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.

Work for Clients

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.

Professional Activities

Mr. Cubell has been named to the top tier of leading tax attorneys by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, as well as in Best Lawyers in America. He was also recently selected by the International Tax Review as one of the 10 top tax advisors on the East Coast of the United States. Mr. Cubell recently organized and served as the Co-Chairman of “Private Equity Tax Practices,” a major conference in Boston sponsored by the Institute for International Research.

Mr. Cubell is a member of the International Tax Committee of the Boston Bar Association, of which he was the founding chairman, and a member of the Committee on Corporate Tax of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association and the Tax Section of the International Bar Association.

Publications/Presentations

Mr. Cubell served as Articles Editor of the Boston University Law Review in 1972-1973.

Bar and Court Admissions

Mr. Cubell is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York.

Education

J.D., Boston University School of Law, 1973
B.A., University of Michigan, 1970

Mr. Cubell also attended the New York University Graduate Tax Program.