Saba Ashraf

Saba is a tax strategist who provides straightforward and practical guidance on all aspects of planning and operational issues. She offers decades of experience with private equity firms, REITS, and funds, applying a deep understanding of the nuances that impact her clients’ goals.

Saba advises private equity (PE) firms, real estate investment trusts (REITS), and domestic and international funds throughout their business cycle.

Saba works closely with PE firms on the tax-related issues related to domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other complex transactions, helping to maximize their opportunities. Known for translating complicated tax concepts into actionable business options, she works with several of the largest and most active firms in the U.S. to plan, structure, and negotiate their deals.

Saba provides comprehensive guidance to funds, including advice on formation, investments, and operational issues. Her work includes planning and structuring of domestic and international private investment funds, such as venture capital, hedge, buyout, and real estate funds. She also helps tax-exempt and non-U.S. entities to structure their investments.

Equally experienced in the real estate sector, Saba offers depth across a wide range of real estate transactions. She provides creative solutions in connection with formation, operational issues, investments in or through REITs, complex real estate joint ventures, REIT mergers and acquisitions, and real estate investments by U.S. and non-U.S. investors, including foreign governments.

Past chair, Limited Liability Company and Other Unincorporated Entities (LOUIE) Committee, Philadelphia Bar Association, Business Law Section

Past member, Conference Advisory Board, Philadelphia Tax Conference

Past chair, Tax Committee, American Bar Association, Business Law Section

Former member, Board of Directors, Georgia Asian Pacific Bar Association

Past Chair, Business Law Section’s Tax Committee, American Bar Association

Former charter member, Atlanta Chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE)

Former charter member, Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North America (OPEN-Atlanta)

Programming co-chair, 2010 NASABA Annual Convention, North American South Asian Bar Association