Dechert LLP

Tax

Partner

Sabina Comis, global managing partner, advises French and international companies, family offices, private equity funds and investment banks on domestic and international tax structuring that arise from complex corporate transactions, restructurings and refinancings, often involving multiple sponsors. She also has a wealth of experience in creating and structuring private investment funds, including joint ventures and private equity vehicles. Ms. Comis also helps clients shape post-Brexit strategy and provides guidance on related tax issues.

She is one of the few practitioners in France equipped to offer both tax advice and handle the legal and regulatory sides of fund formation. Her ability to address private equity and funds matters as an industry expert as well as a tax practitioner enables her to translate advice into tangible figures and models. By partnering with clients in their most business-critical situations, she has created some notable precedents in the French market, for example in developing innovative structuring in relation to the modeling of cash repatriations, waterfall mechanisms in private equity deals and funds documentation. Over the years, she has been a trusted advisor to many French and global private equity fund managers for the tax structuring of their carried interest rights.

French, Italian, English

The London School of Economics and Political Science, LL.B., 1995; University of Cambridge, LL.M., Commercial Law, 1996; The College of Law, London, 1997