Elnaz Mehrkhah

Elnaz Mehrkhah is a lawyer and a certified tax advisor. Her area of practice covers all aspects of national and international tax law. She advises on the tax structuring of company acquisitions, real estate transactions, restructurings and the establishment of fund structures and she focuses on tax law advice to high-growth companies, in particular start-ups, venture capital and private equity funds.

Before joining Taylor Wessing, she was an associate in the tax law practice of an international law firm in Frankfurt/Main. Elnaz Mehrkhah regularly publishes in professional journals and holds lectures.

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Career

Since 2020	Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2019 - 2020	Associate, Taylor Wessing
2016 – 2018	Associate, DLA Piper UK LLP

2015 – 2016	Secondment DLA Piper US LLP, Boston and NYC, and DLA UK LLP, Madrid
2007 – 2009	Tutor and student Assistant, various faculties, Law Faculty of JLU Giessen

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Education

2016	Associate, Law
2016	Second state examination
2012	First state examination

2007

Certificate of English Law, Law Faculty of University of Warwick, UK

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Publications

„Fiscal acceptance of losses resulting from the expiration of Knock-Out-Certificates”, Lea Maria Siering/Elnaz Mehrkhah, published in: Bank und Markt, Ausgabe vom 12.05.2019, p. 16.
Co–Editor of the commentary on KAGB and InvStG, Baur/Tappen/Mehrkhah, 4th edition, to be published end of 2019
„Tax Treatment of Offshore Wind Farms – Tax Sovereignty of the Trade Tax on the High Seas”. Falko Tappen/Elnaz Mehrkhah, published in: Nagel/Tappen (publisher), Renewable Energy, 2014 Frankfurt/Main, pp. 349-366.
„Treatment of Real Estate Transfer Tax in the SPA”, Martin Riegel/Marc Fellner/Elnaz Mehrkhah, published in: NWB 2014, pp. 1800-1811.
„Selected Aspects of the Liability of Managing Directors from German and Austrian Tax Law Perspective”, Franz Althuber/Falko Tappen/Elnaz Mehrkhah, published in: ÖStZ 2013, pp. 578-582.
„The proposed Amendments to the Investment Tax Act”, Falko Tappen/Elnaz Mehrkhah, published in: IWB 2013, pp. 239-244.
„The Implementation Act of the EU TAX Recovery Directive”, Falko Tappen/Marc Fellner/Elnaz Mehrkhah, published in: SteuK 2012, pp. 23-27.
Professional and technical support in the preparation of the article “Regulation of so called grey market – Overview of the AIFM Directive”, Falko Tappen, in: IWB 2011, pp. 568-575.
„The Tax Simplification Act 2011 – Enterprise relevant Changes”, Falko Tappen/Elnaz Mehrkhah, published in: SteuK 2011, pp. 423-427

Additional languages

English I Farsi

Expertise

Services and Groups Tax Employee incentives

Experience

Advising General Catalyst on USD 223 million Series B financing

German AI defence company Helsing raises USD 223 (€209) million in capital in a Series B funding round. The round was led by General Catalyst, which was comprehensively advised by our team and led by Berlin-based VC partner Dr Norman Röchert on all legal aspects of the transaction.

Press release

Dr. Norman Röchert, LL.M. (Cape Town)

Felix Paul, LL.M.

Dr. Marco Hartmann-Rüppel, Dipl.-Volkswirt

Dr. Michael Brüggemann

Malke Kristina Zimmermann

Tim Hendricks

Nico Jänicke

Dr. Thomas Hohe, LL.M. (Virginia)

Sophie Burmeister

Dr Bert Kimpel

Elnaz Mehrkhah