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Biography

Nikolaj Bjørnholm is an experienced litigator and is one of the few tax lawyers having appeared before the Supreme Court more than 15 times since 2000. He is ranked as a leading tax lawyer in Chambers, Legal 500, Who´s Who Legal, Which Lawyer, and Tax Directors Handbook among others, where clients describe him as “talented”, “intelligent, creative and responsive”, “fast and goes straight to the issue”, “exceptionally good”, and “particularly strong in international tax and litigation”. During his career he has continuously published articles in both Danish and international tax journals, and he has been correspondent to European Taxation. Nikolaj Bjørnholm graduated from the University of Copenhagen in 1991 (LLM) and the Copenhagen Business School in 1996 (Diploma in Economics). Upon graduating in 1991 he spent five months with the EU Commission, after which he has continuously worked as a lawyer (partner) with some of the major Danish / Scandinavian law firms: Bech-Bruun (1992 – 2010), Hannes Snellman (2011 – 2013), and Plesner (2014 – 2016). In 2016 he founded Bjørnholm Law together with Bodil Tolstrup. Nikolaj Bjørnholm is a member of the International Bar Association (officer of the Taxation Committee 2003–2004 and 2009-2010), the American Bar Association, the International Fiscal Association, The Danish Bar Association, and the Danish Tax Lawyer Association.