Howard Cubell is a member and former chair of the Tax Practice at Goodwin Procter LLP. Mr. Cubell’s practice focuses on the development of innovative tax strategies for various domestic and international business transactions and collective investment vehicles, with particular emphasis on representing private equity sponsors in acquiring, disposing of and recapitalizing portfolio companies.

Mr. Cubell has been at the forefront in developing creative structures for private equity funds to use in doing leveraged buyouts overseas and for making investments in domestic pass-through entities such as Subchapter S corporations, partnerships and LLCs. He has also represented a number of clients in tax controversies with the Internal Revenue Service at the Appeals Office of the IRS, the U.S. Tax Court and the Federal District Courts.