Practice Areas
Saren focuses her practice on international tax, insurance, reinsurance and insurance tax issues. This includes insurance characterization, structuring of non-US operations, captive insurance companies, reinsurance facilities and swaps, investor tax issues in non-US insurance companies and other insurance specific tax issues, including state taxation of insurance companies and insurance premiums.
She advises on public and private securities offerings, including securitizations, catastrophe bonds and other insurance-linked structures, as well as the structuring of international insurance operations, including the application of tax treaties, US trade or business issues, withholding tax, FET, FATCA, CFC, PFIC and other tax issues arising as a result of cross-border operations. She also advises on the formation and operation of captives and cell companies and tax exempt issues.
Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland (US), Saren served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Herbert L. Chabot at the United States Tax Court.