David H. Halpert

David is one of Boston’s most experienced and respected tax lawyers. For over 30 years, he was a tax partner in a large, multi-city law firm (Mintz Levin) where he advised on mergers and acquisitions, partnership and joint venture structures, private equity investments, finance, executive compensation, and insolvency proceedings.

David is a thought-leader in partnership taxation and teaches the subject at the Boston University School of Law, where he has the title of Adjunct Professor. Coming from a science and mathematics background, he also has deep expertise in financial instruments and leveraged finance transactions. He has published in the Proceedings of the New York University Institute on Federal Taxation, the Federal Tax Institute of New England, and the Boston Bar Journal.

David has mathematics degrees from the University of Michigan (B.S. 1967 with highest honors) and Stanford University (M.S. 1968), a J.D. from Harvard Law School (1971 cum laude), and an LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University (1976). He has been awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship, a National Defense Education Act Fellowship, and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. He is an avid amateur musician, playing woodwinds in a number of Boston-area community and semi-professional orchestras.

Good to know

Areas of Practice 1) Tax Law, 2) mergers and acquisitions, 3) partnership and joint venture structures, 4) private equity investments, 5) finance, 6) executive compensation and 7) and insolvency proceedings.
Law School Boston University (LL.M.,1976);Harvard Law School (J.D.,1971)
Education Stanford University (M.S. 1968);University of Michigan (B.S.,1967)
Bar Member / Association Massachusetts State Bar Association
Most recent firm Blais, Halpert, Lieberman & Greene LLC
LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-halpert-71b21baa
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