Sara Monzet

Sara is an associate in the Tax Department of Winston & Strawn’s New York office who concentrates her practice in transactional tax matters.

Sara assists domestic and multinational clients on a variety of private equity and other transactional issues, including business formations, financing, securities offerings, Subpart F issues, fund formation and private equity investment issues. She also assists clients on private foundation and charitable organization matters, including obtaining and maintaining their tax exempt status.

Prior to joining Winston, Sara worked as a staff attorney for a financial nonprofit organization, where she represented clients in federal and state tax audits and assisted them with bankruptcy, debt collection and student loan matters. She also assisted the nonprofit through a merger with another nonprofit corporation, and acted as their Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program Director, overseeing the free preparation of more than 15,000 federal and New York state tax returns for low-income New Yorkers.