Anette Fjeld specialises in litigation and dispute resolution, with special expertise in insurance and tort law as well as tax and excise law.

Anette Fjeld is specializing in dispute resolution, with expertise in insurance and tort litigation, as well as tax and VAT litigation.

Fjeld has experience from both sides of the judge’s bench. She has more than ten years of experience as a lawyer at Gjensidige Forsikring and at Deloitte. In Gjensidige Forsikring she handled a large number of insurance disputes before the courts, including liability insurance claims, recourse claims, professional liability claims and also board members liability disputes

At Deloitte, Fjeld headed up the department of tax and VAT litigation. She was lead lawyer in a large number of tax and VAT cases before the courts in both national and international tax law.  Cases included group contribution cases, interest deduction limitation disputes and various situations where the Norwegian tax authorities disregard the contractual terms set up by the taxpayer , cases regarding allocation of profits, as well as cases regarding the taxability of offshore activities and the taxability of international personnel located offshore Norway.

Fjeld has wide experience from litigation before the district courts, the courts of appeals, the Supreme Court of Norway and the supranational EFTA Court. She was admitted to the Supreme Court in 2019 and has litigated both insurance law cases and tax law/tax treaty cases before this court.

Fjeld has also served as judge for 6 years. She has been appointed acting judge in Borgarting Court of Appeal and deputy judge in Oslo District Court. She has significant experience in leading main hearings and hearings of appeal, giving judgments and mediate cases as judicial mediator. She is now appointed as external judicial mediator to Borgarting Court of Appeal and the district courts in its jurisdiction.

CV

Work Experience

2022 - (today) Partner, Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig AS
2018 - 2021 Partner and head of tax and VAT litigation, Advokatfirmaet Deloitte AS
2011 - 2018 Attorney, Gjensidige Forsikring ASA
2016 Acting Jugde, Borgarting Court of Appeal
2007 - 2011 Deputy Judge, Oslo District Court
2006 - 2007 Deputy Judge, Sør-Østerdal District Court
2004 - 2006 Associate, Advokatfirmaet Haavind Vislie AS

Education

2019 Admitted to the Supreme Court
2002 - 2003 Master of Law, LL.M., L’Université de Paris, Sorbonne, France
2000 - 2003 Cand. Jur, University of Oslo, the Faculty of law
1995 - 2000 Cand. Mag, University of Oslo

Appointments

2021 JUC network Tax law – Network leader
2018 Member of the Board, executive board, Norges Juristforbund (The Norwegian Association of Lawyers)
2013 - 2014 Member of the working group in Finans Norge
2007 - 2009 Leader of the Deputy judge group

Publications

Håndbok i skatte- og avgiftsprosedyre (Handbook in tax and VAT litigation), co-writter together with Daniel M. H. Herde, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 2021
Svik i saker etter yrkesskadeforsikringsloven (Fraud in cases regarding industrial injury insurance), Tidsskrift for erstatningsrett, forsikringsrett og trygderett, 2016