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Valentina Farle

Counsel
Frankfurt
+49.(0).69.945.196.295
Fax +49.(0).69.945.196.499

Primary Practice

Education

  • LL.M., University of Sheffield, 2001
  • Second Legal State Exam, Berlin, 2000
  • First Legal State Exam, Berlin, 1997

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Biography Overview
  • Additional Background
  • Representative Work
Valentina Farle is a counsel in the firm’s Frankfurt office and a member of the tax practice group. She advises on national and cross-border acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures, financings and fund structurings. She offers comprehensive tax advice on transactions, in particular in the areas of real estate investments, privatizations and public private partnerships, and also focuses on advising businesses on their ongoing tax matters of a more complex nature.

Professional Background

Valentina Farle joined K&L Gates in August 2011. Prior to joining the firm she worked for many years from 2001 in the area of tax law for a leading international law firm and subsequently for a German law firm. In 2005 she qualified as a German Specialist Lawyer for Tax Law (Fachanwältin für Steuerrecht), and has been a German Certified Tax Advisor (Steuerberaterin) since 2009.

Professional/Civic Activities

Ms. Farle is a member of the German branch of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and was a co-founder and long-time coordinator of the Berlin branch.

Speaking Engagements

Ms. Farle lectures on, among other topics, partnerships in international tax law, the tax treatment of leasing and factoring, tax aspects of real estate inbound investments and on investment taxation.

Additional Information

Ms. Farle writes articles on the tax treatment of public private partnerships and is a regular contributor to Immobilienzeitung. She is also the co-author of the Münchener Handbuch des Gesellschaftsrechts, Personengesellschaften im Internationalen Steuerrecht, Handbuch der Immobilieninvestitionen and Understanding German Real Estate.
  • Advising a German consumer goods group with worldwide production and distribution activities on the restructuring of the German as well as the foreign businesses
  • Advising on the refinancing of a European real estate private equity fund
  • Advising on the purchase of a publicly-listed, international real estate private equity fund by an Australian real estate private equity fund with international institutional investors as well as on the subsequent post-acquisition restructuring
  • Advising on the sale of a Hessian clinic group with numerous partnerships and corporations by way of a share and an asset deal to an international private equity fund respectively a competitor
  • Advising on the purchase of a Luxembourg banking corporation by a German public banking group
  • Advising on the purchase of a high rise complex by a German insurance group
  • Advising a German investment management company on a joint venture between a German open-ended real estate fund and an international real estate investor regarding a shopping center in Berlin
  • Advising a private bidder consortium on the participation in a competitive tendering procedure regarding the ‘A-Model’ (public private partnership toll-financed freeway construction)
  • Advising one of the last two bidders on the auction process for the Woba Dresden Group
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