Forrest David Milder
Partner

Practice Areas

Experience

Forrest David Milder has more than 30 years’ experience in tax-advantaged investments including the tax credits that apply to affordable housing, energy, new markets and historic rehabilitation, as well as the tax treatment of partnerships and LLCs, tax-exempt organizations, business formation, operation and disposition, tax-exempt bonds, and other structured financial products.

Mr. Milder regularly addresses the tax consequences of project development using equity and debt, and he has rendered dozens of tax opinions to leading institutional investors, including MMA, Centerline, Apollo, Sun America, Column, Aegon, Fannie Mae, NEF, Bank of America, the Massachusetts Housing Equity Fund and others. He has also provided tax advice and rendered the opinions for the raising of several billion dollars using REMICs and other trust vehicles.

Mr. Milder is the 2009-2010 Chair of the American Bar Association's Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development where he also runs the association’s listserv computer-discussion group. He is a frequent speaker, and the author of numerous tax articles as well as the BNA treatise on low income and historic tax credits. He was a Lecturer in Law at Boston University Law School from 1990-95, and a guest lecturer at the University of Michigan Law School in 2002.

Mr. Milder has been listed several times in “Marquis’s Who’s Who in American Law” and in Boston Magazine’s “Massachusetts Super Lawyers.” He has also been recognized as a “New England Super Lawyer” in Tax law based on a peer-review survey by Boston Magazine (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007).

Admissions

Mr. Milder is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, as well as before the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the First Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Tax Court, and the United States Court of Federal Claims.

Education

Boston University, LL.M.
Harvard Law School, J.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.M.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.B. (Phi Beta Kappa)

Affiliations

Mr. Milder is the author of the treatise Rehabilitation Tax Credit and Low Income Housing Tax Credit, published by the Bureau of National Affairs.  He is a member of the Boston Bar Association is the former chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge. For several years, he was a lecturer in the law at Boston University School of Law.