Xenia Legendre

Xenia Legendre works with multinational groups and investment funds to structure their cross border transactions. She acts in all environments – M&A, restructuring, distressed acquisition or disposition. Creative, solution oriented, Xenia pays specific attention to the connection between tax structures and business operations. Having a solid corporate M&A background, Xenia perfectly understands the deal dynamics. Working closely with corporate deal teams, Xenia is very strong in 'selling' the most efficient structures to all parties. She is quite successful in integrating all possible parameters (tax, corporate, labour, and environmental, etc) towards achieving an efficient solution.

Xenia's career has been entirely in private practice with major international law firms. Xenia joined Hogan Lovells in 2008 and leads the tax group. Throughout her 20+ plus years as international tax lawyer, Xenia has probably seen and worked on all possible international structures in major jurisdictions worldwide. At Hogan Lovells her work gets a great benefit from the tax network of the firm covering all important countries. In perfect cooperation with the transfer pricing group of the firm, Xenia helps clients to adjust their internal set up to the most optimal tax result while complying with all current trends in the international taxation.

Xenia has a broad client base from the US and Europe. Leveraging her language and multicultural skills, Xenia also works with Russian origin clients. She helps them to design European and international holding and business structures, fully compliant with highest European standards.