
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
Norwegian
English
Biography

Hilde Thorstad has worked as tax advisor and advocate for large multinational companies since she finished law school in 1999. Hilde is head of our shipping and oil service tax practice and is an expert on international tax issues, foreign tax regimes, restructurings (domestic and cross border), EU/EEA tax and tonnage tax. She has significant experience in providing tax planning, structuring, acquisition, compliance, dispute resolution and transfer pricing services for Norwegian and multinational corporations within the finance, energy, oil service and shipping/offshore industry. Hilde has practical experience as hired-in Tax Director for a large Norwegian owned group.

Key practice areas
  • Corporate tax matters: Corporate taxes
  • Corporate tax matters: Restructuring
  • Tax advisory: International tax advisory
  • Corporate tax matters: M&A
  • Corporate tax matters: Financial services
  • Transfer pricing: International Tax Planning
  • Dispute resolution: Dispute resolution
  • Tax advisory: Tax consulting
Sector specialisations
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Oil and gas
  • Shipping
Academic qualifications
  • 1991: Law degree University of Oslo
Address:
Dronning Eufemias gate 71
0194 Oslo
Tel:+4795260548 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.pwc.no/en.html