Women in Tax Leaders

France
Sabina Comis
Admitted to the Paris Bar and qualified in the UK as a solicitor
of England and Wales, Sabina Comis is a tax partner and international
co-leader of the Private Investment Funds group of
Mayer Brown.
She has 18 years of wide–ranging tax experience with a
strong emphasis on complex corporate tax structurings and
financial restructurings, both in France and internationally. She
also regularly represents clients in tax dispute resolutions.
Sabina has further become a recognised expert on the creation
and structuring of private investment funds (private equity
or real estate vehicles, and joint ventures, among others). Her
tax experience, coupled with her funds’ legal and regulatory
know-how, allows Sabina to advise on tailor-made, innovative
structures for investments in France and throughout Europe,
such as the setting up of: (i) the first dedicated European
provider of mezzanine and preferred equity financing for private
equity portfolios; (ii) the first French regulated and leveraged
investment vehicle for the purchase of discounted debt; and (iii)
the first French type endowment fund.
Mayer Brown
20 Avenue Hoche
75008 Paris
France
Tel: +33 1 53 53 36 24
Fax: +33 1 53 96 03 83
Email: scomis@mayerbrown.com
Website: www.mayerbrown.com
Sabina regularly speaks at conferences and is a tax lecturer at the University of Dauphine
in Paris (Master 2 of Tax “Fiscalité de l’Entreprise”).
Sabina joined Mayer Brown in 2007 after 10 years of practice with two of the UK’s ‘Magic
Circle’ firms (having worked in their London and New York tax teams for four years and in
their Paris tax teams for more than five years).
She holds an LLB from the London School of Economics and an LLM from Cambridge
University in the UK.
In addition to her native Italian, Sabina is fluent in French and English.
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