Forrest Milder

Nixon Peabody LLP

AHTCC Vice President

Forrest Milder is a partner with the law firm, Nixon Peabody LLP.  His practice emphasizes structuring and bringing to closure many kinds of tax-advantaged projects, both for investors and those who need their investment. He works on a wide range of ventures with an emphasis on low-income housing tax credits (LIHTC), renewable energy tax credits (RETC), historic tax credits (HTC), new markets tax credits (NMTC) and opportunity zones (OZ).   He is a very frequent speaker and writer on tax-credit issues, and he has given written and oral input to the IRS and Treasury on a wide range of topics relevant to tax equity.  Forrest has appeared many times on Bloomberg’s website, and on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (in its weekly “Tax Report” column), as well as in the Boston Globe, Banker & Tradesman, the Boston Business Journal, Mass High Tech, and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly with comments on recent and proposed tax legislation. He writes a regular column, entitled “The Current,” for the Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits, and he authored a BNA treatise on housing and rehabilitation tax credits.  He is a former chair of both the American Bar Association’s Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development and the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, and he taught legal research and writing at the Boston University Law School for several years.  He runs the Housing Forum’s well-known listserv, where more than a thousand professionals discuss the low-income housing tax credit and other housing and tax credit issues.