Elena is a partner in our Tax Department specialising in the taxation of asset managers, investment funds and their investors.
Elena has a broad practice advising asset managers on the tax issues affecting their businesses and products and institutional investors on their participation in investment structures. Elena's clients include the full spectrum of alternative asset managers from global multi-strategy houses to European based start-up teams.
She advises them on the structuring and formation of private and listed alternative investment funds, remuneration structures including carried interest and co-investment arrangements, the tax aspects of liquidity solutions including GP and LP-led secondary transactions as well as advising them on the complex tax issues affecting their businesses from tax authority enquiries and investigations to restructurings, succession planning and management spin-outs. The majority of Elena's work has an international element.
Elena is a member of the Alternative Credit Council Tax Committee and a member of the Income Tax Sub-Committee of the Law Society. She is regularly invited to speak at conferences and writes for leading tax publications.