Allie Petrova focuses exclusively on business and taxation matters. A broad base of knowledge enables Allie to view a matter from tax, business, and financial perspectives. She provides clients with strategic legal advice ranging from choice of entity analysis and formation, day-to-day matters, acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures, and exits. She handles tax disputes and represents individuals and businesses before the Internal Revenue Service and in the U.S. Tax Court.
Attorney Petrova developed her tax and transactional expertise as a senior M&A tax consultant at Ernst & Young in New York City. In New York, Allie focused on complex tax structuring and planning for transactions of $5 million to $1 billion. She advised a wide range of domestic and international business entities. Before founding Petrova Law, she practiced corporate and tax law with Schell Bray PLLC in downtown Greensboro. Attorney Petrova has worked at the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Petrova received her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, one of the top legal programs in the nation as reported by U.S. News. She completed her advanced tax law studies with an LL.M. in Taxation degree also from Georgetown Law. Ms. Petrova’s well rounded legal education includes an LL.M. in International Economic Law degree from a bilingual program at The Sorbonne in Paris. Attorney Petrova received her B.S. degree in Business Administration and Economics with a Finance concentration, summa cum laude, with departmental honors from Greensboro College.