Former Mintz Levin tax partners launch transactional tax boutique
David Halpert and Travis Blais have launched a new tax boutique called Blais & Halpert LLC. The firm is focused on tax-sensitive structuring and implementation of high-value business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, fund formations, and executive compensation arrangements.
A cornerstone of the practice is serving as U.S. tax co-counsel to corporate boutiques and small to moderately sized law firms without their own in-house tax staff.
David Halpert is one of Boston’s most experienced tax lawyers. For over 30 years, David 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 also teaches partnership tax at the Boston University School of Law, where he has the title of Adjunct Professor. 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.
Travis Blais is a business tax lawyer with more than a decade of experience in large, international law firms (Jones Day and Mintz Levin). He has served as lead tax counsel on transactions up to $500 million and materially contributed to deal teams conducting multi-billion dollar transactions. He advises, directly or with co-counsel, on high-value business transactions for corporations, pass-through entities, non-U.S. entities, and individual executives and entrepreneurs.
For nonprofit institutions, Travis has niche experience with tax-exempt organizations, particularly in the education, health care, philanthropy, political, and trade association areas. He advises their compliance and business functions on alternative investment activities, unrelated business income tax, joint ventures, reporting and disclosure issues, executive compensation, and general operations.
He has a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University (1995) and a J.D. From the University of Virginia School of Law (2000).
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