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Forrest David Milder

Recognized by Best Lawyers® since 2013.
Exchange Place, 53 State Street Boston, Massachusetts 02109-2835
(617) 345-1000
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Firm: Nixon Peabody LLP
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Nixon Peabody LLP


Years In Practice


Phone Number (617) 345-1000

Forrest Milder is one of our lead tax partners when it comes to tax credits and other tax-advantaged investments. He has a national practice that emphasizes the development of renewables, affordable housing, historic and new markets tax credit projects as well as resolving disputes with the IRS.

What do you focus on?

 

“Outside-the-box” solutions

My practice emphasizes structuring and bringing to closure many kinds of tax-advantaged projects, both for investors and those who need their investment. I have advised on an exceptionally wide range of ventures, with sizes from hundreds of thousands of dollars to hundreds of millions. I am especially known for “outside-the-box” solutions. For example, I developed a technique that facilitated more than one hundred million dollars of renewable facilities qualifying for government grants, even though the projects were nominally owned by the government and bond-financed. I enabled another client to obtain a more than $50 million state credit as the first user of a new program by working with the applicable agency even before it had published any rules.

IRS dispute resolution

I have resolved four different multi-million dollar disputes with the IRS with the taxpayer having zero liability, and several others with only minimal adjustments. On one occasion I worked with clients and others to get the applicable Tax Code provision changed, thereby ending the audit.

Tax-advantaged investment

I have worked with countless developers and investors to close hundreds of transactions involving the low-income housing tax credit, including everything from standard ventures to “80-20” deals and “lease pass-throughs” that also involve the historic tax credit. I have written tax opinions enabling a client with an innovative renewable technology to close more than $150 million of tax credit investments.

Industry thought leadership

I work hard to stay at the forefront of the industries in which I am involved. For example, I am very active in the Solar Energy Industry Association’s Tax Committee, and I authored part of its recent proposal to the IRS on the solar tax credit regulations. I’ve also written more than 60 published articles about renewable energy, including solar, geothermal, biomass, water-based, and wind. In addition, I am a former chair of both the American Bar Association’s 7,000-member Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development and the 3,000-member MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge. I’m the vice-chair of the historic tax credit coalition, and I was a major participant in helping to shape the IRS’s safe harbor on that credit. I’ve authored what is generally considered the best known treatise on housing and historic tax credits.

What legal services does this lawyer offer?
Tax Law
Awards
  • “Marquis’s Who’s Who in American Law”
  • Boston Magazine’s “Massachusetts Super Lawyers”
  • “New England Super Lawyers.”
Education
Graduated
Boston University, LL.M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SB
Contact Details and Office Locations
Office: (617) 345-1000
Exchange Place, 53 State Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02109-2835
Boston, Massachusetts 02109-2835
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