Nikolai Kajdalov
Nikolai holds a Master of Law from Wiesbaden, Germany. Prior to joining Vale, he worked for a Big4 firm in Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Toronto and Zurich, where he gained experience in German and international tax law with a focus on real estate transactions, corporate restructurings and (re)financings. Nikolai is a qualified German tax advisor and is […]
Gabriel Flecha
Gabriel C. Flecha is a Tax Underwriter in the London office. Gabriel joined VALE from Natwest, where he focused on tax signoff of cross-border structured finance deals, derivatives, repos, and stock lending transactions. Prior to that, Gabriel was a VP in the JP Morgan Tax team in London. Gabriel has also worked with Tax Advisory […]
Peter Wells
Prior to joining VALE, Peter was Counsel at a large international New York law firm. While in private practice, Peter focused primarily in the fields of taxation, closely-held businesses, and exempt organizations. Peter’s experience also includes general corporate and partnership transactions. Peter’s tax practice includes federal tax matters relating to entity selection, formation, transfer of […]
Willette Elder
In over a decade as a tax attorney, Willette has led teams in due diligence, tax planning and tax structuring in the fields of corporate governance and transactions, international tax implications, exempt organizations, wealth succession and tax credits, among others. While practicing international tax and transactions at a Big 4 accounting firm, Willette primarily supported […]
Mark Hale
Mark is a tax attorney specializing in international M&A and joined VALE from his role as International Tax Counsel for General Electric (London). Mark has analysed tax risks for GE Capital and other GE business lines and led teams of external tax advisors in over 40 different countries. Before GE, Mark practiced US tax law […]