Bio

David Halpert is among Boston’s most experienced tax lawyers and has led tax planning for hundreds of transactions having values between $10 million and $500 million. For over 35 years, he was a tax partner at Mintz Levin, where he advised on mergers and acquisitions, partnership and joint venture structures, private equity investments, finance, executive compensation, and insolvency proceedings. David has particular experience with partnerships and for 25 years was Adjunct Professor of Law teaching partnership tax in the Graduate Tax Program (LL.M.) at the Boston University School of Law. 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.