Jan Steen Hansen

For more than 20 years, Jan Steen Hansen has worked intensively with direct and indirect taxes. He advises Danish and foreign companies, pension funds, foundations, associations, public institutions and private individuals on matters relating to direct and indirect taxes. Jan is an experienced and recognised tax specialist, focusing, among other things, on tax in connection with M&A transactions, taxation of pension funds, company and shareholder tax, equity and venture funds, financial products, EU and international tax, VAT and other indirect taxes as well as tax in Greenland. Jan also assists our clients with obtaining advance tax rulings from the Danish tax authorities. A substantial part of his work involves complaints proceedings before the National Tax Tribunal and tax cases before the courts. Finally, Jan holds several positions of trust, providing him with first-hand knowledge of, among other things, new tax legislation and tax practice. · Gorrissen Federspiel

DenmarkTax, Indirect Tax & VAT

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Jan Steen Hansen is an experienced tax specialist with more than 20 years’ experience advising Danish and foreign companies, pension funds, foundations, public institutions and private individuals on direct and indirect tax matters. His practice focuses on tax aspects of M&A, pension funds, company and shareholder taxation, funds and financial products, EU and international tax, VAT and tax in Greenland, as well as advance tax rulings and tax litigation.

Practice areas

TaxIndirect Tax & VATMergers & AcquisitionsPensionsFunds & Private EquityInternational TaxTax LitigationFinancial Services

Office

Denmark

Gorrissen Federspiel · For more than 20 years, Jan Steen Hansen has worked intensively with direct and indirect taxes. He advises Danish and foreign companies, pension funds, foundations, associations, public institutions and private individuals on matters relating to direct and indirect taxes. Jan is an experienced and recognised tax specialist, focusing, among other things, on tax in connection with M&A transactions, taxation of pension funds, company and shareholder tax, equity and venture funds, financial products, EU and international tax, VAT and other indirect taxes as well as tax in Greenland. Jan also assists our clients with obtaining advance tax rulings from the Danish tax authorities. A substantial part of his work involves complaints proceedings before the National Tax Tribunal and tax cases before the courts. Finally, Jan holds several positions of trust, providing him with first-hand knowledge of, among other things, new tax legislation and tax practice.

Denmark

Expertise

Tax in M&A transactionsTaxation of pension fundsCompany and shareholder taxEquity and venture fundsFinancial productsEU and international taxVAT and other indirect taxesTax in GreenlandAdvance tax rulings from Danish tax authoritiesComplaints before the National Tax Tribunal and tax litigation

Education

Right of audience before the Danish Supreme Court, 2005
LLM in international finance law, trust law, international tax law and EU & competition law, King's College London, 1998–1999
Master of Law, University of Copenhagen, 1992

Admissions

Right of audience before the Danish Supreme Court (2005)