Ms. Farr is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Tax Department. She concentrates in the taxation of corporate finance, derivatives and structured finance and on domestic and international tax planning for financial institutions. Ms. Farr has advised financial institutions and issuers in the development and execution of complex public and private financial products designed to achieve capital raising, hedging or other objectives. She has also done significant work representing investment funds and insurance companies.

Ms. Farr has lectured and participated on panels before professional groups on financial products and international taxation and has written articles for publications, including Tax Notes and The Journal of Taxation of Financial Products.

She joined Davis Polk in 1995 and became a partner in 2003.

Ms. Farr graduated, cum laude, from Harvard College in 1992 and in 1995 received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was editor in chief of the Yale Journal on Regulation. In 1999, she received an LL.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law.

She is a vice-chair of the Financial Transactions Committee of the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association.