Elena is a partner in our Tax Department, specialising in the taxation of private capital managers, investment funds and their investors.
She advises on all aspects of the structuring and formation of private and listed investment funds across the alternative asset classes. She also advises on the tax aspects of liquidity solutions including GP and LP-led secondary transactions.
Her clients include the full spectrum of alternative private capital managers from global multi-strategy houses to European based start-up teams. She advises them on the wide range of complex tax issues affecting their businesses.
The majority of Elena's work has an international element.
Elena works closely with trade associations – she is a member of the BVCA's technical working group on carried interest, a member of the Alternative Credit Council's Tax Committee, a member of Invest Europe's Tax Committee, and a member of the Income Tax Sub-Committee of the Law Society. She is regularly involved in discussions with HMRC and HM Treasury on the enactment of complex new legislation.