Elena Romanova

Elena Romanova advises clients on tax matters related to structured finance, insurance, and derivatives, as well as cryptocurrency and digital assets.

Elena guides reinsurers, banks, financial institutions, capital market issuers, digital asset treasury companies, and other entities and investors through complex, cross-border tax issues involving:

• Insurance and reinsurance vehicles
• Asset-backed finance and securitizations
• Structured finance
• Equity and other derivative transactions, such as structured notes, convertible debt securities, and swaps and forward contracts
• Digital assets and fintech transactions
• International taxation, including cross-border finance, withholding tax and information reporting matters

She leverages extensive in-house leadership experience and a sophisticated understanding of client objectives to help companies mitigate risk and take advantage of commercial opportunities.

A recognized thought leader on evolving areas of tax law, she speaks and writes regularly on tax issues related to financing, derivatives, and the financial industry more broadly.

Elena is a former chair of the American Bar Association Tax Committee’s Financial Institutions and Products Subcommittee and a co-chair of the Financial Instruments Subcommittee of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section’s Executive Committee.

Before joining Latham, she was a managing director at Citigroup, where she served as global head of the Business Tax Advisory.

She also practiced for several years at another major New York firm and served as a tax policy fellow at the US Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Policy. While at Citi, Elena served on the Board of Directors of the Wall Street Tax Association.