David H. Halpert
Partner Emeritus
dhalpert@blaistaxlaw.com
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Retirement Announcement: David H. Halpert
Blais Halpert Tax Partners LLP announces the retirement of David H. Halpert from the active practice of law, effective December 31, 2025.
David’s distinguished legal career spans more than five decades, during which he became one of Boston’s most experienced and respected tax lawyers. David will continue his association with the firm as Partner Emeritus and will remain involved as a consultant on client matters.
David earned a B.S. in Mathematics with highest honors from the University of Michigan in 1967 and an M.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1968, before receiving his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1971 and an LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University School of Law in 1976.
David began his legal career as a patent lawyer before soon pivoting to tax, where he would make his mark. In 1974, he joined Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., and remained there as “partner” for 40 years. Even at the outset of his career, David demonstrated the judgment and foresight that would define his professional life—famously noting in his original offer letter that he would not be responsible for advising on “the recently enacted Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.”
Over the course of his career, David advised clients on a wide range of complex tax matters, bringing a rare combination of technical mastery, practical judgment, and professionalism to his work. He was a trusted advisor to generations of clients.
David was a patient, enthusiastic, and gifted teacher—both in the classroom at Boston University and within his firm, where he mentored many younger lawyers—some of whom continue to thrive today as his partners at Blais Halpert Tax Partners LLP. As adjunct professor, he taught partnership tax in the Boston University Graduate Tax Program for more than 25 years. He regularly received high feedback scores from his students. His favorite feedback comment is, “Partnerships is a very complicated subject and Professor Halpert does his best to explain it.”
In 2014, David co-founded Blais Halpert Tax Partners LLP and helped shape a firm defined by technical expertise, emphasis on practical and useful advice to clients, and collegiality. His influence is deeply embedded in the firm’s culture and in the many lawyers he has trained and inspired.
Beyond his legal career, David was well known for his passions: stock market investing and musical performance. David could often be seen with stock charts and the Investors Business Daily and was happy to teach colleagues the ins and outs of the investment world. David was also an accomplished concert musician, regularly performing on clarinet and bassoon in orchestras and ensembles around New England and South America.
We are deeply grateful to David for his foundational contributions to the firm and its lawyers, and for his many years as our partner, counselor, and friend. We congratulate him on a well-deserved retirement and thank him for the extraordinary impact he has had on all of us.
About Blais HALPERT TAX PARTNERS LLP:
Blais Halpert Tax Partners LLP is a transactional tax boutique focused on tax-sensitive structuring and implementation of high-value business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, growth company startup and financing, private equity and venture capital investments, fund formations, real estate, and executive compensation arrangements. We help structure, negotiate, and draft to ensure the most tax-efficient achievement of our clients’ objectives.
We are fluent in the most important business entities, from C and S corporations to partnerships and LLCs to investment and grantor trusts. Much of our work is international in nature, advising on cross-border acquisitions, sales, and investments.
A cornerstone of our practice is serving as tax co-counsel to corporate lawyers and non-U.S. law firms who need top-tier U.S. tax support for their clients’ business transactions. We regard our co-counsel as our partners in delivering seamless, practical, efficient, and valuable service to clients. Our practice is nationwide and we work regularly wherever one finds fast-growing and middle market companies, including Boston, New York, Miami, Chicago, Austin, Denver/Boulder, and Silicon Valley. In our international practice, our clients are from, or expanding to, diverse locales, including Toronto, London, Moscow, Mumbai, Hong Kong, and Melbourne.
We offer a unique value proposition in providing sophisticated transactional tax advice to the middle market, which is underserved by many of the “specialty” law areas. We bring expertise, efficiency, an understanding of how tax advice integrates with non-tax legal and business objectives, and most of all, the ability to communicate tax law to non-tax lawyers and business clients.