Hughes Hubbard & Reed promotes Alan Kravitz to tax partner

Hughes Hubbard & Reed has announced that effective Jan. 1, Alan Kravitz and Dustin Smith have been promoted to the partnership. 

Kravitz is a member of Hughes Hubbard’s Tax department, and Smith is a member the Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy group; both are based in New York.

Kravitz focuses his practice on the tax aspects of domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and structured finance. He has deep experience in aviation finance and equipment finance transactions, and has provided tax advice to underwriters, issuers, lenders and other involved parties. He regularly assists companies and funds with tax matters relating to structuring and implementing the acquisition and disposition of subsidiaries and portfolio companies, both domestic and multinational, and bank financings, debt restructurings and capital markets offerings, with a particular focus on the media and technology, telecommunications and transport and logistics sectors.

He graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in physics, and received his J.D., also from Columbia, where he was a James Kent Scholar and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.