Howard A Cubell

Howard Cubell is a member and former chair of the Tax practice at Goodwin. Howard’s practice focuses on the development of innovative tax strategies for various domestic and international business transactions, with particular emphasis on representing private equity sponsors in acquiring, disposing of and recapitalizing portfolio companies. He has represented a vast number of private equity sponsors over the course of his career, beginning at the very dawn of the private equity industry in the late 1970's. In addition to his transactional work, Howard has also developed an extensive tax controversy practice representing private equity and VC sponsors and their portfolio companies in tax disputes with the Internal Revenue Service on a variety of issues, including the deductibility of transaction-related expenses in sales of portfolio companies and management fee waivers.

JD, Boston University School of Law 1973; BA, University of Michigan 1970; New York University Graduate Tax Program